Giovanni Bennardo, Ph.D.                      Curriculum Vitae

 

Northern Illinois University

Department of Anthropology

and Cognitive Studies Initiative

DeKalb, Illinois

ph: (815) 753-8574; e-mail: bennardo@niu.edu

webpage: http://www3.niu.edu/~t20gxb1/index.htm

 

Place of Birth.......................................................................... Cosenza, Italy

Country of Residence.................................................................... US, since 1988

                Country of Citizenship......................................................................... Italy

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Education

 

·        Ph.D. Anthropology (Linguistic and Cognitive), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;  May 1996.

• M.A. in Linguistics (General and Applied), Ohio University, Athens; June 1987.
• Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere: English. Universitá di Pisa, Italy; March 1974.

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Academic Interests

 

Topical Interests:        Linguistic and cognitive anthropology, knowledge representations, cultural models, spatial cognition, language and culture, language and space, conceptual semantics, Pacific navigation, Polynesian kinship, Polynesian land distribution, and social networks.

Geographical Focus: Oceania, Polynesia, The Kingdom of Tonga.

Dissertation Title:      A Computational Approach to Spatial Cognition: Representing Spatial Relationships in Tongan Language and Culture.

 

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Sabbatical Leave

 

Associate Professor (Linguistic and Cognitive Anthropology)

Department of Anthropology and Cognitive Studies Initiative, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb; academic year 2005-2006

 

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Research Grants and Fellowships

              

2007          National Science Foundation Grant #BCS 0650458: Radiality: A Tongan Foundational Cultural Model. March 2007 through December 2008 ($30,000)

2007          Faculty Research and Artistry Grant: Graduate School Fund, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois. May-June ($6,000)

2006          Travel Grant: Graduate School Fund, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois. July ($1,000)

2005          Faculty Research and Artistry Grant: Graduate School Fund, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois. May-June ($7,500)

2005          Travel Grant: Graduate School Fund, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois. July ($1,300)

2004          National Science Foundation Grant #BCS 0349011: A Cultural Model in Tongan Socio-Political and Linguistic Representations. March 2004 through February 2006 ($50,000)

2002          Faculty Research and Artistry Grant: Graduate School Fund, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois. May-June ($8,000)

2001          General Education Transformation Initiative Workshop Award, Northern Illinois University. July ($2,000)

2001          Faculty Research and Artistry Grant: Graduate School Fund, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois. June ($500)

2001          Learning Technologies Integration Project Grant, Faculty Summer Institute on Learning Technologies, Northern Illinois University, May ($2,000)

2001          Curriculum Development Funding, from US Department of Education through Title VI National Resource Center Grant to the Center for South-East Asia Studies at NIU, September ($2,500)

2000          Faculty Research Grant: College Research and Development Committee, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina. May-June ($2,000)

2000          Dean Research Grant: School of Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina. May-June ($2,000)

1995-96    Fellowship: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; academic year ($21,000)

1993-95    Graduate Research Fellowship: Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. May 1993-August 1995 ($66,000)

1993          Dissertation Research Grant: Graduate College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Summer ($1,500)

1992-93    Fellowship: Graduate College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Academic year ($21,000)

1992          Cognitive Science/Artificial Intelligence Fellowship: Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Summer ($3,000)

1991          Summer Research Grant: Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Summer ($4,000)

1987          United States Information Agency/IIE Grant: Travel grant to the TESOL Convention, Miami, FL.. March ($1,000)

1981          Fulbright Teacher Training Fellowship: Leadership Training in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language, the TESL Section of the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Summer ($9,000)

1968-70     Fellowship: University of Pisa, Italy. Two academic years

 

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Fellowships in Applied Linguistics:

 

1985          British Council and Italian Ministry of Education Fellowship: Teacher Training Course for Italian Teacher Trainers, The University of East Anglia, Norwich, Great Britain. Summer

1980          British Council Fellowship: Course for Teacher Trainers, University of Bergamo, Italy. Summer

1979          British Council Fellowship: British Council Summer School for Italian Teachers of English, Gipsy Hill Centre, Kingston, Great Britain. Summer

 

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Fieldwork Experience

 

2005      The Kingdom of Tonga. June, 1 month

2004      The Kingdom of Tonga. May-June, 1 month

2002      The Kingdom of Tonga. May-June, 5 weeks

1999      The Kingdom of Tonga. July, 1 month

1997      The Kingdom of Tonga. January-February,  6 weeks
1994-5  The Kingdom of Tonga. August 1994-February 1995, 7 months

1993-4  The Kingdom of Tonga. August 1993-January 1994, 6 months

1991        The Kingdom of Tonga. May-July, 10 weeks

 

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Research Experience

 

Researcher

               National Science Foundation; March 2007-December 2008

Researcher

               Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois; summer 2007:

               collected ethnographic and social network data in the Kingdom of Tonga, South Pacific;

Researcher

               Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois; summer 2005:

               collected ethnographic and social network data in the Kingdom of Tonga, South Pacific;

Researcher

               National Science Foundation; March 2004-February 2006

Researcher

               Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois; summer 2002:

               collected preliminary data about social networks in the Kingdom of Tonga, South Pacific;

Researcher

               Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois; summer 2001:

               constructed a socio-cultural-geographic database: "Digitized Tonga"

Researcher

               College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina; summer 2000:

               conducted research on Tongan kinship in collaboration with Prof. Read at UCLA

Post-Doctoral Research Associate:

               Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; academic year 1997-98:

conducted research on Tongan language, Polynesian ethnography, and human cognition

Post-Doctoral Research Associate:

               Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; academic year 1996-97:

               acting as Undergraduate Advisor (Fall 1996 only);

               conducted research on Tongan language, Polynesia ethnography, and human cognition

Graduate Fellow Researcher:

        Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;

from May 1993 through August 1995:

               conducted research for thirteen months in the Kingdom of Tonga, South Pacific;

               analyzed data for fourteen months, and given talks at the Max-Planck Institute

Graduate Fellow Researcher:

               Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; summer 1992:

               conducted research on the linguistic representation of space

Graduate Fellow Researcher:

               Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; summer 1991:

               conducted ten weeks research in Tonga, South Pacific

Research Collaborator:

Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione and University of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy;

Academic years 1981-1982 and 1982-1983:

“Communicative needs analysis, foreign languages, at secondary school level in Southern Italy.” Established criteria for selecting student sample (6,000) out of target group population in project for determining a basic syllabus for foreign languages at secondary school level. Prepared and administered student and teacher questionnaires. Collaborated in research design and data analysis

        

          

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Publications:

 

               Books:

 

editor:                   Representing Space in Oceania: Culture in Language and Mind. Canberra, Australia:

refereed                Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University.

                              July, 2002

 

author:                  Language, Cognition and Social Relationships: A foundational Cultural Model in

refereed                Polynesia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

(forthcoming)      Contracted Date of Publication 2008

 

               Monographs:

 

author:                  “A Conceptual Analysis of Tongan Spatial Nouns: From Grammar to Mind.”

refereed                Languages of the World, 12. Munich, Germany: Lincom Europa,

February, 2000

 

author:                  “Towards a Computational Approach to Spatial Cognition: An Investigation of Relevant Computations in the Visual System and the Linguistic System.” Cognitive Science Technical Report, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Institute

May, 1993

 

 

Articles in Journals:

 

author                   “Metaphors in Tongan Linguistic Production about Social Relationships: ‘Ofa “Love” is Giving.” Anthropological Linguistics

(submitted, under review)

author                   “Radiality in Tongan Linguistic Production about Social Relationships.” American Anthropology

(submitted, under review)

 

author                   “Influence Structures in a Tongan Village: ‘Every Villager is not the same!’ ” Connections

(submitted, under review)

 

co-author              “Cognition, Algebra, and Culture in the Tongan Kinship Terminology.” Cognition and

refereed                Culture. (with Dwight Read, UCLA)

(to appear in February 2007)

 

co-author              “The Tongan Kinship Terminology: Insights from an Algebraic Analysis.” Mathematical

refereed                Anthropology and Cultural Theory, 2,1:1-51. http://www.mathematicalanthropology.org/ (with Dwight Read, UCLA) December, 2005

 

co-author:            “Three Innovative Research Tools to Store, Visualize, and Analyze Data in and from the

refereed                Field.” Field Methods, 16, 4:396:413. (with Kurt Schultz) October, 2004

 

co-author:            “A Computational Approach to the Cognition of Space and its Linguistic Expressions.”

refereed                Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory, 1, 2:1-83.(with F. K. Lehman) June, 2003

 

co-author:            “Constructing the Three-Dimensional World of Speech Events.” Journal of Linguistic

refereed                Anthropology. 13, 1:98-119. (with Kurt Schultz) April, 2003

 

author                   "Map Drawing in Tonga, Polynesia: Accessing Mental Representations of Space,"

refereed                Field Methods, 14, 4:390-417. November, 2002

 

author                   "Cognitive Semantics, Typology, and Culture as a Cognitive System: The Work of

                              Leonard Talmy," Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 12,1:pp. 88-98. June, 2002

 

author:                  “Language and Space in Tonga: The Front of the House is Where the Chief Sits!”

refereed                Anthropological Linguistics, 42, 4:499-544. December, 2000

 

author:                  "Possessive Markers in Tongan: A Conceptual Approach." In Steven R. Fischer (Ed.).

                              Possessive Markers in Central Pacific Languages, special issue of Language Typology and Universals, Berlin 53 (2000) 3/4:269-280. November, 2000

 

author:                  “The Conceptual Content of Tongan Directionals: Mental Representations of Space in Tongan.” In Rongorongo Studies, 9, 2:39-61. Auckland, New Zealand: The Institute of Polynesian Languages and Literatures. October, 1999

 

Book Chapters:

 

author:                  “Spatial Frames of Reference for Temporal Relations: A Conceptual Analysis in English,

refereed                German, and Tongan.” In Bruno G. Bara, Lawrence Barsalou, and Monica Bucciarelli (Eds.). Proceedings of the 27^th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. pp. 220-225. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum. (with Andrea Bender and Sieghard Beller) August, 2005

 

author:                  “Culture and Mind: Cultural Models in Cognition.” In Bruno G. Bara, Lawrence Barsalou,

refereed                and Monica Bucciarelli (Eds.). Proceedings of the 27^th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. p. 23. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum. August, 2005

 

author                   “Linguistic Relativity and Spatial Language.” UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support

refereed                Systems (EOLSS). EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK. [http://www.eolss.net] March, 2005

 

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