ICLR Fellows Map
In addition to staff and students, the ICLR is supported by a network of International Advisory Fellows. Click on the map below to learn more about the fellows and their work in language education and revitalization. Meet the ICLR Advisory Fellows...
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Professor Elsa Stamatopoulou
Columbia University
Professor Stamatopoulou has devoted some 21 years of her UN work to human rights and served in various positions at the UN offices in Vienna, Geneva and New York. From 2003 to 2010 she was the
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Hana O’Regan
Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology
Hana O’Regan is the Dean of Te Puna Wānaka and the Director of Māori and Pasifika at the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology in Christchurch. Hana has long been committed to Māori
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Dr Wharehuia Milroy QSO
Te Panekiretanga o Te Reo Māori
Dr Wharehuia Milroy is one of three Directors of Te Panekiretanga o Te Reo Māori (School of Māori Language Excellence) by Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. Dr Milroy was a Professor of Māori at the University
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Dr Teresa McCarty
Center for Indian Education, Arizona State University
Dr Teresa McCarty is the Alice Wiley Snell Professor of Education Policy Studies, Professor of Applied Linguistics and co-Director of the Center for Indian Education at Arizona State University. An
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Dr Tīmoti Kāretu QSO
Te Panekiretanga o Te Reo Māori
Dr Tīmoti Kāretu is one of three Directors of Te Panekiretanga o Te Reo Māori (School of Māori Language Excellence) by Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. He is considered the master of the Māori language.
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Professor Ofelia Zepeda
American Indian Language Development Institute, University of Arizona
A renowned poet and linguist, Professor Zepeda is the Director of the American Indian Language Development Institute and is a Regents’ Professor of Linguistics in American Indian Studies at the
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Professor Noenoe Silva
Political Science Department, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
A Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian), Noenoe Silva is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her research interests include recovering
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Professor Mary-Eunice Romero
Center for Indian Education, Arizona State University
Dr. Romero-Little’s past and current research and scholarship reflect an unwavering desire to improve education for Native children, including the opportunity to learn their Native/heritage
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Professor Maria Polinsky
Harvard University
Maria Polinsky is a Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University. Polinsky’s work is at the intersection of theoretical syntax and study of cross-linguistic variation in sentence structure and
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Dr Daniel Kaufman
Endangered Languages Alliance
Dr Daniel Kaufman is a co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance in New York. As a linguist, Dr Kaufman has focused on languages of the Austronesian family in the Philippines and Indonesia and
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Dr Gabriela Perez-Baez
National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution
Dr. Gabriela Pérez Báez is Curator of Linguistics at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. Dr. Pérez Báez has conducted research on Zapotec languages since 2002. She has
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Professor Olga Kagan
Center for World Languages and National Heritage Language Resource Center
Professor Kagan is the Director of the Center for World Languages and the National Heritage Language Resource Center and Professor of the Russian Language Programme at UCLA. Her main research and
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Dr Karen Gayton Comeau
Lakhota Language Consortium
Karen Gayton Comeau (formerly Swisher) is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and is a leading researcher in the education field. Dr Comeau was the president of Haskell Indian Nations
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Peter Brand
First Voices, Canada
Peter Brand is the co-visionary and manager of FirstVoices.com, a suite of online First Nations language revitalization resources established in 2001 and administered by the First Peoples’
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Professor Ofelia Garcia
City University of New York
Ofelia Garcia is a Professor of Urban Education and Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Professor Garcia’s work in the
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Professor Juliette Blevins
City University of New York
Juliette Blevins is a Professor of Linguistics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Co-Director of the Endangered Language Alliance. Professor Blevins is an advocate for
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