CV
Kensy Cooperrider
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Cognitive Science
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
email: kensy.cooperrider AT case.edu
http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~kcooperr/
updated: May 2012
EDUCATION
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 2005 - 2011
PhD in Cognitive Science
Dissertation: "Reference in action: Links between pointing and language" (chair: Rafael Núñez)
Duke University, Durham, NC, 1999 - 2003
BA in Linguistics, Summa cum laude
RESEARCH INTERESTS
gesture; spatial language and cognition; demonstratives; linguistic and cognitive diversity
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
Núñez, Rafael, Kensy Cooperrider, D Doan, and Jürg Wassmann (2012, in press). Contours of time: Topographic construals of past, present, and future in the Yupno Valley of Papua New Guinea. Cognition. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.03.007 [link]
Núñez, Rafael, Kensy Cooperrider, and Jürg Wassmann (2012). Number concepts without number lines in an indigenous group of Papua New Guinea. PLoS ONE, 7(4), e35662. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035662 [link]
Cooperrider, Kensy (2011). Reference in action: Links between pointing and language. Doctoral dissertation, University of California, San Diego. [abstract] [please email for full PDF]
Cooperrider, Kensy and Rafael Núñez (2010). Re-mapping topographic terms indoors: A study of everyday spatial construals in the mountains of Papua New Guinea. CRL Technical Reports, 22 (2), pp. 3-9. [PDF]
Cooperrider, Kensy and Rafael Núñez (2009). Across time, across the body: Transversal temporal gestures. Gesture, 9 (2), pp. 181-206. [link]
Cooperrider, Kensy and Rafael Núñez (2007). Doing time: Speech, gesture, and the conceptualization of time. CRL Technical Reports, 19 (3), pp. 3-19. [PDF] [note: earlier version of ‘Across time, across the body’]
In progress
Cooperrider, Kensy and Rafael Núñez (submitted). Nose-pointing: Notes on a facial gesture of Papua New Guinea.
BOOK REVIEWS
Cooperrider, Kensy (2011). [Review of Pragmatics and nonverbal communication, by Tim Wharton]. Gesture, 11 (1), pp. 81-88. [link] [see also our subsequent exchange]
Cooperrider, Kensy (2009). [Review of Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction, edited by N. J. Enfield and S. C. Levinson]. Gesture, 9 (3), pp. 373-380. [link]
Cooperrider, Kensy (2009). [Review of Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of the Mind, by Evan Thompson]. Philosophical Psychology, 22 (2), pp. 242-6. [link]
CONFERENCE TALKS
Cooperrider, Kensy (2010, November). "Indicating selves, embodying others." American Anthropological Association 109th annual meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. [part of panel titled Materialization: Gesture and Embodiment in the Semiotics of Emergence]
Cooperrider, Kensy and Barbara Dancygier (2010, September). "Alternativity and stance in co-speech headshakes." Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language/ Embodied and Situated Language Processing, UCSD.
Cooperrider, Kensy and Rafael Núñez (2010, September). "Mapping macro-space in a micro-world: A study of everyday construal in Papua New Guinea." Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language/ Embodied and Situated Language Processing, UCSD. (poster)
Cooperrider, Kensy (2010, July). "Pointing to the self: Metonymy and iconicity in body-directed gestures." 4th International Society for Gesture Studies Conference, Frankfurt/ Oder, Germany. [part of panel titled Pointing Practices]
Núñez, Rafael, Kensy Cooperrider, and Jürg Wassmann (2010, July). "Tomorrow, uphill: Geocentric temporal gestures in the remote mountains of Papua New Guinea." 4th International Society for Gesture Studies Conference, Frankfurt/ Oder, Germany.
Cooperrider, Kensy and Rafael Núñez (2008, October). "The varieties of composite reference." Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language 9, Case Western Reserve University.
Cooperrider, Kensy (2007, May). “Doing time: Gesture, conceptualization, and interaction.” Part of joint session w/ Rafael Núñez, Philosophical Collaborations on Embodiment, University of Oregon.
TEACHING
Instructor
Case Western Reserve University
Spring 2012. Special Topics: Cognitive Diversity [COGS 301/401]
Spring 2012. Cognitive Linguistic Theory II [COGS 407]
Fall 2011. Human Cognition in Evolution & Development [COGS 201]
Fall 2011. Cognitive Linguistics Workshop [COGS 408]
UCSD
Summer 2011. Gesture and Cognition [COGS 155]
Winter 2010. Gesture and Cognition [COGS 155]
Summer 2009. Special Topics: Human interaction [COGS 160]
Teaching Assistant
UCSD
Language [COGS 101C] 4 quarters
Design & Analysis of Experiments [COGS 14] 3 quarters
Cognitive Ethnography [COGS 102B] 2 quarters
Language Comprehension [COGS 153] 1 quarter
HONORS, AWARDS, and GRANTS
2012, American Philosophical Society, Franklin Grant ($2000) for project ‘Spatial reasoning and bilingualism in Juchitán, Mexico’
2011, UCSD, Dean of Social Sciences Travel award ($250)
2011, UCSD, Departmental Award for Superior Teaching for ‘Language’ [COGS 101C]
2010–11, UCSD, Predoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (part 2/2)
2010, UCSD, Dean of Social Sciences Travel award ($500)
2009, UCSD, Friends of the International Center, Diane Lin Scholarship ($2000)
2008–9, UCSD, Center for Research in Language, Predoctoral Training Fellowship in "Language, Communication, and the Brain"
2008, UCSD, Department of Cognitive Science, Glushko Award for Graduate Excellence ($2000)
2008, UCSD, Departmental Award for Superior Teaching for ‘Language’ [COGS 101C]
2005–6, UCSD, Predoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (part 1/2)
2003, Duke, Graduation with Highest Distinction (awarded for honors thesis)
2002, Duke, Phi Beta Kappa
ET CETERA
Reviewing: Gesture, Spatial Cognition & Computation
Assistant organizer, Joint meeting of CSDL/ ESLP, spring 2010 – summer 2010
Senior Teaching Assistant, Department of Cognitive Science, fall 2008 - spring 2010
Co-organizer (with Rafael Núñez), Gesture Group San Diego (GGSD), fall 2008 - spring 2010
Editor, embodied talk, Cryogenically frozen blog on face-to-face interaction, fall 2007 - spring 2009