This is a proposal for a Fieldwork Lab that we are working on at NYU. If anybody has feedback, let me know.
Proposal for a Fieldwork Lab
Objectives
a.
To facilitate fieldwork among students at
NYU.
b.
To hold regular meetings of the
Fieldwork Discussion Group (FDG).
c.
To create a Fieldwork Fund.
d.
To lend fieldwork equipment to
students.
e.
To create an umbrella website for
various fieldwork activities at NYU.
f.
To
secure a permanent room for working with consultants.
The
purpose of the Fieldwork Lab will be to facilitate fieldwork among both the
graduate students and the undergraduate students at NYU. There is much interest
in the department in fieldwork, as shown by healthy enrollments in the Field
Methods class and participation in the FDG. But there is no easy way for
students to navigate the resources available, and it is especially difficult
for them to get the proper equipment and funding for short term start-up
projects. As noted below, a number of other universities (including Berkeley,
McGill and UCSD) have created Fieldwork Labs. Other departments have created
Fieldwork Labs, but do not have a web presence yet.
The
FDG was created at the beginning of the academic year 2018-2019, and is now in
its second year. The FDG meets on a regular basis throughout the semester
(e.g., once every two weeks). Members of the Fieldwork Lab as well as people
from the local community (e.g., Rutgers, CUNY, other departments at NYU) are
invited to attend. The FDG is organized by student volunteers with faculty
supervision. A description of the FDG is given below.
Students
interested in doing fieldwork will be able to apply for funding from the
Fieldwork Fund. Students will apply
for the funds at any time of the year by submitting a short application which
will be quickly reviewed by a rotating faculty member. For long term projects,
the students will be encouraged to apply to standard funding sources (e.g., NSF
DDRIG).
Students will be able to borrow equipment for
short term fieldwork projects. The equipment made
available will include recorders (Zoom H4n), video cameras, microphones and
laptop computers (loaded with fieldwork related software). In addition,
accessories to this equipment will also be made available (e.g., tripod, mic
stand, cables, batteries, battery chargers). The equipment available will be
listed on the lab website (see below), and administered by faculty members of
the lab. In certain cases, the equipment may be shared between labs.
A lab
website will be created which will include a schedule of events (e.g., talks in
the FDG series), information on fieldwork resources (e.g., funding sources both
NYU internal and external), descriptions of faculty and student fieldwork
projects and other fieldwork related news (such as conferences and summer
schools). The website will be created by a student with faculty supervision,
and administered by rotating student and faculty volunteers.
It is
often challenging to find quiet space to do fieldwork in the department. So we
will secure a permanent room in a quiet location for
students and faculty to work with consultants. This room will be also be used
for the Field Methods course.
Fieldwork Discussion Group
This reading group will be about fieldwork in linguistics, and
in particular about the connection between fieldwork and linguistic theory. The
group will meet on average once every two weeks. Some topics include the
following:
a.
Discussions of recent and classical
papers about fieldwork or involving a substantialfieldwork component.
b.
Student
and faculty presentations of ongoing work in the field.
c.
Presentations
by invited speakers on their own fieldwork experiences.
d.
Discussions
and workshops on software, equipment, workflow and tools.
e.
Methodologies
in the various domains (syntax, semantics, phonetics, etc.).
f.
Archiving:
selection of archive, access, restrictions, formats, costs, etc.
g.
Ethics:
consent forms, IRB approval, copyrights, community rights, etc.
h.
Working
with communities (establishing trust, teaching skills, revitalization, etc.)
i.
Publishing
fieldwork: traditional papers, grammars, primers, dictionaries, etc.
j.
Funding
sources and grant writing workshops.
Other Fieldwork Labs in the
United States
Berkeley
Fieldwork Lab
The Fieldwork Lab provides a range of resources
for the many Berkeley faculty, students, and postdoctoral scholars carrying out
research with linguistic consultants, and for processing data that results from
such work. These include a dedicated room for working with consultants, which
is supplied with recording equipment, and a separate data processing room
equipped with PC and Mac computers on which are installed a suite of
applications useful for language documentation and analysis.
Berkeley-affiliated faculty and students interested in working in the Fieldwork
Lab or checking out recording equipment (for use in the Bay Area only) should
contact Peter
Jenks(link
is external) or Lev
Michael(link
is external).
McGill
FieldWork Lab
FieldWork Lab
Welcome
to the McGill Linguistic Fieldwork Lab! Currently there is active research
by students and other group members on Chichewa (Bantu), Kabyle (Amazigh),
Chuj (Mayan), Ch’ol (Mayan), Malay (Austronesian), Shughni (Pamir), Georgian
(Kartvelian), and Tagalog (Austronesian). Scroll down for current news and
events and contact me if you’d like to get involved.
UCSD
Linguistics Field Research Lab
(https://sites.google.com/view/fieldwork-lab/home)We are
faculty and students dedicated to the teaching and research of underdocumented
and endangered languages. We are currently engaged in research projects on:
Inuktitut (Eskimo-Aleut), Amahuaca (Panoan), Moro (Kordofanian), Choguita
Rarámuri (Uto-Aztecan), Ja'a Kumiai (Yuman), Rere (Kordofanian), Huastec
Nahuatl (Uto-Aztecan), Cahuilla (Uto-Aztecan), Hmong (Hmong-Mien), Xiapu Min
(Min, Sinitic), Gua (Guang, Kwa), Teotepec Eastern Chatino (Oto-Manguean),
Turkish and Azerbaijani (Turkic).
We are
committed to linguistic description and collaborative language documentation
projects whose products serve both academic linguists and indigenous
communities.
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