Dr. Tiffany L. Kershner
Ph.D. in Linguistics, Indiana University at Bloomington , 2002
M.A. in Linguistics, Indiana University at Bloomington , 1999
M.A. in Anthropology, State University of New York at Albany , 1996
B.A. in Anthropology with Honors and Distinction, University of Iowa , 1994
Interests: African languages, ethnosemantics, noun and verb classification, language documentation, applied anthropology

Hailing from a small coal-mining town in northeastern Pennsylvania , Dr. Kershner has an extensive background in linguistic and cultural anthropology, descriptive linguistics, and African languages. She has done intensive fieldwork amongst the Sukwa culture of Malawi , through which she received funding through a USIA Fulbright Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant. She also served for two years as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Carleton College (2002-2004).

Dr. Kershner regularly teaches the introductory course in linguistic anthropology and Cultures of Africa and advanced courses in linguistic anthropology, such as Language and Culture, Linguistic Field Methods, Language and Gender, and Language Ecology. Some of her current research interests in language and culture include folk ethnobiological classification systems, African oral literature, language and gender, cultural semantics and pragmatics, and tense, aspect, and verb classification systems. She began a new linguistic documentation project in Namibia in the summer 2008.

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