
Jennifer Thorburn, Marguerite MacKenzie & Laurel Anne Hasler in The Aboriginal Languages Research Laboratory |
Our Team
Principal Investigator:
- Dr. Marguerite MacKenzie
(Head, Linguistics)
Memorial University
Project Manager:
- Laurel Anne Hasler (M.A.)
Memorial University
Co-investigators:
- Dr. Phil Branigan (Memorial University, Linguistics)
- Dr. Barbara Burnaby, (Memorial University, Honorary Research Professor )
- Dr. Marie-Odile Junker (Carleton University, Linguistics)
Website Programmers:
- Matthew Follett (B. Sc.)
- Dougal Graham (B.A.)
- Greg Hedlund (B.Sc.)
Dictionary Editor:
- José Mailhot (Ethnolinguist)
Research Assistants (Currently or Previously Employed):
- Amanda Cunningham (M.A. student), Memorial University
- Sarah Knee (M.A.), Potsdam University
- Will Oxford (M.A. student), Memorial University
- Kevin Terry (Undergraduate student), Memorial University
- Jennifer Thorburn (PhD student), Memorial University
Partners:
- Innu Child, Youth and Family Services Initiative
- Social Health Services Department
![]() |
|
![]() |
![]() NL Legal Aid |
![]() Labrador Legal Services |
![]() Innu Nation |
Collaborators:
- Marie Jourdain (Instructeure de la langue innue; maternelle)
- Peter Armitage (Anthropologist Consultant: Wolverine and Associates)
- Dr. Bill Bavington (Memorial University, Community Health, School of Medicine)
- Dr. Julie Brittain (Memorial University, Linguistics)
- Dr. Sandra Clarke (Memorial University, Linguistics)
- Dr. Carrie Dyck (Memorial University, Linguistics)
- Dr. Marc Glassman (Memorial University, Education)
- Bill Jancewicz (Linguist Consultant, SIL International and the Naskapi Development Corporation of Quebec)
- Yvette Mollen, director for Innu language development (ICEM)
- Dr. David Natcher (Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies)
- Kanani Penashue (Director of Education, SIFN)
- Dr. Dave Philpott (Memorial University, Education)
- Dr. Yvan Rose (Memorial University, Linguistics)
- Dr. Peter Scott (Memorial University, Biology)
- Dr. Élizabeth Simms (Memorial University, Geography)
- Francesca Snow (Innu Language Curriculum Development, Peenamin McKenzie School)
- Dr. Adrian Tanner (Memorial University, Anthropology)
- Dr. Sharon Taylor (Memorial University, Social Work)
- Doris Vollant (Innu-aimun teacher/private contractor)
- Dr. H. Todd Wareham (Memorial University, Computer Science)
Graduate Students Doing Project-Related Research:
- Janet Burgess (Innu-aimun reduplication) Linguistics
- Ron Keating (Innu-aimun Spelling Assistance Software) Computer Science
- Will Oxford (Innu-aimun particles) Linguistics
Website Translators:
- English to French Translation:
- Laurel Anne Hasler, Aneirin Thomas, and other CURA project collaborators
- French to English Translation:
- Laurel-Anne Hasler
- Innu-aimun Translations:
- Provided by a number of CURA project collaborators, including the Innu staff at Peenamin McKenzie School in Sheshatshiu, Labrador
Many other partners and collaborators are involved in the CURA. As various projects become active, we will add more names to this list.








