Nora England Oral History Project

This channel features videos from the Nora England Oral History Project: Ixkeem in Her Own Words. This project consists of a seven-part video series of oral history interviews with Dr. Nora England (1956-2022). The interviews focus on her extraordinary life as a linguist committed to the study of Mayan languages and on her commitment to training speakers of Latin American Indigenous languages in linguistics as a means for promoting Indigenous languages and cultures, intellectual justice, and human rights. These interviews were recorded in the fall 2021 semester in the graduate seminar on Documentary Linguistics in the Linguistics Department at the University of Texas at Austin. At the time, the seminar meet virtually due to the worldwide coronavirus pandemic.