LaVerne Masayesva Jeanne
Alma materPhD, MIT
Known forWork on the Hopi language, endangered languages. One of the first two Native Americans to have received a degree in linguistics.
Scientific career
FieldsAnthropologist and linguist
InstitutionsUniversity of Nevada at Reno
Academic advisorsKen Hale

LaVerne Masayesva Jeanne is an anthropologist and linguist at the University of Nevada at Reno, where she is an emerita associate professor.[1]

She received her PhD at MIT in 1978, where she studied with linguist Ken Hale.[2] Together with MIT her classmate Navajo Paul R. Platero, Jeanne is one of the first two Native Americans to have received a PhD degree in linguistics.[3]

Her work has been primarily focused on the Hopi language (her mother language). Her 1978 thesis (supervised by Hale) was entitled Aspects of Hopi Grammar.[4] She also co-authored a heavily cited article in Language with Hale, Michael Krauss, Colette Craig, and others on the state of endangered languages.[5] She was also involved with Hopi revitalization projects.[6][7][8]

References

  1. ^ "LaVerne Masayesva -Jeanne - Anthropology". sites.unr.edu. University of Nevada, Reno. Archived from the original on 26 April 2011. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
  2. ^ "Alumni and their Dissertations – MIT Linguistics". linguistics.mit.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  3. ^ Woo, Elaine (2001-10-24). "Kenneth Hale, 67; Legendary Linguist". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  4. ^ Jeanne, LaVerne Masayesva (1978). Aspects of Hopi grammar (Thesis) (Thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/16325. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
  5. ^ Hale, K.; M. Krauss; L. J Watahomigie; A. Y Yamamoto; C. Craig; L. V.M Jeanne; N. C England (1992). "Endangered languages". Language. 68 (1): 1–42. doi:10.2307/416368. JSTOR 416368.
  6. ^ "First Things First - October 2013 Newsletter". www.azftf.gov. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  7. ^ "Keeping the Hopi language alive". Navajo-Hopi Observer News. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  8. ^ "A Final Report on Hopi Lavayi Early Childhood Assessment Project for the Coconino Regional Partnership Council and the Hopi Tribal Council" (PDF). 2013.


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