Carolyn E. Vieira-Martinez, PhD

Long Beach, CA United States

Education

Carolyn Vieira-Martinez joined the History Department at Chapman University in 2005 as a specialist in Central African History and African Languages. Her dissertation entitled “Building Kimbundu” combined historical linguistics methodology with GIS technology to study the social history of central Angola and the construction of community through language. She has taught computer mediated instruction methods and qualitative data analysis at universities including the University of San Diego and the University of Texas, Houston. Her ASILI© African Scholarly Integrated Language Inquiry database system is used by scholars to facilitate cooperative interdisciplinary research with Bantu langu