Principal Investigator Ignacio Montoya, associate professor in the Department of English, and co-principal investigator Daphne Emm-Hooper, director of the Office of Indigenous Relations, received a Dynamic Language Infrastructure Grant from the National Science Foundation for $247,926 to host the Institute on Collaborative Language Research (more commonly referred to as CoLang) in the summer of 2026 at the University of Nevada, Reno.
CoLang provides a cutting-edge training program for new and established scholars, community language activists, and other language workers engaged in language documentation, revitalization, and reclamation. The institute consists of two components: two weeks of workshops on a diversity of relevant topics and a week of in-depth practica, in which participants apply their knowledge and skills to document and analyze understudied and threatened languages.
CoLang emphasizes community-based approaches to language revitalization and collaboration at all stages of this work — from designing documentation or teaching projects to activism or archiving materials for future use. The institute aims to blur the lines between community and academia, learners and facilitators, and among areas of specialty. We welcome all people interested in community-based, collaborative language work.
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