Curriculum Vita
Spike Gildea
EDUCATION
Ph. D., Linguistics. 1992. University of Oregon.
M.A., Linguistics, Applied Linguistics Concentration. 1989. University of Oregon.
Peace Corps/Nepal TEFL Training. Sept-Dec, 1983. Nepal.
B.A., cum laude, English Literature. 1983. University of Oregon.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
• Peace Corps Volunteer, N/131, Nepal, TEFL Teacher. 1983-85.
• Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Oregon. 1986-91.
• Research Assistant, University of Oregon. 1987-90.
• Research Associate, University of Oregon. 1992-93.
• Pesquisador Visitante, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil. 1993-1997.
• Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Rice University. 1993-1997
• Resident Faculty Associate, Jones College, Rice University. 1995-1999
• Associate Professor of Linguistics, Rice University. 1997-2000
• Master of Lovett College, Rice University. 1999-2000
• Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Oregon. 2000-current
• Head of Linguistics, University of Oregon. 2000-2006
• Oregon Director, Hanyang-Oregon Joint TESOL Program, 2001-2003
• Visiting Fellow, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia. August-December, 2006
• Oregon Director, Hanyang-Oregon Joint TESOL Program, 2008-2009
AWARDS
1991. University of Oregon Doctoral Research Fellowship.
1992. NSF Grant No. DBS-9210130. Northern Brazilian Cariban Languages Documentation Project, University of Oregon / Rice University.
1993. Book Award, Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas: Comparative Cariban Morphosyntax: On the Genesis of Ergativity in Independent Clauses.
1995. Brown Education Foundation grant, video: Mechanisms of Speech.
1995. NSF Supplement to DBS-9210130. Workshop in Grammatical Description, held at Rice University, June 1995.
1996. NSF Supplement to DBS-9210130. Research Experience for Undergraduates.
1999. NSF Grant No. BCS-9818244. Dissertation Research: A Grammar of Tiriyó (for Sérgio Meira)
2000. NSF Grant No. BCS-9909118. Dissertation Research: A Grammar of Wayana (for Petronila Tavares).
2001. NSF Grant No. BCS-0117619. Akawaio Grammar (with Desrey Caesar (Fox))
2006. NSF Grant No. BCS- 0617188. Dissertation Research: A Grammar of Kokama-Kokamilla. (for Rosa Vallejos Yopan).