David J. Dwyer Page 1

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. David J. Dwyer (February 2, 2007)

MichiganStateUniversity

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology,Linguistics and African Studies

Coordinator: African Language Program

Ph.D., Linguistics,MichiganStateUniversity1973; BA.Anthropology1963, University of Michigan

I. PUBLICATIONS

Books and Journals

1993A Fulfulde (Masina) - English - French Lexicon: A Root-Based Compilation Drawn from Extant Sources Followed by English-Fulfulde and French-Fulfulde Listings. With Donald Osborn and Joseph Donohoe Jr. Michigan State University Press: East Lansing. ISBN 0-87013-326-8 (700 pages).

1985Proceedings of the Conference on African Language Materials Guidelines (Draft Version), African Studies Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan and ERIC Clearing House.

1981A Learner Directed Approach to Lorma (with P. Bodegie and J. Baque). East Lansing: African Studies Center, Michigan State University.

1981A Reference Handbook of Lorma. East Lansing: African Studies Center, Michigan State University.

1966The Introduction to West African Pidgin English. With David Smith. East Lansing; MichiganStateUniversityAfricanStudiesCenter.

Peace and Justice Studies

2005“Courtrooms and College Campuses inside the NationalSecurityState”. With Anabel Dwyer, CooleyLawSchool. Chapter 11 In Democracy’s Shadow. Marcus G. Raskin, A. Carl LeVan (eds). Institute for Policy Studies: WashingtonDC. 2005.

Anthropology

1990Competence, Representations, Rules, and Inquiry. Reviews in Anthropology 19:117-128. 1990

1986What are chimpanzees telling us about language? Lingua 69:219-44.

1986The power of words. The Michigan Connection, The Michigan Council for the humanities, 8, 20.

1993 Becoming an Anthropological Linguist. In Anthropologists and the Peace Corps: Case Studies in Career Preparation. Brian E. Schwimmer and D. Michael Warren editors. IowaStateUniversity Press: Ames. Pp. 43-49. ISBN 0-8138-0493-0.

African Linguistics

2005The Mende Problem. Studies in African Comparative Linguistics with Special Focus on Bantu and Mande. Koen Bostoen and Jackmy Maniacky (eds). Tervuren, Belgum: RoyalMuseum for Central Africa. Pp 29-42.

2002Primary and Grammaticalized Ideophones, with Lioba Moshi. Journal of the African Language Teachers Association. 2002.

1998The Place of Mande in Niger-Congo. Language history and linguistic description in Africa. (Ian Maddieson and Thomas J. Hinnebusch (eds.). Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press.

1994Is there tone splitting in Bobo? Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 15.1:29-45.

1989Chapter 2: Mande. Niger-Congo (J. Bendor-Samuel ed.). University Press of America. pp 47-65.

1985The Evolutionary Morphology of Southwestern Mande Definite Articles. Current Approaches to African Linguistics. G. Dimmendaal, Ed.). Dordrecht; Foris Publishers. Chapter 12:149-70.

1985A Segmental, Automatic View of Mende Downstep. Studies in African Linguistics, supplement 9:90-94.

1982Loma, a Language with Inverted Tones, Anthropological Linguistics, December: 436-442.

1979What Sort of a Tone Language is Mende?" Studies in African Linguistics, 9.2:167-200.

1978Idiosyncratic, Suprasegmental Tone Processes in Mende, in Studies in African Linguistics, 9.3:333-43.

1976The goals of a Linguistic Description," in Problems in Linguistic Metatheory, R. Saenz, ed. East Lansing: Department of Linguistics, Michigan State University, 73-115.

1975Convergence and Basic Vocabulary: Some Interesting Findings, Working Papers in Linguistics, no. 2:79-108, East Lansing: MichiganStateUniversity.

1974The Historical Development of Southwestern Mende Consonants, in Studies in African Linguistics, 4.1:59-94.

1973The Comparative Tonology of Southwestern Mande Nominals, MichiganStateUniversity Ph.D. Thesis: Ann Arbor, University Microfilms.

1969Consonant Mutation in Mende. Master's Thesis, MichiganStateUniversity.

African Language Programming

2003Curricular Models for University African Language Programs. ERIC Digest. December 2003 (EDO-FL-07) Center for Applied Linguistics.

2000Dwyer, D., M. Glew and C. Polio. A Guide for African Language Supervised Tutorials with video. East Lansing: Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR).2002

2001Hypertext and The Design of LangNet (with Antonia Schleicher, Catherine Ingold, Richard Brecht). The National Foreign LanguageCenter (Occasional Paper Series).

1999The Future of African Language Programming in the United States: The Concept of a NationalAfricanLanguageCenter. Journal of the African Language Teachers Association: 1.1:1-24.

1999The Role of Culture in the Language Classroom (with Lioba Moshi and Antonia Schleicher). Journal of the African Language Teachers Association: 1.1:85-114.

1999Developing a Rationale for African Language Tutorials. Directions in African Language Programming. Journal of the African Language Teachers Association: 1.1:115-136.

1997Issues in African Academic Language Programming in the U.S. Issue: A journal of opinion. Volume XXV/I:23-8. African Studies Association.

1998A Team Approach to Proficiency (with David V. Hiple). Foreign Language Annals, 21.1, 1988.

1981African Language Instruction in the United States: Direction and Priorities for the 1980s (with D. Wiley). East Lansing: African Studies Center, Michigan State University.

1979The African Language program at MichiganStateUniversity, System, 7.1:7-28.

1991Requirements for a Successful Self-Instructional Language Program. NASILP Journal (National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs. October, 1991:1, 4-11.

Energy Self-Sufficiency

1979Twelve Volt D.C. Home Power, in Bulletin of Michigan Solar Energy Association, 3.4:6-7.

II Field Experience:

Liberia; Sierra Leone, Jamaica, Trinidad, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Mexico.

III Conferences Organized

19982nd Annual ALTA Conference; 1997; 1994, African Language Teachers Association Parasession on Field Development; 1992, 23rd ACAL; 1991, Directions for African Language Teaching in the 90s; 1989, 1989, Issues in Second Language Teaching & Learning; 1988, Functional Approaches to Teaching African Language Proficiency; 1987, ACTFL Team Approach to Oral Proficiency Evaluation; 1983, Conference on African Language materials Guidelines; 1979 New Directions in African Language Teaching; 1978, Annual Conference on African Linguistics: National Conference; 1975, Energy Conference.

IV National Organizations

African Language Teacher's Association (ALTA): Board member, Treasurer and founding President, Task Force Coordinator; Representative to NCOTLCL; Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Steering Committee; Title VI African Lg. Coordinators, Convener.

V Editorial Boards

Modern Language Journal; Journal of African Lang. and Linguistics; Studies in African Linguistics; Journal of Linguistic Anthropology; Journal of the African Language Teachers Association.

VI Referee, Consultant and reviewer

Africa Today; African Studies Review; Australian Journal of Linguistics; Department of Education; Journal of African Lang. and Linguistics; Journal of the African Language Teachers Association; Journal of Linguistic Anthropology; National Endowment for the Humanities; Sprache und Gesichte in Afrika; Studies in African Linguistics; University of California Press; University of Wisconsin, African Studies Program; University of Wisconsin, Dept. of African Languages and Literatures; Worth Publishers; Yale University Press; Political Asylum Research and Document Service (PARDS), Princeton, New Jersey; Oxford University Press: Mande Language Definitions; Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians: Language Program Design; University of Missouri, Kansas City, College of Arts and Sciences; University of Wisconsin, National African Language Resource Center; Johns Hopkins University; National Foreign Language Center; Yale University: Heritage Language Project; University of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania State University, African Language Program; University of Kansas: African Language Program; Howard University; U.S. Department of Education, Center for International Education; Encyclopedia of the World's Major Languages; Georgetown University, National Language Resource Center.

VII Awards and Fellowships

Adjunct Fellow, John Hopkins University; Distinguished Service: Annual Conference on African Linguistics; Visiting Professor, University of Leiden; Mellon Collaborative Fellowship, National Foreign Language Center; Mellon Individual Fellowship, National Foreign Language Center ; Distinguished Service, African Language Teachers Association .