About Kimberly Johnson, PhD
Kimberly Johnson, PhD, has worked with the Chickasaw Nation in different capacities since 2015, when she began participating in the NSF-funded Chickasaw Verb Project as a graduate student. Johnson joined the Chickasaw Nation Language Preservation Division full time in 2023 as a lead transcriptionist. Her work includes recording and transcribing narratives, maintaining metadata for audio and annotation files included in the Chickasaw Verb Project collection, and coordinating with fluent speakers to translate recordings.
In addition to her collaboration with the Chickasaw Nation, Johnson has been involved in language documentation and community-based language research with the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. Her 2022 dissertation presented a semantic analysis of the verbal and nominal uses of past tenses in the Mvskoke language.
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