Arienne Dwyer
Department of Anthropology, Kansas University
associate professor
Professor Dwyer is a specialist on language documentation and revitalization, was part of the 2004 UNESCO ad hoc Expert Committee on Language Endangerment which developed recent language vitality assessment tools. Her area of expertise is in the sociolinguistics of Chinese and Central Asian languages and she has directed several projects to document and archive languages of these regions, including Salar, Kazakh, Uyghur, Mongour, Wutun, Kyrgyz, and also archaic German dialects in Kansas.