Faculty Member
Linguistics
EXE¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉäTIVE DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR NATIVE AMERICAN & INDIGENOUS STUDIES
Andrew Cowell received his PhD from UC Berkeley in 1993. He works in the areas of linguistic anthropology and language documentation. He has worked primarily on Arapaho, and also Gros Ventre and Miwok, and has an interest in Polynesia (Hawaii and Tahiti in particular) as well. He has published numerous articles and books, as well as developing curricular material and websites for language and culture learning and documentation. His current project is to develop a lexical database of Arapaho, with funding from the NSF/NEH DEL program.