Biography

Dr. David Delgado Shorter joined the faculty as tenured professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance in 2008. His 2009 book received the Chicago Prize for best book that year in Folklore Studies. In 2013, Shorter received the UCLA Academic Senate’s Distinguished Teaching Award. He is the director of Wiki for Indigenous Languages, a project that offers a digital alternative for Indigenous language revitalization by offering a language translator, wiktionary, games, and social media site to Indigenous communities. Shorter is also the director of the Archive of Healing. Most recently, he has been writing essays and delivery talks on extra-terrestrial contact.

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