Ivan Roksandic
Title: Faculty Member, Program Coordinator - Interdisciplinary Linguistics
Phone: 204.786.9078
Office: 4CM19
Building: Centennial
Email: i.roksandic@uwinnipeg.ca
Biography:
Ivan Roksandic (PhD University of British Columbia) is a broadly trained linguist with a background in archaeology, epigraphy, history of script, and mythopoeia. His current research deals with indigenous languages of South America, specifically with Arawakan and Jê families. He is interested in topics such as the spread of Arawakan speech communities across northeastern portion of South America, the problems of onomastics in Macro-Jê languages, and the subdivisions of that language family. Furthermore, combining linguistic and archaeological lines of research, he explores the patterns of successive migrations and colonization of the Caribbean islands and the linguistic heritage of different pre-Colombian ethnic groups as expressed in the toponymy of this region.
His other field of study concerns the influence of, and complex interrelations between, mythology and folk traditions, on one hand, and literature, written history, and cultural heritage, on the other.
Courses:
ANTH-2400 (3) Method and Theory in Linguistic Anthropology
ANTH-2402 (3) Morphology
ANTH-2404 (3) Languages of the World
ANTH-3400 (3) Language Typology
ANTH-3406 (3) Comparative Indo-European Linguistics and Mythology
ANTH-3411 (3) Indigenous Languages of South America
ANTH-4400 (3) Language Typology
ANTH-4406 (3) Comparative Indo-European Linguistics and Mythology
ANTH-4411 (3) Indigenous Languages of South America
LING-1001 (6) Introduction to Linguistics
LING-2002 (3) Morphology
LING-2102 (3) Method and Theory in Linguistic Anthropology
LING-2103 (3) Languages of the World
LING-3006 (3) Language Typology
LING-3104 (3) Indigenous Languages of South America
LING-3406 (3) Comparative Indo-European Linguistics and Mythology
LING-4006 (3) Language Typology
LING-4406 (3) Comparative Indo-European Linguistics and Mythology
LING-3104 (3) Indigenous Languages of South America
Publications:
Roksandic, M., Musiba, C., Radović, P., Lindal, J., Wu, X. J., Figueiredo, E., ... & Bae, C. J. (2023). Change in biological nomenclature is overdue and possible. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7(8), 1166-1167.
Plens, C. R., de Souza, C. D., Roksandic, I., Górka, K., & Roksandic, M. (2021). Surviving the Contact. The Xavante and the Demographic Iimpact of Epidemics on Brazilian Indigenous People from Colonization to the Military Dictatorship. Cadernos do LEPAARQ (UFPEL), 18(35), 146-173.
Plens, C. R., Souza, C. D. D., Roksandic, I., Górka, K., & Roksandic, M. (2021). The Xavante and the demographic impact of epidemics on Brazilian indigenous people from Colonization to the Military Dictatorship.
Nägele, K., Posth, C., Iraeta Orbegozo, M., Chinique de Armas, Y., Hernández Godoy, S. T., González Herrera, U. M., ... & Schroeder, H. (2020). Genomic insights into the early peopling of the Caribbean. Science, 369(6502), 456-460.
Berman, M. J. (2018). Cuban Archaeology in the Caribbean, by Ivan Roksandic (ed.) & Indigenous Passages to Cuba, 1515–1900, by Jason M. Yaremko. New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 92(3-4), 391-394.
Smith, D. G., de Armas, Y. C., Suárez, R. R., Buhay, W. M., Roksandic, I., Peros, M. C., & Roksandic, M. (2018). Straddling the subsistence divide: the case of Canímar Abajo and contemporaneous sites in Northwestern Cuba. In The archaeology of Caribbean and Circum-Caribbean farmers (6000 BC-AD 1500) (pp. 98-112). Routledge.
Roksandic, M., Buhay, B., Byers, D., Ríos, L. L., Duncan, H. J. C., & Roksandic, I. (2018). The earliest burial from the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua: the Angi shell-matrix site. Antiquity, 92(366), 1478–1491. doi:10.15184/aqy.2018.142
Roksandic, I., & Roksandic, M. (2018). Peopling of the Caribbean. In New Perspectives on the Peopling of the Americas (pp. 199-223). Tübingen: Kerns Verlag.
Roksandic, I. (Ed.). (2016). Cuban Archaeology in the Caribbean. University Press of Florida.
Roksandic, M., Alarie, K., Rodríguez Suárez, R., Huebner, E., & Roksandic, I. (2016). Not of African descent: Dental modification among indigenous Caribbean people from Canimar Abajo, Cuba. Plos one, 11(4), e0153536.
Roksandic, I. (2015). Reconsideration of Taíno and pre-Taíno toponymy in Cuba. In Proceedings of the 25th Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology. San Juan, Universidad de Puerto Rico.
Roksandic, M., Mark Buhay, W., Chinique de Armas, Y., Rodríguez Suárez, R., Peros, M. C., Roksandic, I., … Gray Smith, D. (2015). Radiocarbon and Stratigraphic Chronology of Canímar Abajo, Matanzas, Cuba. Radiocarbon, 57(5), 755–763. doi:10.2458/azu_rc.57.18313
Roksandic, I. (2011). Jaqueline McLeod Rogers and Catherine G. Taylor, Across the Disciplines: Academic Writing and Reading, Toronto: Pearson Canada, 2011. 470 pages. Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 23(1).
Roksandic, I. (2002). The Ouroboros seizes its tale: strategies of mythopoeia in narrative fiction from the mid-fifties to the mid-seventies: six examples (Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia).