Jessica Denniss
2013
Australian Universities' John Monash Scholar
PhD
Indigenous, Linguistics, diversity
Toronto
Canada
Arts and Humanities
Jessica has a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Arts in Linguistics, and has worked as a Linguist then Senior Linguist in Port Hedland for the last four years. During this time she worked with the Yinhawangka people to record and document their critically endangered language, spoken today by only a handful of people. She has played a leadership role in her region and her discipline, and her work addresses the loss of indigenous linguistic diversity in Australia (only 20 of 250 languages are still being passed on to children).