Shannon Bischoff

Shannon Bishoff is the Director of the Teaching English as a New Language Program, Associate Director of Research and Innovation, and Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology at Purdue University. His work focuses on language documentation and conservation language policy Indigenous linguistic and human rights pedagogical linguistics linguistic anthropology computational linguistics and formal linguistics. He has worked with the Indigenous Coeur d’Alene Language Program (Idaho, USA) for over 20 years and with the Mon National Education Committee (Myanmar/Burma & US diaspora) for over 10 years on community led projects. He is a member of UNESCO's International Decade of Indigenous Languages Regional Committee (North America) and UNESCO's International Decade of Indigenous Languages Global Ad-hoc group for the preparation of the Global Action Plan.