Mary S., Linn

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Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution

Dr. Mary S. Linn is Curator of Cultural and Linguistic Revitalization at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Her primary research is in effective grassroots strategies in language and cultural reclamation and sustainability, especially in small and minoritized language communities in Oklahoma, Western Europe, and Tibetan areas of China. For thirty years, she has been active in training community members and young linguists in language revitalization.