Santa Cruz fieldworkers at the SSILA Annual Meeting

PhD students Myke Brinkerhoff and Maya Wax Cavallaro co-organized a session on “Engaging the Community: Using Field Methods Classes for Community Outreach,” with linguists at UC Santa Barbara, at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) in late January.

The organized session included presentations and discussions by current graduate students Jack Duff, Delaney Gomez-Jackson, Matthew Kogan, and Claire Miller Willahan, recent alumnus Andrew Hedding (PhD, 2022), Professor Maziar Toosarvandani, and their language expert collaborators Raúl Diaz, Natalia Gracida Cruz, and Fe Silva Robles.

A highlight of the organized session were two hands-on tutorials for creating computer games as a tool for language teaching and revitalization, led by Andrew, Jack, Matthew, and Myke, and a workshop on creating bi-/trilingual storybooks and audiobooks, led by Delaney, Jack, Maya, Myke, and Raúl.

The slides and materials from the event can be found on the organized session website.