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E.
Annamalai, Ph.D.
( Chair, 2012), holds a doctorate in Linguistics from the University of Chicago and is Professor Emeritus of the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore, India, where he worked for twenty-five years, first as Deputy Director and then as Director. As Deputy Director, he was responsible for work relating to indigenous languages and their use in education, including creation of a writing system for pre-literate languages, production of grammars, dictionaries and educational materials, recording of folklore, designing pedagogical models, training of teachers, orientation to government officials and influencing the policies of state governments about the education of indigenous people. His view on language policy and programs, which evolved over years of work of the above kind, integrates the role of the government, the community and the individual regarding language use and stability of multilingualism. This view is articulated in Reflections on a Language Policy for Multilingualism, published in the journal Language Policy 2:2 (2003). The range of his work is available in the book Managing Multilingualism in India: Political and Linguistic Dimensions (2001). His research and programmatic work for maintaining multilingualism in India naturally led to his interest in global language diversity and its relation to other diversities in the world. This interest is also reflected in his past work on the panel of the Documentation of Endangered Languages Project of the Rausing Foundation in London and on the National Council for the Promotion of Indian Languages advising on language policy to the Government of India. He is also involved in the creation of databases and dictionaries of Indian languages, particularly Tamil, his mother tongue. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Yale University.
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Eugene
Hunn, Ph.D. ( Vice-Chair:
2010),
is Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University
of Washington, Seattle, where he has taught since 1972. He
received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of
California, Berkeley in 1973. His primary research interests
are ethnobiology, ethnoecology, and cognitive anthropology.
He has conducted field work in Mexico (Tzeltal Maya ethnozoology,
1971; Zapotec natural history, 1996ff) and with Native North
American communities (e.g., Sahaptin, 1976ff). His books include
Tzeltal Folk Zoology: The Classification of Discontinuities
in Nature (Academic Press, 1977), Resource Managers:
North American and Australian Hunter-Gatherers , co-edited
with N. M. Williams (Westview, 1981), Nch'i-Wána,
‘The Big River': Mid-Columbia Indians and their Land
(University of Washington Press, 1990), with two books
in press A Zapotec Natural History (University of
Arizona) and Our Land: Tiichamaami: A sahaptian Language
Place Names and Ethnographic Atlas of the Contemporary and
Ceded Homelands of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation (co-authored/edited with Thomas Morning
Owl, Modesta Minthorn, and Jennifer Karson; Tamástslikt
Cultural Heritage Center, Mission, OR; Ecotrust, Portland,
OR, and the University of Washington Press). His current research
efforts focus on ongoing ethnobiological research in the Sierra
Sur of Oaxaca, continuing ethnogeographic research on Sahaptin
in the Columbia Plateau of the Pacific Northwest and contract
research on ethnobiology and traditional resource rights among
Native American communities in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
Hunn is immediate past president of the Society of Ethnobiology
and served as editor of the Society's Journal of Ethnobiology
1995-1999. He has served on the Melville Jacobs Research
Fund advisory board since 1985. He is an avid birder and has
long been active in his local Audubon chapter, serving as
its President 1988-1990.
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Susan
Fassberg (Secretary / Treasurer:
2012), Susan brings twenty-plus years of experience in marketing, business development and public relations to the Terralingua Board. She has held senior positions with Salon.com and AskJeeves.com, and consulted for LAMagazine and numerous TV productions in the US and overseas (NDR, ZDF, and RTL+). "Linking people with ideas with people with ideas...”™ is Susan’s passion. Fluent in German, French and Spanish, she recently launched Connectingdotz.com, a green greeting card company celebrating linguistic diversity, endangered languages, and indigenous wisdom. Susan also serves on the Board of RockwoodLeadershipInstitute.org. She has been active in progressive philanthropic projects over the years and is always keen to nurture people who use their powers for good, be it through direct input or useful referrals.
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Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier (At-large: 2012) is a Mexican-born marine biologist, photojournalist, and writer who has traveled to over 60 countries to
photograph and document the close relationship between people and nature.
She has edited and co-edited 10 books and has published extensively in the
popular and scientific literature on subjects related to conservation priorities for biodiversity and indigenous knowledge, especially in the
Amazon region. Cristina serves as President of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP), a prestigious group of photographers, she founded in 2005 (www.ilcp.com ). She also serves in the
Chairman's Council at Conservation International (CI), on the Advisory Board
of Nature's Best Magazine, on the Steering Committee of the Commission on
Communication and Education of the IUCN and she is a Board Member of the
WILD Foundation.
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