| Inge Genee University of Lethbridge Co-editor & PAC representative to the ASA Executive Board (Jan 1, 2021–) | Dr. Inge Genee is a Professor of Linguistics in the Departments of Indigenous Studies and Languages and Linguistics at Iniskim University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. Originally from the Netherlands, where she completed a PhD in general linguistics with a specialization in medieval Irish at the University of Amsterdam, she has lived in Canada since 1997 and worked on Niitsi’powahsini (Blackfoot) for the past 20+ years. Her work has evolved from theoretical and historical to more applied and synchronic, with a special focus on community-based documentation and revitalization work in response to Call to Action 16 from the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions’s Calls to Action (2015). She is the editor of the Blackfoot Online Dictionary and the director of the Blackfoot Language Resources project. |
| Natalie Weber Yale University Co-editor (Jan 1, 2023–) | Dr. Natalie Weber is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics in Yale University. They are a non-Indigenous linguist who has worked with speakers of Blackfoot since 2011, primarily in Alberta, Canada. They specialize in phonology (the sounds of languages), and language description. Their primary interest is in how sounds organize into groups like syllables, words, and phrases, and in the dependencies between these sound groups and the grammatical structure of languages. A secondary research interest is historical sound change and determining how languages are related to one another. |
| Michael Migizi Sullivan, Sr. Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe College Co-Editor (Jan 1, 2026–) | Dr. Michael Migizi Sullivan, Sr. is a homegrown Anishinaabe scholar from the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation in northern Wisconsin. Well known for his community language work, Dr. Sullivan has formally served as the Resident Linguist for the Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Institute, Faculty Director of Native American Studies for the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University, Chair of American Indian Studies at the College of St. Scholastica, as well as various teaching capacities at several other educational institutions. He has traveled extensively across the Ojibwe territory working closely with elders, tribal leaders and administrators, educators and students alike, all in the effort to reclaim and retain the tribal languages of North America. Dr. Sullivan is a founding member of the Aanikoobijigeng National Native American Language Resource Center (N-NALRC) and works closely with tribes across the United States and Canada. He is currently the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for the Midwest Indigenous Immersion Network. He serves as Director of Gide’inaan, the Language & Culture Division of the Lac Courte Oreilles Tribal Government. Dr. Sullivan currently resides near the shores of Lac Courte Oreilles with his family in the village of Skunawong. |