NLA 2004 Instructors
Leonard (Aryeh) Faltz is an Associate Professor in the Computer
Science & Engineering Department at Arizona State University. He has a Ph.D.
in Linguistics (1977) from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the
author of The Navajo Verb.
Ted Fernald is an Associate Professor in the Linguistics Department
at Swarthmore College near Philadelphia. He has a Ph. D. in Linguistics (1994)
from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He co-edited The Athabaskan Languages
with Paul Platero and Diné Bizaad Naalkaah/Navajo Language Investigations
with Ken Hale.
Elly van Gelderan is a Professor in the English Department
at Arizona State University. She has a Ph. D. in Linguistics (1986) from McGill
University. She has numerous publications on syntactic theory. She is also a
former participant of NLA.
Ellavina Tsosie Perkins is a Research Fellow of Swarthmore
College and the Navajo Language Academy funded by the National Science Foundation.
She has a Ph. D. (1978) from the University of Arizona.
Irene Silentman is a Senior Education Specialist at the Division
of Diné Education in Window Rock. She has an M. A. in Linguistics from
the University of Arizona. She is co-author of Situational Navajo and other
publications on Navajo education.
MaryAnn Willie is an Associate Professor at the University
of Arizona. She has a Ph. D. in Linguistics (1991) from the University of Arizona.
She is the author of numerous articles on Navajo grammar.
Other Researchers We May Have Access to as Speakers
The College of Eastern Utah campus has a number of Professionals/Researchers
who have done work on Navajo language and other aspects of Navajo culture whom
we may have access to. Some of them are:
Mr. Garth Wilson, research work on the Navajo language
Dr. Bob McPherson, research work on Navajo history
Mr. John Holliday, medicine man, working with Dr. McPherson
Dr. Brian Stubbs, linguist, Uto-Aztecan languages