Shelley Gay Ashdown, D.Miss.

Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics
E-mail: shelley_ashdown@gial.edu

Education
Professional Experience
Publications
Presentations

Education

Biola University

2001, Doctor of Missiology
Dissertation: The Foundational Nature of Self in Ndorobo World View

Assemblies of God Theological Seminary

1980, M.A. in Cross-Cultural Communications

Southern California College

1978, B.A. in Religion and Psychology

Professional Experience

Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, Dallas, TX
2004 - Present

Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics: AL5314 Culture, Language and Mind
AL5372 Social and Political Organization
AL5374 Christianity Across Cultures
LD5373 Religion and Worldview

Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology, Nairobi, Kenya
2001-2004

Lecturer:: Sociolinguistics, Bible Use in African Contexts, Principles of Teaching,
Sociology of Education, Music I & II.

Oregon SIL, Northwest Christian College, Eugene, Oregon
2001

Associate Professor: Cultural Anthropology and Ethnographic Research Methods.

Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
1992-1994

Associate Professor: Anthropological Linguistics, The Bible as Literature.

SIL International, Dallas, TX
1994 - Present

SIL Anthropology Consultant

Publications

2010.	The Influence of Social Worlds on Engaging Ideas. Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching 3(1):7-23. Paper posted at: http://www.nu.edu/assets/resources/pageResources/journal-of-research-in-innovative-teaching-volume-3.pdf
2010.	Applied Instructional Model for Managerial Intercultural Competence. 17th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences 17(1):21-34. Paper posted at: http://asbbs.org/files/2010/ASBBS2010v1/PDF/A/Ashdown.pdf
2009.	The Socio-Cultural Role of the Monster Image in Ndorobo Folklore. Conference Proceedings for 7th Global Conference on Monsters and the Monstrous: Myth and Metaphor of Enduring Evil, sponsored by Inter-Disciplinary.net and hosted by Mansfield College, Oxford University, Sept. 14-17, 2009. Paper posted at: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/ashdownpaper.pdf
2009.	The Structure of Cognition Governing Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organizations. The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management 9(4):155-168. Paper posted at: http://ijm.cgpublisher.com/
2009.	Torobo World View Construct of Nature. InterCulture: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6(2). Paper posted at: http://dih.fsu.edu/interculture/volume6_2/Ashdown.pdf
2009.	Efficacy of Whole Language Narrative for Vernacular Literacy Education among Thai Language Minorities. In Annals of Language and Learning: Proceedings of the 2009 International Online Language Conference (IOLC 2009). Azadeh Shafaei and Mehran Nejati, eds. pp. 317-329. Boca Raton, Florida: Universal Publishers.
2010.	2008. The Relationship Between Ndorobo Personality and African Traditional Religion as a Human Development Issue. The African Symposium 8(2):128-136. Paper posted at: http://www.ncsu.edu/aern/TAS8.2/TAS8.2Shelly.pdf
2008.	Consideration of Converging World Views: Christianity & African Traditional Religion Among U.S. Immigrants. Conference proceedings for Conference on Christianity, Culture, and Diversity in America: Conversations about Diversity-A Kingdom Calling, hosted by Huntington University, Indiana, Nov. 14, 2008. Paper posted at: http://www.huntington.edu/cccda/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/ashdown-christianity-atr.pdf
2008.	World View Methodological Questions for Comparative Religion. Presented at the 2nd International Online Conference on Religious Studies: “Comparative Religion, From Subject to Problem,” sponsored by the Moscow Society for the Study of Religions, October 2008. Paper posted at: http://www.e-religions.net/page.php?id=10&comments=1
2008.	The Supernatural Category of the Non-physical Self in Ndorobo World View. In VIVA Africa 2008: International Conference on African Studies. The University of West Bohemia. Pilsen, Czech Republic.
2007.	Investigating World View Through Narrative Analysis. GIAL Electronic Notes Series 1(2), <http://www.gial.edu/GIALens/issues.htm>
1994.	Kinship Analysis of the Western Red Karen. Occasional Papers. Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand: Payap University Press.

Presentations

2010	The Torobo Social Construct of Ethics. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwest Commission of Religious Studies, Strand: Ethics, Society and Cultural Analysis, Dallas, TX, March 13.
2009.	A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Go’el in Deutero-Isaiah. Presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting for Society of Biblical Literature, Section: Cognitive Linguistics in Biblical Interpretation, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 21.
2009.	The Socio-Cultural Role of the Monster Image in Ndorobo Folklore. Presented at the 7th Global Conference on Monsters and the Monstrous: Myth and Metaphor of Enduring Evil, Mansfield College, Oxford, England, September 16.
2009.	The Structure of Cognition Governing Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations. Presented at the 9th International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, June 27.
2009.	Socio-Cultural Model of Analyzing Educational Environments Across Cultures. Presented at Annual Meeting of the Association of Teacher Educators, Dallas, Texas, February 17.
2008.	The Supernatural Category of the Non-physical Self in Ndorobo World View. Presented at VIVA Africa 2008: Proceedings of the IIIrd International Conference on African Studies, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic, March 25, 2008.
2008.	The Ceremony of Eldership Among the Ndorobo of Kenya: Notions of Obligation and Time Continuity. Presented at 12th Annual Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration and Public Display, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, September 27.
2008.	Consideration of Converging World Views: Christianity & African Traditional Religion Among U.S. Immigrants. Presented at the Conference on Christianity, Culture, and Diversity in America: Conversations about Diversity-A Kingdom Calling, hosted by Huntington University, Indiana, Nov. 14.

Professional Societies

Association of Teacher Educators
American Society of Missiology
Society of Biblical Literature