Oral History meets Linguistics

Erich Kasten (Hrsg.)

Erich Kasten studied social and cultural anthropology and taught at the Free University of Berlin. He has conducted extensive field research in the Canadian Pacific Northwest and in Kamchatka and has curated international museum exhibitions. As the first coordinator of the Siberian research group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, he studied transformations in Post-Soviet Siberia. In ensuing projects for UNESCO and the National Science Foundation, he documented and analyzed indigenous knowledge. Since 2010 he has been the director of the Foundation for Siberian Cultures in Fürstenberg/Havel (Germany). More recently he has also applied himself to developing web archives and Internet interfaces with the purpose of enhancing access and sustaining endangered cultural heritage.

Katja Roller (Hrsg.)

Katja Roller obtained a Ph.D. in English Linguistics from the University of Freiburg. She worked as a research assistant and lecturer in English Linguistics at the University of Freiburg as part of the FREDDIE team (FReiburg English Dialect Database for Instruction and E-learning). In 2015, she co-hosted the interdisciplinary workshop Oral History Meets Linguistics with Stefan Pfaender and Bernd Kortmann. Her research interests include Welsh English, perceptual dialectology, usage-based linguistics and the interface between linguistics and oral history. Currently, she is completing her practical teacher qualification (Referendariat) in Rottweil, Germany.
http://frequenz.uni-freiburg.de/roller-curriculum

Joshua Wilbur (Hrsg.)

Joshua Wilbur, Ph.D., is a general linguist who has been working on documenting and describing Pite Saami, a highly endangered Uralic language of northern Sweden, since 2008. In addition to publishing a grammar of Pite Saami in 2014, he developed an orthographic standard for the language and edited the first Pite Saami - Swedish -
English dictionary, both of which were released in 2016. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Freiburg Research Group for Saami Studies, and the principle investigator in a project aimed at describing Pite Saami syntactic structures.