The Nepal Earthquakes Project
Channel: The IRIS Center at SIUe
Date: 2017-12-06

Jacob Sebok is an undergraduate student at SIUE working toward his degree in anthropology with a minor in linguistics. As a research assistant to Dr. Kristine Hildebrandt, Jacob has been working with a team to develop a web-based archive and exhibit to house data collected as part of Hildebrandt’s research project: “RAPID: Narrating Disaster: Calibrating Causality and Responses to the 2015 Earthquakes in Nepal.” During his presentation, Jacob will cover topics including language endangerment and death, consequences of the 2015 earthquakes in Nepal, the process of constructing IRIS’ newest website, and the role that archives run by small institutions can play in benefitting both academic and applied linguists in their work with endangered languages.