Daisy Rosenblum

Daisy Rosenblum is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Her research focuses on multi-modal documentation and revitalization of Indigenous languages, particularly Kʷak̓ʷala (a Wakashan language of British Columbia), emphasizing community collaboration. She also investigates spatial grammar, contact linguistics, and the decolonization of linguistic research.

Education: B.A. in Linguistic Anthropology and Folklore (City University of New York), B.F.A. in Studio Art (Brooklyn College, CUNY). She has held visiting affiliations at UC Berkeley and UCSB.

Research interests include language reclamation, documentation workflows, digital repatriation, and the intersection of Indigenous knowledge with traditional ecological and spatial grammars. She teaches courses such as Culture and Communication (ANTH 217) and collaborates with the K?ak??k?w?ak? Nation to create annotated speech corpora archived at UBC and SOAS.