Summary
Mizuki Miyashita is a professor of linguistics and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Montana. She earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Arizona; her dissertation was on phonology in Tohono O’odham. The focus of her research is documentary linguistics in Blackfoot, which began with a collaboration with the late Darrell Kipp at the Piegan Institute in Browning, Montana. She has recorded lullabies and other songs, narratives, conversations and isolated words in Blackfoot. Her research focuses on documentation and application of rhythm and melody in Blackfoot, which is funded by the National Science Foundation’s Dynamic Language Infrastructure Program (NSF-DLI). She is also engaged in Community-Based Research; she established the Collaborative Language Planning Project (CLPP) with six Tribal Colleges in Montana. She attended CoLang 2014, co-presented a plenary talk at CoLang 2016, instructed workshops at CoLang 2018, was a co-director of CoLang 2022 and facilitated a lullaby workshop at CoLang 2024.