| LaVerne Masayesva Jeanne | |
| Fields: | Anthropologist and linguist |
| Workplaces: | University of Nevada at Reno |
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| Academic Advisors: | Ken Hale |
| Known For: | Work on the Hopi language, endangered languages. One of the first two Native Americans to have received a degree in linguistics. |
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LaVerne Masayesva Jeanne is an anthropologist and linguist at the University of Nevada at Reno, where she is an emerita associate professor.[1]
She received her PhD at MIT in 1978, where she studied with linguist Ken Hale.[2] Together with MIT her classmate Navajo Paul R. Platero, Jeanne is one of the first two Native Americans to have received a PhD degree in linguistics.[3]
Her work has been primarily focused on the Hopi language (her mother language). Her 1978 thesis (supervised by Hale) was entitled Aspects of Hopi Grammar.[4] She also co-authored a heavily cited article in Language with Hale, Michael Krauss, Colette Craig, and others on the state of endangered languages.[5] She was also involved with Hopi revitalization projects.[6] [7] [8]