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Charlotte Macorn Interview, January 21, 2025
No full textCharlotte Macorn (they/she) moved to Hillsboro, Oregon, in 2024 with their wife, Bree Sutherland, after living in Montana for 40 years. They studied Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) and African American Studies at the University of Montana. After earning their degrees, Charlotte returned to the university as a teacher for WGSS classes. While in Missoula they worked as a stand-up comedian, one of the first openly queer comedians, and started drag wrestling. Charlotte recalls a vacation to Seattle with Bree that really influenced their decision to leave Montana and move to Oregon. While in Oregon, they describe the much more accepting and comfortable atmosphere, compared to Montana.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/queermontana_oralhistories/1011/thumbnail.jp
Suba-Cubun Chibquyioa Muysc-Cubun Chibchichuasuca: Sound Reconstruction of Muysca in the Context of Language Reclamation.
No full textThis thesis examines the phonological system of Muysca, a Chibchan language once spoken in central Colombia and currently dormant. Its goal includes supporting the revitalization efforts of the Muysca people of Suba. Drawing from a documentation produced in the 17th century by Catholic missionaries and engaging with comparative and historical linguistic methods, I argue for the existence of specific phonemes in Muysca —/ə/, /kʷ/, /tʲ/, and /ʔ/— which are not consistently identified in recent literature. My analysis is situated within the framework of Mediated Language Change (Hinson 2019), which acknowledges the need for Indigenous communities to actively shape the development of revitalized varieties of their ancestral languages. This thesis begins by contextualizing the missionary sources and their limitations, including the cultural and linguistic biases from the documenters who were second-language learners. The prescriptive of these researchers at that time tended to lack the important components in language documentation such as spontaneous discourse and sociolinguistic variations. Despite these challenges, the thesis provides reconstruction of the sound system of Muysca through comparison with related Chibchan languages and typological reasoning, especially when genetic data is limited. Although I do not attempt a full reconstruction of Muysca\u27s phonology, I propose a revised account of selected phonemes and outline synchronic phonological rules, as well as diachronic sound changes from Proto-Chibchan to Muysca. I also highlight practical decisions made for Suba-cubun —a revitalized variety of Muysca currently being developed and taught in Suba—, which reflect the linguistic needs of a living community. This thesis contributes to the fields of historical linguistics and documentary linguistics by addressing the challenges of reconstructing a sound system from a formant language with orthographic notation with some problematics aspects. It underscores the importance of balancing scholarly rigor with community-driven language reclamation. This thesis, as a result, supports the development of future educational resources and aims to inspire continued research that bridges academic investigation and Indigenous revitalization efforts
Research on Civic Education, the Declaration of Independence, and American Democracy
No full textThe UGP small grant I received in Spring 2024 made it possible for me to make an extended research trip to Oxford, England in Spring 2025, while I was on sabbatical. While at Oxford, I held two appointed fellowships (non-stipendiary) at St Anne’s College and the Rothermere American Institute, where I undertook research for two projects
GLI Weekly, November 18, 2025
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Things we know, and things we do not, about knots
No full textIn this talk, by knots I will mean circles embedded in three-dimensional space. I’ll start with background and some history, spend some time on knot invariants, then turn to the geometric perspective on knot complements that was introduced by Thurston around 1980. Along the way, I’ll mention some significant open questions in the subject. I’ll finish by discussing recent progress on a couple of geometric questions, on hidden symmetries of and totally geodesic surfaces in hyperbolic knot complements
