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/ LING-2102 (3) Method and Theory in Linguistic Anthropology
ANTH-2402/ LING-2002 (3) Morphology
ANTH-2404/ LING-2103 (3) Languages of the World
ANTH-3400/4400/ LING-3006/4006 (3) Language Typology
ANTH-3406 (3) Comparative Indo-European Linguistics and Mythology
ANTH-3411/ LING-3104 (3) Indigenous Languages of South America
ANTH-4406/ LING-3406/4406 (3) Comparative Indo-European Linguistics and Mythology
ANTH-4411 (3) Indigenous Languages of South America

LING-1001 (6) Introduction to Linguistics

Publications:

Ferraz Gerardi, Fabrício & Ivan Roksandic. (2024). Universal dependencies ud_xavante-xdt. https://github.com/UniversalDependencies/UD_Xavante-XDT/tree/dev. Version 2.15.

Roksandic, I., and K. Naegele. (2023). "Peopling of the Caribbean." In: Encyclopedia of Archaeology, 2nd ed., vol. 3, Ed. T. Rehren, and E. Nikita, (pp. 292-300). London: Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90799-6.00024-0

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. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134360-09203008

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. (Ed.). (2016). “Introduction.” In Cuban archaeology in the Circum-Caribbean Context, (pp.1-6). Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Roksandic, I. (Ed.). (2016). “The role of the Nicaraguan Rise in the early peopling of the Greater Antilles.” In Cuban archaeology in the Circum-Caribbean Context, (pp. 7-16). Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

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. (2015). “Pre-contact place names in the Western Caribbean: An analysis of their morphological and phonological characteristics,” Proceedings of the 20th Biennial Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics. Trinidad: Society for Caribbean Linguistics [UW].

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). https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.13

Roksandic, I. (2010) The Ouroboros Seizes Its Tale: Strategies of Mythopoeia in Narrative Fiction. Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing.