Advisory Board
Jonathan Pool, Ph.D.
Position: President of Utilika Foundation & Co-Founder of ESF
Areas of Interest: universal interactivity; obstacles to human-human, human-machine and machine-mediated human communication and collaboration arising from the diversity and limitations of languages
Profile:
Jonathan Pool formerly taught political science at SUNY at Stony Brook and the University of Washington, where he conducted research on individual and collective choices about language. He has also been a commercial and nonprofit entrepreneur. Since establishing Utilika Foundation in 2004, he has been guiding its research and development on controlled languages, disambiguation, computational lexicography, and panlingual information, communication, and translation systems, in collaboration with the Turing Center of the University of Washington. This work includes enriching and deploying PanLex, an Internet-accessible resource that translates among millions of words in thousands of languages. He lives in Berkeley, California.
Contact:
2550 Dana Street, Apt. 2C
Berkeley CA 94704-2863
USA
E-mail: http://utilika.org/msg.html
Webpage: http://utilika.org/info/pool.html
David K. Jordan, Ph.D.
Position: Professor Emeritus (UCSD)
Profile:
David K. Jordan received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1969. His academic interests center in cultural and psychological anthropology, sociolinguistics, and the cross-cultural study of religion. Regional interests focus on Chinese society, especially in Taiwan, with a secondary interest in pre-Columbian Mexico.
Jordan has published on language, social structure, folk religion, and sectarianism in Taiwan and China and has written in and about Esperanto and the social movements associated with it and the associated area of interlinguistics.
Contact:
Dept. of Anthropology, UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0532 USA
Tel.: +1-858-822-0751 (direct)
Fax.: +1-206-350-8975 (direct)
E-mail:
Web: http://www.anthro.ucsd.edu/Faculty_Profiles/jordan.html
Web: http://anthro.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/index.html
Ian Richmond, Ph.D.
Position: Professor Emeritus
Areas of Interest: second language learning, computer-assisted language learning, literary studies
Profile:
Dr. Richmond is retired from his position as Professor of French Studies at the Université Sainte-Anne, where he had also served as Vice-President (Academic and Research). His research interests include computer-assisted language learning (CALL), Esperanto as a literary language, and Esperanto and international education.
Recent Publications:
Richmond, I. (1999). Is Your CALL Connected? Stand-alone vs. Integrated CALL software. In Keith C. Cameron (ed.),. CALL: Media, Design and Applications (Lisse, Abingdon, Exton, PA, Tokyo: Swets and Zeitlinger), pp. 294–314.
Heller, L., & Richmond, I. (Eds.). (1994). La Poétique des "Fables" de La Fontaine. London, Ontario: Mestengo Press, 1994.
Richmond, I. (Ed.). (1993). Aspects of Internationalism: Language and Culture. Papers of the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993.
Click here for additional publications.
Contact:
7168 Hazelton Street
Powell River, BC, Canada, V8A 1P8
E-mail:
John Edwards, Ph.D.
Position: Professor
Areas of Interest: social psychology of language; language and group identity
Profile:
Dr. John Edwards teaches the psychology of personality, dealing mainly with the major theorists - Freud, Jung, Rogers, etc. - and also conducts a senior seminar course on the social psychology of language. His own research interests centre upon the relationship between language and group identity (with its important social ramifications, such as ethnicity, nationalism, multiculturalism and social pluralism).
Contact:
Department of Psychology, St Francis Xavier University,
Nova Scotia, Canada
Webpage: http://www.stfx.ca/academic/psychology/pages/faculty-pages-pics/John-Edwards.htm
François Grin, Ph.D.
Position: Professor of Economics
Areas of Interest: language economics, education economics and policy evaluation in these areas
Profile:
Dr. Grin is an economist with research and teaching experience at the Universities of Montreal, Washington (Seattle), Geneva and Lugano, specializing in language economics, education economics and policy evaluation in these areas. He is the author of some 170 scientific publications. From 1998 to 2001 he served as Deputy Director of the European Centre for Minority Issues. Since October 2001 he is Adjunct Director of the Service for Education (SRED) and Professor of Economics at the School of Translation and Interpretation (ETI) at the University of Geneva.
Contact:
Maître d'enseignement et de recherche,
Department of Economics, University of Geneva
E-mail:
Klaus Schubert, Ph.D.
Position: Professor at Universität Hildesheim, Germany; specializes in prepration of technical translators (Bachelor’s level) and specialists in International Communication (Master’s level).
Contact:
Universität Hildesheim
Institut für Übersetzungswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation
Gebäude Lübecker Straße 3
Postanschrift:
Marienburger Platz 22
D-31141 Hildesheim
Deutschland/Germanio/Tyskland/Duitsland/Germany
Tel. +49 (51 21) 8 83-5 44
Tel. +49 (51 21) 8 83-8 74 (Sekr.)
Email:
Web: http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/de/schubert.htm
Web: http://www.trans-kom.eu
Web: http://www.klausschubert.de
Nancy Schweda-Nicholson, Ph.D.
Position: Professor, Dept. of Linguistics & Cognitive Science
Areas of Interest: Sociolinguistics, language planning, language and the law, court interpretation, interpretation theory and practice
Profile:
Nancy Schweda Nicholson is professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science and also holds a secondary appointment in the Legal Studies Program at the University of Delaware. She is widely-published in the areas of interpretation theory and practice, interpreter training, and language planning for court interpreting services in the U.S. and abroad. She serves as a consultant and trainer for the FBI and other government agencies. She is currently a consultant to the Indiana Supreme Court Commission on Race and Gender Fairness, assisting with the development of an organized framework for locating, training, and testing court interpreters in the Hoosier State.
Contact:
Department of Linguistics, University of Delaware
Delaware, USA
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Web: http://www.ling.udel.edu/ling/index.php?option=com_mambatstaff&Itemid=36&func=fullview&staffid=15&mode=list
Duncan Charters, Ph.D.
Position: Professor of Foreign Languages
Areas of Interest: Spanish language and literature, teaching culture and listening comprehension, developing proficiency in language skills, and using technology in teaching
Profile:
Duncan Charters was appointed to the faculty in 1974. Prior to that he was lecturer in foreign languages at Humboldt State University and also taught in regular and summer programs at a number of other colleges and universities. He has also served as program evaluator, consultant, and speaker for schools and organizations including the California and Illinois State Boards of Education. In 1993 he taught in Switzerland as director of an international seminar for preparing language teachers and teacher trainers. In Spain he was coordinator for the conference theme of the Esperanto World Congress, "Educating for the 21st Century."
Contact:
Principia College
Elsah, IL 62028-9799, USA
E-mail:
Web: http://www.prin.edu/college_faculty/index.pl/charters_d
Probal Dasgupta, Ph.D.
Position: Professor of Linguistics, Indian Statistical Institute; President, Universal Esperanto Association
Contact:
Linguistic Research Unit
Indian Statistical Institute
203 B.T. Road
Kolkata 700 108, Barato
India
E-mail:
Web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probal_Dasgupta