Dr. Daisy Rosenblum

Biography

Daisy Rosenblum is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and specializes in multi-modal documentation and description of indigenous languages in North America. Her work emphasizes methods and partnerships that contribute to community-based language revitalization. Currently, Daisy collaborates with speakers of Kʷak̓ʷala, a Wakashan language in British Columbia, to record narratives, conversations, and various types of spontaneous speech. These recordings are developed into an annotated corpus of spontaneous speech and archived at the Endangered Language Archive at SOAS. Her practical research interests encompass documentation workflows, data management, archival practices, digital repatriation, and decolonization of linguistic research. Academically, she investigates topics such as grammar in space, argument structure, alignment, deixis, voice valence, and mechanisms of contact and diffusion in the Pacific Northwest and Mesoamerican linguistic regions. Prior to becoming a linguist, Daisy taught art and designed curriculum for public elementary schools, museums, and libraries in Brooklyn and Queens, and coordinated Immigrant Artist Services for the New York Foundation for the Arts.

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