Rudes, Blair Arnold

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RUDES, Blair Arnold

RUDES, Blair Arnold. American, b. 1951. Genres: Language/Linguistics, Anthropology/Ethnology. Career: University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, Fulbright senior visiting professor of Germanic languages, 1976- 78; George Washington University, Washington, DC, adjunct professor of English as a second language, 1978-80; Development Associates, Arlington, VA, senior researcher, 1980-89; First Americans Research, Greensboro, NC, president, 1993-96; Development Associates, senior researcher, 1996-99; University of North Carolina-Charlotte, assistant professor of linguistics, 1999-. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, research director for Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention, 1994. Publications: (with D. Crouse) The Tuscarora Legacy of J.N.B. Hewitt: Materials for the Study of the Tuscarora Language and Culture, 2 vols, 1987; Tuscarora Roots, Stems, and Particles: Towards a Dictionary of Tuscarora, 1987; Tuscarora-English/English-Tuscarora Dictionary, 1999; (with N. Ostler) Proceedings of FEL IV: Endangered Languages and Literacy, 2000. Contributor of articles and monographs to government publications and other periodicals. Address: Department of English, University of North Carolina- Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28223, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]