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Dr. Kristine Stenzel received her PhD. in Linguistics in 2004 from the University of Colorado and worked for thirteen years as a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Dr. Stenzel’s research has focused primarily on the description, documentation, and analysis of Kotiria (Wanano) and Wa’ikhana (Piratapuyo), languages of the East Tukano family, spoken in the Upper Rio Negro region of northwest Amazonia. Her broader interests include topics in linguistic typology, multilingualism and small-scale multilingual systems, language contact and change, as well as orthography development and production of materials for the maintenance and revitalization of endangered languages. Her publications include A Descriptive Grammar of Kotiria (Wanano), the co-edited volumes Cultural and Linguistic Interaction in Northwestern Amazonia and On This and Other Worlds: Voices from Amazonia, as well as articles in the International Journal of American Linguistics, Studies in Language, Amerindia, Language Documentation & Conservation, Critical Multilingualism Studies, Language and Communication, Anthropological Linguistics, and Language Documentation & Description, among others. She has contributed chapters to several volumes in the Typological Studies in Language series, the Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality, and the upcoming Clause Chaining in the World’s Languages and Handbook of Amazonian Languages. Dr. Stenzel became the PI on the NSF-funded research grant Grammar and multilingual practices through the lens of everyday interaction in two endangered languages in the East Tukano family, working from 2017-2020 with CU’s Dr. Barbara Fox and Dr. Nicholas Williams. She was awarded an NEH Fellowship to further the analysis of data gathered within this project at CU in 2021-2022. In addition to this ongoing research, she currently works as Program Coordinator for the Computational Linguistics, Analytics, Search and Informatics (CLASIC) Professional Master’s Program.