Dr. Jessica Nelson

Jessica Fae Nelson is a linguistic anthropologist whose work focuses on community-based language revitalization, indigeneity, and language and social meaning. Her research interests also include futurisms, filmmaking, and videogames as virtual worlds and tools for language reclamation work. Some of her favorite projects have been a Pataxó Hãhãhãe community dictionary and comparative historical linguistic reconstruction, Berenstein Bears cartoons dubbed into the Lakota language, and a Patxohã mobile dictionary app (ongoing). As a Lakota language learner herself, she also enjoys teaching the Lakota language here at UW.