Colleen Fitzgerald
{{short description|American linguist}}
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Colleen M. Fitzgerald is an American linguist who specializes in phonology, as well as language documentation and revitalization, especially with Native American languages.{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=u-El9toAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao|title=Colleen M. Fitzgerald - Google Scholar Citations|website=scholar.google.se|access-date=2017-09-03}}
Career and research
She earned her doctorate in linguistics in 1997 at the University of Arizona.{{Cite web|url=https://linguistics.arizona.edu/node/699|title=Alumni, 1974-to Present {{!}} The Department of Linguistics|website=linguistics.arizona.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-09-03}} Her dissertation focused on prosody in Tohono O'odham, an Uto-Aztecan language.University of Arizona UA Campus Repository, http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/288889 She has published on Tohono O'odham, as well as other languages. Her other publications are on the topic of service learning in linguistics, including in indigenous language revitalization courses.
Fitzgerald is the Vice President for Research and Creative Activity at North Dakota State University. Previously she was Associate Vice President for research at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi,{{Cite web |last=Christi |first=Texas A&M University-Corpus |title=Staff Directory Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi |url=https://research.tamucc.edu/staff_research.html |access-date=2021-03-08 |website=Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi |language=en}} and Professor in the Department of Linguistics and TESOL{{Cite web |title=Department of Linguistics and TESOL Faculty |url=http://www.uta.edu/utamagazine/archive-issues/2010-13/2011/11/department-of-linguistics-and-tesol-faculty/}}{{cite web |title=The Department of Linguistics & TESOL at UT Arlington |url=http://www.uta.edu/linguistics |publisher=}} the University of Texas at Arlington where she directed the Native American Languages Lab.{{cite web |title=Native American Languages of the Southwest - Linguistics |url=http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz/swnal |publisher=}} She formerly served as chair of the department.{{Cite web |title=Project aims to protect vanishing language |url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/06/06/Project-aims-to-protect-vanishing-language/21481307380560/}}
Fitzgerald served as Director of the 2014 Institute on Collaborative Research,{{Cite web|url=http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2012/jul/08/institute-aims-keep-languages-alive/|title = Institute aims to keep languages alive}} or CoLang 2014.Native Times, 02 June 2014, http://www.nativetimes.com/index.php/culture/9988-ut-arlington-to-host-international-conference-on-native-american-language{{cite web|url=http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz/swnal/projects/CoLang/|title=CoLang- Projects with Native American Languages of the Southwest - Linguistics & TESOL - UT Arlington|publisher=}} This was the fourth iteration of this international training workshop in language documentation and revitalization.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=121353&org=PHY&from=news|title = Federal Agencies Take Action to Digitally Document Nearly 50 Endangered Languages}} With linguist Mary Linn, she co-directed the 2012 and 2014 Oklahoma Breath of Life Workshops.{{cite web|url=http://nal.publishpath.com/okbol|title=Breath of Life|work=Native American Languages}}
Honors and distinctions
In 2021, Fitzgerald was inducted both as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and as Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.{{cite web |title=2021 AAAS Fellows {{!}} American Association for the Advancement of Science |url=https://www.aaas.org/page/2021-fellows |website=www.aaas.org |access-date=12 March 2022 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Linguistic Society of America List of Fellows by Year |url=https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/lsa-fellows-year-induction |access-date=11 March 2022}} In 2017 she was an invited plenary speaker at the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, talking on, "The Sounds of Indigenous Language Revitalization."Linguist Society of America, http://www.linguisticsociety.org/session/invited-plenary-address-colleen-fitzgerald
From 2015 to 2019 Fitzgerald served as the program director for the Documenting Endangered Languages program at the National Science Foundation.{{Cite web |title=Colleen Fitzgerald {{!}} NSF - National Science Foundation |url=https://www.nsf.gov/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=cfitzger&org=NSF&from_org= |access-date=2016-07-08 |website=www.nsf.gov}}
Selected publications
- Fitzgerald, Colleen. 1997. O'odham Rhythms. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Arizona.
- Fitzgerald, Colleen. 1998. The Meter of Tohono O'odham Songs. International Journal of American Linguistics 64: 1-36.
- Fitzgerald, Colleen. 1999. Loanwords and Stress in Tohono O'odham. Anthropological Linguistics 41: 1-33.
- Fitzgerald, Colleen. 2000. Vowel Hiatus and Faithfulness in Tohono O'odham Reduplication. Linguistic Inquiry 31: 713-722.
- Fitzgerald, Colleen. 2002. Tohono O'odham Stress in a Single Ranking. Phonology 19:253-271.
- Fitzgerald, Colleen. 2010. [https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818X.2010.00196.x Developing a Service-Learning Curriculum for Linguistics]. Language and Linguistics Compass 4:4, 204-218.
- Fitzgerald, Colleen M. & Joshua D. Hinson. 2013. 'Ilittibatoksali 'We work together': Perspectives on Our Chickasaw Tribal-Academic Collaboration, in Norris, Mary Jane, Erik Anonby, Marie-Odile Junker, Nicholas Ostler & Donna Patrick (eds.), FEL Proceedings XVII (Ottawa, 2013) FEL XVII: Endangered Languages Beyond Boundaries: Community Connections, Collaborative Approaches, and Cross-Disciplinary Research. 53-60. Bath, England: The Foundation for Endangered Languages.
- Fitzgerald, Colleen M. & Mary S. Linn. 2013. [https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/4596 Training Communities, Training Graduate Students: The 2012 Oklahoma Breath of Life Workshop]. Language Documentation and Conservation 7: 185-206.
References
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External links
- [https://www.colleenfitzgerald.org/ Colleen Fitzgerald webpage]
- [http://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/lsa-member-spotlight/mar14 Colleen Fitzgerald (Linguistic Society of America Member Spotlight)]
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Category:Linguists from the United States
Category:University of Arizona alumni
Category:Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Category:Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America
Category:University of Texas at Arlington faculty