This website is no longer updated and has been replaced with a static copy. The Spatial History Project was active at Stanford University from 2007-2022, engaging in dozens of collaborative projects led by faculty, staff, graduate students, post-docs, visiting scholars and others at Stanford and beyond. More than 150 undergraduate students from more than a dozen disciplines contributed to these projects. In addition to a robust intellectual exchange built through these partnerships, research outputs included major monographs, edited volumes, journal articles, museum exhibitions, digital articles, robust websites, and dozens of lightweight interactive visualizations, mostly developed with Adobe Flash (now defunct). While most of those publications live on in other forms, the content exclusive to this website is preserved in good faith through this static version of the site. Flash-based content is partially available in emulated form using the Ruffle emulator.
Mapping Endangered Languages
Directed by Sarah Ogilvie (Linguistics), the Mapping Endangered Languages Project focuses on endangered languages around the world and efforts to preserve and revitalize them. It investigates ways to maintain, preserve, and revitalize endangered cultures through the creation of dictionaries and other pedagogic materials. On average, one language dies every two weeks, and it is feared that half of the world’s 6800 languages will disappear by the end of this century. This project maps endangered languages according to their degrees of 'health' and 'vitality', and plots efforts to revitalize them through the creation of dictionaries.
Research Assistants include Kenny Smith, Gwynn Galen Lyons, and Angelica Previte.
Lead Researcher
