Assessment of National Breath of Life

The Discovery Center for Evaluation, Research, and Professional Learning has contracted with the National Breath of Life Archival Institute (BoL) project to provide an impact evaluation. Dr. Sarah B. Woodruff, Miami University, is the Principal Investigator for the evaluation, Ms. Kristen Morio, Senior Research Associate, is the Project Director for this evaluation and Ms. Alison Slaughter is the Researcher and Statistician. Dr. Woodruff and Ms. Morio oversee all aspects of the evaluation.

Findings at a Glance

Breath of Life 1.0 Executive Summary [PDF]

Publications

Baldwin, D., L. Hinton & G. Pérez Báez. 2018. The Breath of Life Workshops and Institutes. In L. Hinton, L. Huss and G. Roche (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization. New York: Taylor & Francis Group.

Fitzgerald, Colleen and Mary S. Linn. 2013. Training communities, training graduate students: The 2012 Oklahoma Breath of Life Workshop. Language Documentation and Conservation 7. 185-206.

Gehr, Susan. 2013. Breath of life: Revitalizing California's Native languages through archives. Master's thesis, University of California, San Jose State. San Jose: Paper 4386.

Linn, Mary S. 2014. Living archives: A collaborative-based endangered language archive model. Language Documentation and Description 12. 53-67.