Elling Eide Professor of Anthropology George Aaron Broadwell and his collaborators were honored by the Latin American Studies Association for their volume of open access, pedagogical resources centered on Valley Zapotec-language materials created during the Mexican Colonial period.
Dr. Broadwell collaborates with Zapotec speakers from Oaxaca, Mexico and diasporic communities throughout North America, other linguists, and digital scholarship experts who can help make their work accessible. Their open access publication, Caseidyneën Saën — Learning Together, was recently announced as the winner of the Latin American Studies Association’s first ever Archives, Libraries and Digital Scholarship Award. This award recognizes Caseidyneën Saën as the most outstanding and innovative digital humanities project in Latin American Studies for the year.
The LASA award recognizes the publication’s eight editors: Brook Lillehaugen, Mike Zarafonetis, Felipe H. Lopez, May Helena Plumb, and Xóchitl Flores-Marcial, Moisés García Guzmán, George Aaron Broadwell, and Alejandra Dubcovsky. The editorial team is made up of linguists, historians, and community language activists and consciously seeks to bring Zapotec and non-Zapotec people together to create resources for those who want to speak, study, or research the Zapotec language.
Congratulations, Dr. Broadwell!