Words bring United States scholar to ANU

US scholar, Margit Bowler, will soon call ANU home as she embarks on research and study as a 2011 Fulbright Scholar to Australia. Ms Bowler from Reed College will complete work in the field of Indigenous languages.

As a 2011 Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar Ms Bowler will study sentence structure and meaning in Walpiri, an Australian Indigenous language which is in danger of extinction. She will be mentored by Professor Jane Simpson, head of the School of Languages and Linguistics in the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, and will also complete fieldwork in the Northern Territory.