Ian HANCOCK
Country of residence
United States
Brief introduction
Nowlin Regents Professor of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin
Director, The Romani Archives and Documentation Center
Commissioner, State Holocaust and Genocide Commission
Education
PhD, London University, Oriental &African Langs., 1971
PhD, Umeå University, honoris causa, 2005
PhD, Constantine University, honoris causa, 2010
Academic profile
Two areas:
Sociolinguistic origin and spread of the Atlantic anglophone creoles
Sociolinguistic history of the Romani language
Publications
- We Are the Romani People: Ame Sam e Rromane Džene. Commissioned by the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation) and published in 2002 by The University of Hertfordshire Press.
- A Handbook of Vlax Romani. Slavica, Inc., Columbus, 1995.
- The Pariah Syndrome: An account of Gypsy Slavery and Persecution. Ann Arbor: Karoma Publishers, 1987. Second edition, 1988. Second printing of second edition, 1990. Widely reviewed, inc. in the New York Times.
Keywords
Roma(ni); ethnicity; language; culture; creole
Contact
xulaj@mail.utexas.edu
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