Fitzgerald’s work, grants add to UTA’s national reputation in language documentation and revitalization

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Two National Science Foundation grants recently awarded to Colleen Fitzgerald, professor of Linguistics and TESOL, are elevating UT Arlington’s growing reputation and expertise in Native American language documentation and revitalization. Fitzgerald is currently principal investigator on three separate NSF grant projects totaling more than $270,000: the 2014 Institute on Collaborative Language Research, which will be held at UT Arlington next summer; the Oklahoma Breath of Life workshops with Mary Linn, associate professor of anthropology and associate curator at the