Harold D. Crook
VITA - 2016
Home address:
3138½ Clemans Rd,
Clarkston, WA 99403
Cell
(208) 791-5333
Business address:
Division of Humanities
Lewis-Clark State College
500 8th Street
Lewiston, ID 83501
Ext.
(208) 792-2852
E-mail address:
[email protected]
Education:
Ph.D. 1999 (Linguistics) University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
Dissertation title: “The Phonology and Morphology of Nez Perce Stress.”
M.A. 1990 (Linguistics) University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
B.A. 1986 (Humanities – Linguistics) summa cum laude, Washington State
University, Pullman, WA.
Awards:
2012
2011
President's Award for Excellence in Diversity and Cross-Cultural
Understanding, Lewis-Clark State College.
H.L. Talkington award for excellence in teaching Lewis-Clark State
College.
Research interests:
The phonology and morphology of American Indian Languages.
Language death and revitalization.
Anthropological linguistics and the study of traditional narratives.
Jordanian Arabic phonology, morphology, and oral history.
Research Experience:
1997-present: Revitalization of Nez Perce, including impact of moribundity and
language disuse upon the grammars of individual speakers.
1994-present: Phonology and morphology of Nez Perce
1986-1992: Field research into the syntax and tonology of Bambara with six
native speakers.
1986-present: Jordanian Arabic phonology and morphology.
2006-present: Methods for teaching Anglo-Saxon to undergraduates.
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2008-present: Nez Perce Hymnody, retranscription and translation of traditional
hymns.
Governing Boards:
2009-2012
Board of Directors, Washington-Idaho Symphony.
2005-2009
Board of Directors, Festival Dance Academy.
Current Employment:
1999- Present Professor Lewis-Clark State College. Responsibilities include
development and instruction of first, second and third year Nez Perce Language.
Past Employment:
1997-2009
Team Leader of the Nez Perce Language Program.
Responsibilities included curriculum development; hiring, training, and
supervising all personnel; staff development; grant writing; liaison with
neighboring colleges and universities.
1997
Teaching Fellow, College of Letters and Science, UCLA.
1996-1997
Director, Pre-Professional Advising Office, UCLA.
Responsibilities included overseeing counseling services to undergraduates
interested in medicine, law, optometry, veterinary science, pharmacy, and
nursing.
1990-1996
Academic Counselor, College of Letters and Science, UCLA.
Responsibilities included degree planning, counseling students in severe academic
difficulty, and teaching study skills and time management.
1986-1990
Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics, UCLA.
1986-1987
ESL Instructor, Yarmouk Cultural Center, Amman, Jordan.
1984-1986
Director, Student Task Force for Responsible use of Alcohol,
Washington State University.
Curriculum Development:
ID 300Q "Economics of Good and Evil" an interdisciplinary course based on
Tomas Sedlacek's book of this name, using great texts in the humanities to reflect
upon ethical problems in economics.
Humanities 350 "Values: Northwest Literature" a class based on Native
American culture and literature from traditional tales to Sherman Alexie.
Niimíipuum ’inmíiwit – The Nez Perce Year. First-year textbook for instruction of
Nez Perce language for ages high school, college, and adult, based upon the
traditional
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Titwáatit – Stories. Second-year textbook for instruction of Nez Perce language
for ages high school, college, and adult, based upon the Nez Perce myths of
Archie Phinney, Harry Wheeler, Elizabeth Wilson.
Píic'iqcix – We speak together. Third-year textbook for developing fluency in
Nez Perce conversation.
Nez Perce Language materials for instruction of elementary grades 1-5.
Language Laboratory Workbook I.
History and Structure of English – Workbook and series of Power Point slides. I
am currently working on a new text to be used in Spring 2008 for English 431
"History and Structure of English."
Producer and Language Content advisor for Nez Perce Language Video, an
instructional DVD developed by the Nez Perce Tribe's Language Program.
Content includes Nez Perce War Memorials & Stew and Fry Bread Making. The
DVD is nearly complete.
"Wéewtukeesnim Téecukwe: Hotel Lesson," Clearwater River Casino –
curriculum for hotel employees using Nez Perce Language for visitors.
"Cuuy'em – Fish," Lesson on fish species for Nez Perce Tribal Fisheries.
Teaching Experience:
Nez Perce Language 101-102, 109 "Elementary Nez Perce and Lab,"
Lewis-Clark State College 1998 – present
Nez Perce Language 201-202, 209 "Intermediate Nez Perce Language,"
LCSC 1999 – present.
Nez Perce Language 310-311 "Conversational Nez Perce." LCSC 2001 – present.
English 261 "Mythologies," LCSC 2004, 2006, 2014, 2015
English 292 "Native American Oral Literatures for Non-Majors," LCSC 2003,
2005.
English 390 "Bible as Literature," LCSC 2002, 2008
English 392 "Readings in Anglo-Saxon," LCSC 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007.
English 392 "Language Teaching Methods," LCSC 2004.
English 431 "History and Structure of English," LCSC 2002, 2004, 2006-2011
English 441 "Linguistics," LCSC 2013, 2014
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English 492 "Readings in Beowulf," LCSC 2007.
English 492 "Linguistics" LCSC 2013, 2014.
English 473 “Native American Oral Literature,” LCSC 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007,
2009, 2014
English 496 “History of English,” University of Idaho 2003.
Humanities 351 "Values: Northwest Literature."
ID 300Q "Economics of Good and Evil" 2015 (Spring and Fall)
Nez Perce 101, 102, 103 "Elementary Nez Perce Language" Northwest Indian
College, Lapwai and Kamiah Learning Centers, 2005 – present (this as part of
duties as Team Leader of the Nez Perce Tribe's Language Program).
English 292ST – Freshman Seminar "Nez Perce Oral Narratives" UCLA 1997.
Supervision of classes for the Nez Perce Tribe, including instruction in Lapwai
High School and Lapwai Elementary School.
Teaching assistant for classes in introductory linguistics, introduction to English
vocabulary, and historical linguistics.
Compressed Video Instruction and Classes Shared between LCSC, UI, and WSU:
1999- 2009
I adapted the Nez Perce Language courses at Lewis-Clark State
College for distance learning so that class sections at the University of Idaho and
Washington State University participate together with the section on the LCSC
Campus. This was the first class ever shared between all three campuses that I am
aware of.
Service to the LCSC Academic Community through Committee Work:
2015-2016
LCSC, Chair-Elect, Faculty Senate.
2015-2016
LCSC, Chair, Faculty Affairs Committee.
2015-2016
LCSC, Compensation Review Committee.
2015-2016
LCSC, Campus Strategic Enrollment Committee.
2014-2015
LCSC, Chair, Standing Tenure and Promotion Review Committee.
2014-2015
LCSC, Prior Adult Learning Committee.
1999-present Lewis-Clark State College, Native American Advisory Board.
2002-present LCSC, Creator of and advisor for Nez Perce Language Minor.
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2013-2014
LCSC, Tenure committee for Rik Brosten.
2012-2013
LCSC, President's Strategic Planning Committee.
2012 & 2013 LCSC, Chair, Talkington Teaching Award Committee.
2011-2012
LCSC, Chair, Administrative Procedures.
2010-2011
LCSC, Chair, Budget Liaison Committee.
2010
LCSC, Chair, Curriculum Committee.
2010-2011
LCSC, Chair, Faculty Senate.
2010-2011
LCSC, Tenure committee for Nancy Lee-Painter.
2010-2011
LCSC, Tenure committee for Wendy Shuttleworth.
2011-2012
LCSC, Tenure committee for Misty Urban.
2009-2010
LCSC, Chair, Faculty Affairs Committee.
2008-2015
LCSC representative to the regional Native American Studies
Group (including tribes, WSU, UI, LCSC, Northwest Indian
College, North Idaho College).
2009-2011
LCSC, Compensation Review Committee.
2008
LCSC – Humanities, Hiring committee for Publishing Arts pos.
2008-2009
LCSC, Hiring committee for academic dean.
2009-2010
LCSC, Chair Elect, Faculty Senate.
2007-2008
LCSC – Humanities, Hiring committee for Medievalist position.
2005-2006
LCSC, Tenure committee for Keegan Schmidt.
2005-2006
LCSC, Chair, Student Affairs Committee.
2004-2005
LCSC, Chair, Tenure committee for James Tarter.
2002-2003,
LCSC – Humanities, Governance and Personnel Committee.
2002-2003
LCSC, General Education Committee.
2000-2002
LCSC, Curriculum Committee.
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Other Service to the LCSC Academic Community:
2000-2011
Dancer in and promoter of LCSC dance programs.
2001
Composed the MOU between LCSC and the Nez Perce Tribe,
outlining the Tribe's retention of copyright ownership of
curriculum while granting the College use of those materials.
2001-present Mentored twelve seniors in their capstone projects.
2004-present Photography for the LCSC Jazz Band and other events for LCSC
Humanities Division, including promotional advertisements.
2005-present Warrior Athletic Association, sponsor of a student athlete
scholarship in Cross-Country.
2005-2006
Restarted the Safe Zones Program with Leah Hyman and Andy
Hanson to promote tolerance of others at LCSC, particularly of
gays and lesbians. Safe Zones advisory committee.
2006
Member of discussion panel following the Laramie Project play.
2006-2010
LCSC Classical Guitar Ensemble with Tim Bell and Bill Johnson.
2013
Directed the Nez Perce language play "Tim'néepe – At the Heart"
with a complete Native cast. 3 performances
2000-2015
Assisting with the Native American Club and Native American
Awareness Week.
Service to the Nez Perce Tribe:
1997-2009
Team Leader, Nez Perce Tribe Language Program, Lapwai, ID.
The following activities are included:
• Producing new curriculum for the Tribe and College
• Liaison between the Tribe and higher education
• Liaison with the Tribe's Circle of Elders
• Writing grant proposals
• Supervising several language coordinators and elder-teachers
• Evaluating program progress and planning future goals
• Teaching at beginning Nez Perce at Northwest Indian College in Lapwai
• Documenting Nez Perce Language with elders
• Mentoring students in elder discussion sessions
• Developing the certification policies for the Tribe and the State of Idaho in
Nez Perce Language Teaching K-12.
• Preparing proposals for allocation grant funding for Language Program.
• Teaching in After-School Programs at Lapwai and Kamiah with
elementary children 1997-2000, 2007
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2007
Assisted with and coordinated volunteers for the 13th Annual Northwest
Native American Basket weaver's Conference at the Clearwater River
Casino.
2008
Organized and currated a series of five lectures by three scholars on Nez
Perce music.
2010-14 Provided twice-weekly classes in Phonetics, Phonology, and
conversational Nez Perce to Nez Perce Tribe's Language Program staff.
Service to the General Community:
2006-2007
Foster parent, Asotin County, WA.
Grants and Fellowships:
"Phinney Project" Retranscription and annotation of thirteen stories from of
Archie Phinney's Nez Perce Texts. Idaho Humanities Council – $1,950.
"Nez Perce Conversational Patterns." Administration for Native Americans:
Languages – Phase 2. Documenting Nez Perce conversation, developing
curriculum based on the patterns, and developing software to support the
curriculum. Two year grant - $185,000.
2003-2005 “Nez Perce Language Program – Phase III: Immersion – Recruitment,
Preparation, Transition”. Association for Native Americans. Seventeen month
grant of a total of $370,000 to complete the initial stages of developing an
elementary immersion program in Lapwai.
2002-2003 “Nez Perce Language Program – Phase III: Immersion –
Recruitment, Preparation, Transition”. Association for Native Americans. Oneyear grant of a total of $190,000 to provide for the initial stages of developing an
elementary immersion program in Lapwai.
1999-2002 “Nez Perce Language Program – Phase II: Inter-Linking our
Generations through Our Language” . Association for Native Americans. Threeyear grant of total of $450,000 to provide comprehensive language instruction to
all generations of Nez Perce tribal members.
1995-1996 “Nez Perce Folklore and Oral History” - Sven and Astrid Liljeblad
Endowment Fund: Grants in Great Basin Studies. An investigation into what
remains of the old knowledge of folklore with a pilot study of the Nez Perce oral
history of the early 20th century.
1995-1996 “Nez Perce Dialectology” Melville Jacobs Grant.
Publications:
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2013
Crook, Harold and Michael B Wasson, eds. hey'úuxchacwal kaa palx̣c: Ten Nez
Perce Stories from Archie and Mary Phinney. Published by LCSC. Forward by
William Willard.
1998 “Becoming Your Own Academic Doctor”, in Bruce Barbee, The UCLA Guide for
Student Academic Success.
1994 “On Nez Perce Nouns with Irregular Metrical Behavior or ‘Why “Grizzly Bear”
has Horrible Stress,” in Survey of California and Other Indian Languages: Report
9, Proceedings of the Hokan-Penutian Conference.
In preparation:
Niimíipuum ’inmíiwit – The Nez Perce Year. First-year textbook for instruction of Nez
Perce language for ages high school, college, and adult, based upon the traditional
Titwáatit – Stories. Second-year textbook for instruction of Nez Perce language for ages
high school, college, and adult, based upon the Nez Perce myths of Archie
Phinney, Harry Wheeler, Elizabeth Wilson.
Píic'iqcix – We speak together. Third-year textbook for developing fluency in Nez Perce
conversation.
"NUMIPU TIMES – Retranscription and Translation of the 1840 Nez Perce primer by
Asa Bowen Smith" with Anne Keary and Nez Perce Elders.
Nez Perce Hymns, Retranscription and translation of twelve Nez Perce hymns for use by
churches on the Reservation.
Nez Perce Grammar, Lincom Grammars, Lincom Publications, Switzerland.
"The Phonology and Morphology of Nez Perce Stress"
"Diachronic Explanations of Nez Perce Noun Stem Asymmetries"
"A Pedagogical Grammar of Nez Perce"
Book review of "Studies in Athapaskan Stress," in Journal of Anthropological
Linguistics.
History and Structure of the English Language, a textbook.
Conference Presentations:
"On Nez Perce Nouns with Irregular Metrical Behavior or ‘Why "Grizzly Bear" has
Horrible Stress,' " (1994), Hokan-Penutian Conference, University of Oregon,
Eugene, Oregon.
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"Developing a Response to the Problems of Academic Dismissal and Retention," (1995),
Conference of University of California Academic Counselors, UC Santa Barbara,
Santa Barbara, California.
"Phonetic Correlates of Nez Perce Stress," (1996), Linguistic Society of America, San
Diego, California.
"Nez Perce Noun Stress," (1996), American Anthropological Association, San Francisco,
California.
"Nez Perce Verb Stress," (1996), Western Conference on Linguistics, Santa Cruz,
California.
"Making Policy Decisions Affecting the Future Phonology of a Moribund Language,"
(1999), Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, California.
"Development and Progress of the Nez Perce Language Program," (1999), Tamastalikt
Cultural Center, Umatilla Indian Reservation, Pendleton, Oregon.
"Vocalic Hiatus in Nez Perce," (2000), Linguistic Society of America, Chicago.
"Diachronic Explanations for Stem Asymmetries in Nez Perce," (2000), Workshop for
American Indian Linguistics, University of California at Santa Barbara.
"Development and Status of the Nez Perce Language Program," (2001), Conference on
Plateau Languages, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.
"Making Culture a Vital Part of Foreign/Heritage Language Instruction," PIE
Conference, October 2002, Lewiston High School, Lewiston, ID.
"The Nez Perce Frybread Lesson – Adapting New Material for Your Language," (2003)
Conference on Heritage Oregon Languages Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR.
"Developing a College Level Indian Language Program," (2005), Conference on Plateau
Cultures, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.
"How to Teach Glottalized Stops," (2006), Sahaptian Language Conference, Heritage
College, Toppenish, WA.
"Enhancing Language Partnerships between Native Peoples and Institutions of Higher
Education," (2006), Conference on the Endangered Languages and Cultures of
Native America - CELCNA, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
"Nez Perce Detransitivization: Indefinites, Generics, Defocus, and Possessives," (2006),
Workshop for American Indian Linguistics, University of California at Santa
Barbara.
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"Bringing back Phinney's Stories," (2009) Naami Tiicam, Naami Waq'iswit – Plateau
Conference, May 11-13, Moscow, Idaho.
Some Additional Presentations:
"Language, Computers, and Optimality Theory – How your brain determines the best
way to pronounce a word," LCSC Honors Program Discussion Series (2001).
Review of P.L. Bergens Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden.
LCSC Library's Book Discussion Series (2002).
Laramie Project – co-discussion of the drama and its implications for campus life
following the presentation of the play (2006).
"Nez Perce Language Preservation" Nez Perce National Historic Park, 50th Annual
Speaker Series, October 25, 2015
"Storytelling – a Nez Perce Tradition" LCSC Center for Arts and History, December 10,
2015.
Language Fieldwork Experience:
Nez Perce, Arabic, Bambara, Cebuano, Wolof, Idoma, Lugbara
Professional Information:
Languages: Arabic, Bambara, Nez Perce, Italian
Professional Organizations:
Linguistic Society of America
Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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