Provost Seminar Series: Dr. Lenore Grenoble

"Thin Ice: Language and cultural change in a melting Arctic," Lenore A. Grenoble, Department of Linguistics, The University of Chicago; Ilisimatusarfik, The University of Greenland; Arctic Language Ecology Lab, North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk.

Grenoble is the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago, specializing in Slavic and Arctic Indigenous languages. She also holds positions as an Adjunct Professor at Ilisimatusarfik (the University of Greenland) and as Director of the Arctic Linguistic Ecology Lab at the M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Russia. Her research focuses on language contact and shift, vitality and sustainability, documentation and revitalization. Her primary fieldwork engages with speakers in far Northeastern Russia, Siberia, and Greenland. Grenoble is currently engaged in research that brings together linguistic, sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic factors in contact-induced morphosyntactic change and shift, together with a study of the relationship of climate change, urbanization, language vitality and well-being in Arctic Indigenous communities.