Mark Turin
Mark Turin (Yale U) is the principal investigator on two new research grants from Google and the British Council. Funded by a Google Earth Developer Grant, the idea for this partnership grew out of an event convened by Turin at the University of Cambridge in June 2012 entitled “Charting Vanishing Voices: A Collaborative Workshop to Map Endangered Oral Cultures.” Through the Google grant, the research team will develop user-friendly, online tools that will allow communities to map their own linguistic and cultural diversity.
A two-year grant from the British Council Transnational Education Partnership Programme will support Turin’s collaboration with researchers at the Karakorum International University (KIU) in Gilgit, Pakistan, to survey and document a number of endangered languages spoken in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. Working in partnership with KIU masters students and faculty in the department of modern languages , Turin is developing a training module and fieldwork kit that can be used by local scholars who are committed to collecting and protecting their endangered oral literatures and spoken traditions. The first period of fieldwork is scheduled for the summer of 2013.
via Anthropology-News http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2012/12/03/mark-turin/
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