HARTWELL S. FRANCIS
Western Carolina University
Dept. Anthropology and Sociology
McKee 101
Cullowhee, NC 287203
office: hfrancis@email.wcu.edu
home: hfrancislngst@gmail.com
tel: (828) 227-2303
fax: (828) 227-7061
Research and teaching interests
Cherokee and Arapaho languages, Native American languages, languages of small populations,
verb structure, language curriculum development, dictionary development, electronic media,
language loss and language invigoration
Current Position
Director, Cherokee Language Program, 2006 to Present
Western Carolina University, Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Develop Cherokee language program
Establish and maintain relationships with speakers of Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Instruct courses in language, linguistics, and anthropology
Recruit elementary education professionals for language revitalization
Develop and complete language/culture documentation projects
Community outreach, including websites, workshops, symposia, and conferences
Plan and maintain program budget
Secure funding for program continuation
Education
Ph.D., Linguistics, 2006
University of Colorado at Boulder
Dissertation: Transitivity in Arapaho: A Construction Grammar Approach
• Arapaho verb inflected for single distinguished argument
• Distinguished argument determined by animacy and discourse status
• Arapaho verb is inflected for semantic role of distinguished argument
• Stem structure defines clusters of semantically related verbs
Advisors: Drs. Laura A. Michaelis (chair) and Andrew Cowell
M.A., Linguistics, 2000
University of Colorado at Boulder
M.A., Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, 1994
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
Thesis: Prepositions in Engineering Textbooks
Advisor: Dr. Jeanette DeCarico
B.A., Spanish, Latin American Studies Minor, 1990
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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Fellowships and grants
Cherokee Language Revitalization Initiative Grant
Cherokee Preservation Foundation. 2007-2015
Principal officer (2009-2015)
Dr. Jane Eastman, principal officer (2007-2008)
Grants for Cherokee language revitalization WCU/Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians partnership.
Close coordination with EBCI required.
Visiting Scholar, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Research on Cherokee language print and manuscript materials. Assisted in creation of finding
aid for Cherokee language materials. 2013
Thomas Edwin Devaney Dissertation Fellowship
Center for Humanities and the Arts Graduate Fellow. 2003-2004
IMPART Award
Documentation and description of Chiwere (Iowa-Oto; Siouan language family)
Dr. David S. Rood, principal investigator. 2001
Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant
The development of vernacular literacy in Mexico. 2000
University Fellowship
The Graduate School of the University of Colorado, Boulder. 1998-1999
Research
Finding Aid, Cherokee Manuscripts at the Beinecke Library
Guide to the Kilpatrick Collection of Cherokee Manuscripts
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT
http://drs.library.yale.edu/fedora/get/beinecke:kilpatrick/PDF (accessed 9/8/2015)
Lisa Conathan and Hartwell Francis
High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship
Participant in HiPSTAS 2013-2014 sound archiving, accessing, and study
http://blogs.ischool.utexas.edu/hipstas/about/ (accessed 9/8/2015)
hosted at The School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin
Lexical Subjects Project Research Assistantship
Linguistics Department, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1998-1999
Dr. Laura A. Michaelis, principal investigator.
Corpus of English conversations examined for occurrences of lexical subjects.
Teaching
University Teaching
Anthropology and
Sociology Department,
Western Carolina
University
Introduction to Master/Apprentice Language Learning: Language
learning approach pairs adult learners with fluent native speaker.
Linguistic Anthropology: Survey of the motivations and
methodology for the study of language and its relationship to
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culture and society.
Language Death: Fully on-line course. Study of widespread
language disappearance that coincides with increasing
globalization.
Modern Foreign
Languages Department,
Western Carolina
University
Cherokee 101 – Cherokee Speaking World: Fully on-line course.
Introduction to Cherokee language.
Cherokee 132 - Second semester beginning Cherokee: Fully on-line
course.
Cherokee 310 - Introduction to Cherokee Language Literature:
course on history and texts of written Cherokee language.
Cherokee 351 – Cherokee Grammar: Survey of grammar of the
Cherokee language.
Linguistics Department,
University of Colorado at
Boulder
Language in U.S. Society: Survey the uses of language in the
United States. Emphasis on language as a social institution.
Summer 2003, Summer 2000
Written Composition: Develop written communication of
intermediate speakers of English as an additional language.
Emphasis on academic genres of English. Fall 2001
Literacy Practicum: Place undergraduate students in community
literacy programs. Spring 2000
Teaching Assistantships
Linguistics Department,
University of Colorado at
Boulder
Introduction to Linguistics: Introduce the study of languages as
structural systems and linguistics as a science. Spring 2001
Language and Gender: Introduces the study of the interaction
between gender and language. Spring 2001
Language in U.S. Society: Survey the uses of language in the
United States. Emphasis on language as a social institution.
Virtual TA via WebCT. Fall 1999, Spring 2000
English Language
Instructor
International English Center, Boulder, CO, 1999
Nova International Institute, Fukuoka, Japan, 1996
Suzuki World Academy, Kyoto, Japan, 1995
Instituto Mexicano NorteAmericano de Relaciones Culturales de
Saltillo, A.C., 1995
Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, OR, 1993
Hall Laboratories, Inc., Portland, OR, 1993
Amherst School District, Amherst, MA, 1997
Guest Lectures
Compromised Expressive Events: Assessing Cherokee Texts
Hockett's Design Features of Language
Arapaho Verb Structure
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Syntactic Structures in Arapaho Texts
Writing Systems
Mesoamerican Picture Books and Hieroglyphics
Alphabet Books for Literacy Development
Multimedia
First Language: The
Race to Save Cherokee
Cherokee Language Wiki
Kituwah Preservation
and Education Program
Wiki
Facebook.com/
WCUCherokeeLanguage
Cherokee Syllabary App
Set of Pages of
The Arapaho Project
Associate producers Hartwell Francis and Tom Belt. Featurelength documentary produced by Neal Hutcheson and Danica
Cullinan through The NC Language and Life Project. Walt
Wolfram, executive producer.
Wiki for distribution of Cherokee language learning video files,
sound files, texts files, internet links, and other media.
http://cherokeelanguage.wcu (9/8/15 access)
Wiki for Western Carolina University Cherokee language
revitalization partner Kituwah Preservation and Education Program.
https://media.wcu.edu/groups/kpep/ (defunct)
Social media outreach for Cherokee language program promotion
and Cherokee language education. (9/8/15 access)
Sginohisi Gohusdi 'Talk to Me' digital application for Cherokee
writing system memorization.
Early experimentation with electronic media. (9/8/15 access)
http://www.colorado.edu/csilw/arapahoproject/
language/wm_ducks_apr_26_04/wm_ducks_home.html
Publications
Hartwell Francis, Tanya Clement, Gena Peone, Brian Carpenter, and Kristen Suagee-Beauduy.
Accessing Sound at Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Under review. In Indigenous
Ownership & Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Loriene Roy, Camille Callison, and
Gretchen LeChemiant, eds.
Margaret Bender, Thomas Belt, and Hartwell Francis. Under review. Beyond Indigeneity and
Globalization: Reoccupation of the Cherokee Homeland. In Legacies of "Time
Immemorial" In Native North America: Continuity, Creativity, And Emergent SelfDetermination. B. Perley, ed. University of Nebraska Press.
Laura A. Michaelis and Hartwell S. Francis. 2007. Lexical Subjects and the Conflation Strategy.
The Grammar- Pragmatics Interface: Papers in Honor of Jeanette K. Gundel, ed. by N.
Hedberg and R. Zacharski. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Hartwell S. Francis, Michele L. Gregory, and Laura A. Michaelis. 1999. Are lexical subjects
deviant? Chicago Linguistic Society 35.85-97.
Scholarly presentations
The Promise of Technology: Packaging Language Learning in the Digital Age, 6th Language
Revitalization Symposium, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC. 6/23/11.
Cherokee Language in its Environment, North Carolina Folklore Society, Chapel Hill, NC.
4/2/11. Tom Belt, co-presenter.
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Cherokee Language Constructions for Situating Entities and Events in Space, Oklahoma
Workshop on Native American Languages, Tahlequah, OK. 4/18/09.
The Grammar of it All: Cherokee Grammatical Knowledge as the Basis for Cherokee Language
Instruction, 4th Annual Cherokee Language Symposium, Cherokee, NC. 6/5/08.
Developing Cherokee Language Texts for Instruction, with Thomas Belt and Nannie Taylor.
Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America, Salt Lake City,
Utah. 3/29/08.
Stimulating Interaction with Pictures: Data Collection and Lesson Development, with Thomas
Belt and Nannie Taylor. Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native
America, Salt Lake City, Utah. 4/11/07.
Developing and Utilizing Arapaho Language Learning Materials, with Wayne C'Hair. The
Northern Arapaho Language Symposium. Lander, WY. 5/26/06.
The use of pictures for teaching words and sentence structure, with Wayne C'Hair. The Northern
Arapaho Language Symposium. Lander, WY. 5/27/06.
Secondary derivation in Arapaho. The 37th Algonquian Conference. Ottawa, Ontario. 10/25/05
Universal transitivity: Evidence from Arapaho. The 6th High Desert Linguistics Conference.
Albuquerque, NM. 11/5/04
Preverbs in Arapaho. The 35th Algonquian Conference. London, Ontario. 10/24/03.
Chiwere word classes, with co-author Armik Mirzayan. The 21st Annual Siouan and Caddoan
Languages Conference. Chicago, Il. 6/15/01.
Orthographic choices: Developing literature in language minority communities. The XXIX
Annual International Conference of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest. Pueblo,
Mexico. 10/15/00.
Are lexical subjects deviant?, with co-authors Michele L. Gregory and Laura A. Michaelis. The
35th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago, IL. 5/24/99.
Formal consequences of a marked syntactic choice: Morphosyntactic properties of lexical
subjects in English conversation, with co-authors Michele L. Gregory and Laura A.
Michaelis. Ninth annual meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Vancouver,
B.C. 8/16/99.
Does Lakhota have a subject? The 18th annual Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference.
Bloomington, IN. 5/29/98.
Professional Development
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Participation in Western Carolina University Coulter Faculty Center programs and events
Participation in the Graduate Teaching Program, University of Colorado
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Linguistic Institute 1999 at the University of Illinois
Academic service
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Participant and recorder of Cherokee Nation-Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Cherokee
Language Consortium, institution for developing Cherokee language K-6 instructional
materials
Cohost, co-coordinator, and co-producer (with EBCI Kituwah Preservation and
Education Program) of Annual Language Revitalization Symposium, Cherokee, NC and
Cullowhee, NC (2007-2011)
Working to establish Cherokee language exam for certification of education professionals
Working to establish Cherokee Language High School I and II course work for college
track students
Colorado University Linguistics Association, Treasurer, 2000, President, 1999.
Student Representative, Faculty Hiring Committee, Department of Linguistics, CU, 2002
Peer mentor, CU Linguistics Department, 2002
Athlete Tutoring, CU, 2001
Community involvement
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Sponsor and Host of Cherokee Speakers Breakfast/Lunch (2008-2015), weekly Cherokee
language recording event
Attendance, participation, and recording Cherokee Speakers Gathering, monthly
Cherokee language event
Developed, found funding for, and managed Native American Expo Poster Art Contest
Consultant and guest speaker in area high school Cherokee language programs
City of Boulder, CO At-Risk Youth mentor, Capoeira class assistant 2001
Canto do Galo Capoeira Batizado, Boulder and Denver, CO, Treasurer 2001, 2002