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Southern Methodist University
- 1985, Ph.D. Anthropology
Dissertation title: “The Bajju
of Central Nigeria: A Case Study of Religious and Social Change”
- 1985, M.A. in Anthropology
University of Michigan
- 1961. MA Linguistics
University of Oklahoma
- 1959, 1960. Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Biblical Seminary (now named New York Theological Seminary)
- 1958-59. Religious Education
University of California at Los Angeles
- 1954-58 BA Anthropology
Glendale Community College, Glendale, CA
- 1956, 1957 (Sum) Chemistry, English
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Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, Dallas, Texas
Dallas, TX 1999 - Present
- Associate Professor
- 1999-Present
- Courses Taught
- 1999-Present:
LD4370
Cultural Anthropology
LD5340
Ethnographic Research Methods
LD5373
Religion and Worldview (with Fran Popovitch)
LD5374
Christianity Across Cultures
LD5377
Area Studies: Sub-Saharan Africa
LD5379
Sustainable Development and the Role of Change Agents
University of Texas at Arlington
1976-1982, 1986-99
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor
- 1986-99: Sub-Saharan African Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology,
Field Perspectives on Cultural Anthropology. Conferences courses:
Anthropological Field Methods, Akan of Ghana, Nilo-Saharan Linguistics
with emphasis on Kalinjen, Medical Anthropology
- Linguistics and Anthropology
- 1980, '82: Teaching Assistant, Seminar on Sub-Saharan Africa
1978-79: Teaching Assistant, Linguistic Field Methods
1976-77: Teaching Assistant, Phonetics
University of Texas at Dallas
1986
- Anthropology
- 1986: Instructor, Culture Region: Africa
Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA
1995
- Anthropology
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- 1995: Instructor, Tutorial "The Translator in the Translation
Context,"
for Christeena Alaichamy.
Southern Methodist University
1980-1982
- Anthropology
- 1982: Research Assistant, Birth Weights Project - rural Benin
1980-81: Teaching Assistant, Cultural Anthropology
University of Oregon
1987, '88, '90, '91
- Anthropology
- 1987, 88, 90, 91 Instructor, Department of Linguistics (Anthropological
Perspectives for Field Linguists)
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
1983-1984
- Anthropology
- 1983-84 Research Associate, Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
1960-1964
- Linguistics
- 1960-61: Teaching Assistant, Phonetics
1964: Teaching Assistant, English Language Institute (English
Pronunciation to Japanese students)
University of Oklahoma
1961, '62, '72
- Linguistics
- 1961, 62, 72 (Sum.) Teaching Assistant, Summer Institute
of Linguistics (Phonetics and Phonology)
SIL International
Dallas, TX 1959 - Present
- Fieldwork
- 1992 As a SIL International Anthropology Consultant I attended
and consulted at an SIL Africa Area Anthropology Consultants
Training Seminar, and helped edit five anthropology papers from
Sudan, held at Limuru and Nairobi, Kenya (3 1/2 weeks)
1983-84 Dissertation fieldwork, Nigeria, West Africa
1980 Linguistic research on Tyap phonology (5 weeks)
1967-76 Linguistic and Anthropological fieldwork on the
Bajju (Kaje) together with my husband, Dr. Norris McKinney,
in Nigeria, West Africa (October 1967, June 1971, June 1972-June
1976), which resulted in linguistic analyses, anthropological
analyses, literacy materials, and a translation of the New
Testament into Jju.
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Papers Presented
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| 1996 |
“The Continuity of Ethnic Tensions
in Kaduna State, Nigeria,” Presented at the meetings of
the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco,
CA, November 1996. |
| 1995 |
“Oral Traditions: A Key to Understanding
the Community,” presented at the meetings of the American
Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, November
1995. Presented on a panel I organized and chaired on
“Understanding the Community in Fieldwork: Individual
Scholars to Team Research.” |
| 1994 |
“Worldview Reflected in Bajju Proverbs,” (revised paper from the LASSO meetings), co-authored with
Norris P. McKinney, presented at the meetings of the American
Anthropological Association, Altanta, GA, December 1994. |
| 1993 |
“Worldview as Reflected in Bajju Proverbs,” co-authored with Norris P. McKinney, presented at the
meetings of the Linguistic Society of the Southwest, Arlington,
TX, October, 1993. |
| 1992 |
Member of panel on the “Contributions of
Anthropology to Missions in the '90s,” presented at the
meetings of the Evangelical Missiological Society, San
Francisco, November 1992. |
| 1992 |
“Persistence of Belief in Supernatural Power
Among Bajju Christians,” presented at the meetings of
the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco,
CA, December 1992. |
| 1992 |
“Bajju Conversion to Christianity,” presented
at the Africa Area Anthropology Consultants Training Seminar,
Breckenhurst, Kenya, July 1992. |
| 1989 |
“Bajju Christian Conversion,” presented
at the meetings of the American Anthropological Association,
Washington, DC, November 1989. |
| 1988 |
“Church and Mission Sponsored Development in Southern
Zaria, Nigeria,” presented at the meetings of the American
Anthropological Association, Phoenix, AZ, November 1988.
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| 1987 |
“Wives and Sisters, Bajju Marital Patterns,” presented
at the meetings of the American Anthropological Association,
Chicago, IL, November 1987. |
| 1977 |
“Plural Verb Roots in Kaje,” presented at the 8th Conference
on African Linguistics, ULCA, Los Angeles, CA, April 1977. |
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Lectures
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| 2000 |
I presented the paper on “Religious and Ethnic Conflict
in Northern Nigeria” which is co-authored with James Kantiok.
It was presented at the Academic Forum, GIAL, Dallas, TX,
November 2000. |
| 1993 1994 1997 |
Lectures in Perspectives in World Christian
Missions courses given in Austin, TX; Wichita, KA: 2 lectures
in Houston, TX; College Station, TX, in 1989, 90; 3 lectures
in Denver and Ft. Collins, CO, in 1992; 1 lecture in El Paso,
TX, in 1993, 1 lecture in Dallas, TX, in 1994, 3 lectures
in Houston, TX, 1997. |
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Articles (*Indicates peer reviewed articles)
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| Forthcoming |
“The Political Context of Religious Change Among the
Bajju of Southern Zaria,” To be published in Nigeria.
Forthcoming Review of New Religious Movements in Nigeria,
edited by Rosalind I.J. Hackett, and Texts on Zulu Religion,
Traditional Zulu Ideas About God, edited by Irving Hexham,
Canadian Journal of African Studies. |
| 2000 |
Articles on “Shaman and Shamanism, Religious Typologies,
and Primal Religions”. In the Evangelical Dictionary of
World Missions, Baker Press. |
| 1999 |
Review of Invitation to Cross-Cultural Theology, Case
Studies in Vernacular Theologies by William Dyrness, Zondervan.
Notes on Anthropology 3(4):24-26. |
| 1999 |
Review of Telling Our Selves, Ethnicity and Discourse
in Southwestern Alaska by Chase Hensel, Oxford University
Press. Notes on Anthropology. 3(3):37-39. |
| 1996 |
“Oral Traditions: A Key to Understanding the Community.”
Notes on Anthropology and Intercultural Community Work
24:1-11. |
| 1996 |
Review of Darwin on Trial, by Phillip Johnson, Notes
on Anthropology and Intercultural Community Work 21:24-25.
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| 1995 |
Review of Fieldwork in Developing
Countries, ed. by
Stephen Devereux and John Hoddinott. Notes on Anthropology
and Intercultural Community Work 18:41-43. |
| 1994 |
Review of Transculturation, by Daniel Shaw, Notes on
Anthropology and Intercultural Community Work 13:40-41. |
| 1994 |
*“Conversion to Christianity, A Bajju Case Study,”
Missiology XXII(2):147-165. |
| 1992 |
*“Wives and Sisters, Bajju Marital Patterns,” Ethnology
xxxi(1):75-87. |
| 1990 |
*“Which Language: Trade or Minority?” Missiology XVIII(3):279-290. |
| 1989 |
Review of The Good Things in
Life: A Study of the Traditional Religious Culture
of the Yoruba People, by Roland Hallgren.
American Anthropologist 91(1):217. |
| 1987 |
Review of Religion and Society in Central Africa; The
BaKongo of Lower Zaire, by Wyatt MacGaffey. American Anthropologist
89(2):489. |
| 1986 |
*Carolyn Sargent, Carol McKinney, and Ron Wetherington,
“Socioeconomic Status and the Incidence of Low Birthweight
Among the Bariba of Benin,” East African Medical Journal
63(2):91098. |
| 1986 |
“Retention of Traditional Religious Beliefs by Bajju
Christians,” Notes on Anthropology, Special Issue No.
1:58-66. |
| 1985 |
Review of Cherubim and Seraphim, The History of an
African Independent Church, by J. Akinyele Omoyajowo.
Canadian Journal of African Studies 19(1):247-249. |
| 1983 |
*“A Linguistic Shift in Kaje, Kagoro, and Katab Kinship
Terminology,” Ethnology XXII:281-293. |
| 1982 |
Noss, Philip, ed., Grafting Old Rootstock, Carol V.
McKinney, Volume Editor, Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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| 1981 |
Review of The Cultural Context of Learning and Thinking,
by Michael Cole, John Gay, Joseph A. Glick, and Donald
W. Sharp. Notes on Linguistics. January. |
| 1979 |
McKinney, Carol V. and Norris P., “Instrumental Phonetics,
an Aid to Better Orthographies,” Notes on Literacy. |
| 1979 |
“Plural Verb Roots in Kaje,” Afrika und Übersee
LXII(2):107-117.
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| 1976 |
“Cultural Change and its Relation to Literacy,” Missiology
IV(1):65-74. |
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Books
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| Forthcoming |
A Taste of Anthropology for Field Linguists. |
| 2000 |
Globe Trotting in Sandals, A Field Guide to Cultural
Research, 337pp. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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| 1996 |
Pike, Kenneth L., Gary F. Simons, Carol V. McKinney, and
Donald A. Burquest, edited and introduced by Kurt R. Jankowsky.
The Mystery of Culture Contacts, Historical Reconstruction,
and Text Analysis, An Emic Approach. Washington, D.C.:
Georgetown University Press. Japanese translation June 2000.
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Awards
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1984/85
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Garry A. Weber Fellow, Southern Methodist University |
| 1982/83 |
Staff Scholarship, Summer Institute of Linguistics |
Societies
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American Anthropological Association
Society for Medical Anthropology (19 - 1994)
Association of Africanist Anthropologists |
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- Committee Service
- 2000-present: Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics:
Academic Affairs Committee, Scholarship Committee
1989 -1993: Center Steering Committee, International Linguistics
Center
1986-present: SIL International Personnel Committee
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Board of Directors
- 1993-1995: Wycliffe Bible Translators, U.S. (First Alternate)
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