Arts and Sciences/Native American and Indigenous Studies
Native American Education Research and Cultural Center, Rm 117, 200 S 10th St
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: 307-766-6520
Fax: 307-766-2555
Email: scgsj@uwyo.edu
Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Native American and Indigenous Studies
BA in Cultural Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2006Email: Jessica.Nelson@uwyo.edu
Phone: (307) 766-6520
Office: Anthropology 208
Jessica Fae Nelson is a linguistic anthropologist whose work focuses on community-based language revitalization, indigeneity, language and social meaning, and race and racism. Her research interests also include gender and language, and film and videogame technologies. She has worked with the Pataxó Hãhãhãe of Bahia, Brazil, on the revitalization of their heritage language since 2009. She is also a Lakota language learner and was a Coordinating Producer of the Lakota Berenstain Bears (2011), a Lakota-language version of the popular children’s television series and co-production of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Lakota Language Consortium.
Arts and Sciences/Native American and Indigenous Studies
Native American Education Research and Cultural Center, Rm 117, 200 S 10th St
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: 307-766-6520
Fax: 307-766-2555
Email: scgsj@uwyo.edu