Arienne M. Dwyer is an Emeritus Professor of Linguistic Anthropology and Co-Director of the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Kansas. Her research focuses on language contact and ideology. She has spent 20 years conducting research on Turkic-Mongolic-Sinitic-Tibetic language contact with individuals and communities in Inner and Central Asia, and has directed multiple collaborative documentation and archiving projects. These include work on various languages such as Salar, Kazakh, Uyghur, Monguor, Baonan, and Wutun. She has also acted as a consultant on language documentation and multimedia annotation and archiving for organizations such as IMDI, UNESCO, and EMELD, and has organized conferences and summer schools on language resources and technology. Dwyer is currently working on Middle Turkic texts from the Jarring Collection and on XML technologies, as well as continuing to enhance major primary resources on language contact in Inner Asia and a longitudinal corpus of the Central Asian Uyghur language. She has also chaired the Linguistic Society of America’s Committee on Endangered Language Preservation (CELP).