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Jenny L. Davis                

Howard Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers & Borders                         http://spot.colorado.edu/~jennifed
Yale University
P.O. Box 208201                                                                                            Jennifer.L.Davis@yale.edu
New Haven, CT  06520-8201                                                                         (303) 319-6729
     

Employment:

2011-Present       Henry Roe Cloud Fellow
                            Howard Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers & Borders
                            Yale University
                                                                                                                                   
Education:
In Progress        Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder   
                          Graduate Certificate: Graduate Teaching Program


2007                  M.A. Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder
                          Graduate Certificate: Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP)

2005a                B.A. English, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater                                                                                                                                          
2005b                B.A. Spanish, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater

Additional Coursework:
2008                Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation
                        University of California, Santa Barbara
2002                Certificate of Hispanic Language and Culture
                        Universidad de Granada, Spain

Publications-Books:

Under contract    Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality. Lal Zimman, Jenny Davis,     
                           and Joshua Raclaw(eds.). Oxford University Press, Studies in Language and Gender.

Publications-Book Chapters, Journal Articles, & Proceedings: 

Under contract    Davis, Jenny, Lal Zimman, and Joshua Raclaw. Opposites attract: Retheorizing binaries in language, gender, and sexuality.
                            In Lal Zimman, Jenny Davis, and Joshua Raclaw (eds.). Oxford University Press, Studies in Language and Gender.

Under contract    "More than just 'gay' Indians'": Intersecting articulations of Two-Spirit gender, sexuality and indigenousness. In Lal Zimman,
                            Jenny Davis, and Joshua Raclaw (eds.), Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality.

Forthcoming        Adkins, Madeleine and Jenny Davis. The naïf, the sophisticate, and the party girl:  Regional and gender stereotypes in Breton
                            language web videos. Gender and Language.

2007a                  Criteria for the Manual Grouping of Verb Senses. Cecily Jill Duffield, Jena D. Hwang, Susan Windisch Brown, Dmitriy Dligach,
                            Sarah E.Vieweg, Jenny Davis, Martha Palmer. Proceedings of the Linguistic Annotation Workshop.Prague, June 28-29, 2007  

2007b.                 Criteria for Manual Clustering of Verb Senses. Cecily Jill Duffield, Jena D. Hwang, Susan Windisch Brown, Dmitriy Dligach,
                            Sarah E. Vieweg, Jenny Davis, Martha  Palmer. CogSci 2007: The 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
                            Nashville, Tennessee, August 1-4, 2007  

Grants and Awards:

Yale University
           Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Writing Fellowship (2011-2012)

University of Colorado at Boulder 
           The Best Should Teach University Teaching Award (2009)
           Fieldwork Grant, Dept. of Linguistics (2009)    
           Fieldwork Grant, Center for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the West (2009)  
           Graduate Student Travel Grant, Graduate School (2007, 2008)
           Conference Travel Grant, Dept. of Linguisitcs (2007, 2008, 2011)
           University GraduateFellowship (2007-2008)

Association of Feminist Anthropology, American Anthropological Association
           Zora Neale Hurston Travel Award (2009)

University of California, Santa Barbara   
           Infield Summer Institute Fellowship (2008)

National Science Foundation
           Travel Fellowship for IGALA Conference (2008, 2010)
           Honorable Metion, Graduate Student Fellowship (2008)

Chickasaw Nation
        Chickashsha Holisoplichi Award (2007)
        Outstanding Scholar Grant, ('05, '06, '07, '08, '09, '10)
        Higher Education Grant  ('05, '06, '07,'08, '09, '10)


Invited talks:

"Chickasha anompa meets Aerospace Technology and gourmet chocolates: Tribal enterprise and language revitalization in the
Chickasaw Nation. Invited talk for Native American Languages in the 21st Century lecture series. Department of Linguistics,
University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY. April 1, 2011

"Sibling Rivalry: Ideological Differentiations of Chickasaw and Choctaw"  Invited talk for panel 'Dual Footings: Native scholars, native linguistics'     13th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL). University of California, Santa Barbara; Santa Barbara, CA. May, 2010

Conference Presentations:

"If You Want to be Correct You'd Call Us By Our Tribe": Two-Spirit Articulations of Indigenousness and Alterity"
Paper Presentation, 12/2009, American Anthropology Association (AAA) Conference, Philidelphia, PA

"Chikashsha Anumpali': Negotiating Expertise and Status in the Chickasaw Master/Apprentice Program," 
Paper presentation, 11/2008, American Anthropology Association (AAA) Conference, San Francisco, CA

"'He is a beautiful woman': Two-Spirit Negotiations of Gender and Sexuality"                                                                                                    
Paper Presentation,  7/2008
International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) 5, Wellington, New Zealand

"Now introducing 'Grass in her hair': Delineating Native, Gay, and Two-Spirit in Drag performances"                                                            
Paper Presentation, 5/2008 
Arizona Linguistics and Anthropology Symposium, Tucson, Arizona                 

“Of Two Worlds: Identity Negotiation in the Narratives of Two-Spirits ”
Paper Presentation, 11/2007                                                                                                                                                                                       
American Anthropologist Association (AAA) Conference, Washington, D.C.

"Criteria for the Manual Grouping of Verb Senses" 
Linguistic Annotation Workshop, Prague, Association for Computational Linguistics,  3/2007                                                                             
with Duffield, C.J., Hwang, J.D., Brown, S.W., Dligach, D., Vieweg, S.E., & Palmer, M. 

“The Berdache Were Gay?: Discursive Reframing of Native American Gender Variance
Paper Presentation,   2/2007                                                                                                                                                                                     
Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference American University, Washington D.C.

“The Only Difference Between You and A Gay Guy: Redefining Heteronormativity in the Discourse of Metrosexuals” 
Paper Presentation,  11/2006                                                                                                                                                                                  
American Anthropologist Association (AAA) Conference San Jose, CA

Teaching Positions: 

University of Colorado, Graduate Teacher Program
        Lead Graduate Instructor, Dept. of Linguistics (2008-2009)

University of Colorado at Boulder, Dept. of Linguistics
        LING 1000: Language In US Society 
                  Instructor of Record: Fall '07, Fall '08, Spr. '10    
                  Teaching Assistant: Fall '09 (for Lal Zimman)

        LING 1900: Literacy Practicum 
                   Instructor of record Fall '07                                                                                                         

        LING 2400: Language and Gender
                  Teaching Assistant Spr. '09 (for Kira Hall)                                                                                                                              
University of Colorado at Boulder, Upward Bound Program   
        Creative Writing 
                   Lecturer: Sum. '06
        ACT Prep: English   
                   Lecturer: Sum. '06      
        Spanish I
                   Lecturer: Sum. '10                                                                                                                

Oklahoma State University, School of Journalism and Broadcasting
         JB 2003: Media, Style & Structure                                                                                                                                Lab Instructor &Teaching Assistant: Spr. '05

Research Experience: 

Research Assistant: Fall '07-Sum. '11
Dr. Kira Hall
University of Colorado at Boulder; Boulder, CO

Editorial Assistant:
Hall, Kira, ed. (2007). Studies in Indian Folk Traditions: Collected Writings of Ved Prakash Vatuk. 
Meerut, India: Archana Publications. 

Hall, Kira, ed. (2007). Studies in Inequality and Social Justice: Festschrift for Ved Prakash Vatuk. 
Meerut, India. Archana Publications. 

Intern: Sum. '07        
Master/Apprentice Program Development
Chickasaw Nation Language Maintenance Program  
Chickasaw Nation Headquarters; Ada, OK

Team Leader/ Grouper: VSAP (Verb Sense Annotation Project): Fall '05-Sum. '07
Dr. Martha Palmer, Dept. of Cognitive Science
University of Colorado at Boulder; Boulder, CO

Research Assistant: Fall '03- Spr. '05
Dr. Laura Belmonte                                                                                                                                 
Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights Oral History Project; Tulsa, OK


Academic Service:

Graduate Student Representative: IGALA Advisory Council (2008-2011)
Abstract Reviewer: IGALA 5 ('07)
Conference Organizer: Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP) Conference (Oct. '07)
Panel Chair: CLASP Conference "Language and Ethnicity" Panel
President: University of Colorado Linguistic Association (CULA) '06/'08
Faculty Liason: CULA '05/'06

Organization Membership:

 Linguistic Society Association (LSA)
American Anthropology Association (AAA)
American Dialect Society (ADS)
Intertribal Wordpath Society
Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA)
International Gender and Language Association (IGALA)

Languages: 

Spanish: non-Native near fluent
Italian, Portuguese: Moderate Reading Proficiency 
Old English, Chickasaw, Choctaw: Structural Knowledge