Engaging the Community:
Using Field Methods Classes for Community Outreach


Welcome to the homepage for SSILA 2023's Special Session. You will find links to all of our slides, handouts, and tutorials here.

To learn more about everyone that took part in this Special Session please click the About us link above.

Join us on Discord too: https://discord.gg/djEEQ3w9

Complete abstract.pdf

Read the complete abstract (with references) for this special session here

This work would not have been possible without everyone who has helped us along the way! Acknowledgements:

Celia Bautista, Guillermo Martínez López, Fe Silva-Robles, Raul Diaz Robles, Natalia Garcida Cruz, and many more for sharing their language with us.

Alejandro Miguel Aguilar, Deyanira López Santiago, Emerson Zárate, Luis Alberto Bonilla, Luis Fernando Bautista and Xóchitl Guzmán Juárez for their collaboration with the Ka'vi Sà'án Sàvǐ project.

Claudia Salazar and Verónica Aguilar for recording in Yucunani on our behalf during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Salustia Ávila, Javier Garcia, Abigail Hernández, José Mendoza, y Nayra Pacheco for the ongoing Glosario Indigena project. Herminia Cortez, Leticia Santiago Velasco, Karina Aragón, Ana Huynh y Judith I. Sánchez for their contributions to the Glosario Indigena project.

Mixteco Indígena Community Organizing Project (MICOP)

Herencia Indígena

Senderos and Nido de Lenguas

Prof. John Du Bois, Terry Du Bois, and Brady Moore for their feedback on the Catch Game.

Everyone at the UCSB Field Methods Class 2015/16: Griselda Reyes Basurto, Anna Bax, Eric W. Campbell, Caroline Crouch, Daniel Hieber, Katharine Jan, Jessica Love-Nichols, Kayla Palakurthy, Simon L. Peters, Phillip Rogers, Kevin Schäfer, Nathaniel Sims, Morgan Sleeper, and Brendon Yoder.

Everyone at the UCSB Field Methods Class 2017/18: Carmen Hernández Martínez, Sandra Auderset, Chris Brendel, Eric W. Campbell, Yi-Yang Cheng, Alexia Z. Fawcett, Julia Fine, Simon L. Peters, Adrienne Tsikewa, and Albert Ventayol-Boada.

Everyone at the UCSB Field Methods Class 2019/20: Jeremías Salazar, Saleem Alfaife, Guillem Belmar, Eric W. Campbell, Pingping Ge, Gabriel Mendoza, Jesús Olguín Martínez, Griselda Reyes Basurto, Catherine Scanlon, and Alonso Vásquez-Aguilar.

Everyone at the UCSB Field Methods Class 2021/22: Martín Gabriel Ruiz, Guillem Belmar, Eric W. Campbell, Jordan Douglas-Tavani, Ryan Ka Yau Lai, James Yee and Chun-Jan Young.

UCSB Research Assistants: Katie Lydon, Lily Yin & Dingyan Zhou

UCSC Research Assistants: Yatziri Arias Torres, Brianda Caldera Jacob Chemnick, Mikayla Falk, Chris Garcia, Brittney Johnson, Azusena Orozco, Sabrina Tran, Alissa Trowbridge

Everyone at the UCSC Field Methods Class 2016: Fe Silva-Robles, Jake Vincent, Jeff Adler, Tom Roberts, Steven Foley, Jed Pizarro-Guevara, Nate Clair, Lauren McGarry, Maho Morimoto, Chelsea Miller, Kelsey Sasaki

Everyone at the UCSC Field Methods Class 2018: Natalia Gracida Cruz, Andrew Hedding, Andrew Angeles, Jeremie Beauchamp, Richard Bibbs, Ben Eischens

Everyone at the UCSC Field Methods Class 2020: Fe Silva-Robles, Myke Brinkerhoff, Jack Duff, Stephanie Rich, Max Kaplan, Dan Brodkin, Maya Wax Cavallaro, Vishal Arvindam, Anelia Kudin

Everyone at the UCSC Field Methods Class 2022: Natalia Gracida Cruz, Ryan Bennett, Delaney Gomez-Jackson, Andrew Hedding, Benjamin Eischens, David Tuffs, Eli Sharf, Jonathan Paramore, Jun Tamura, Matthew Kogan, Sophia Stremel

NSF award #1660355 and #2019804; UCSB Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant; Jacobs Research Funds (Whatcom Museum Foundation, Bellingham, Washington USA); Foundation for Endangered Languages; Language Legacies Grant (Endangered Language Fund, MKARL Funding, International Phonetic Association Funding); Fund for Santa Barbara; The Humanities Institute at UCSC