Dr. Annette Harrison

B.A. in French (Northwest College)

D.S. in Françaises Modernes (Alliance Française)

M.A. in Linguistics (University of California - Santa Barbara)

Ph.D. in Linguistics: Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (University of California - Santa Barbara)

Dr. Harrison teaches courses in language and culture acquisition, historical linguistics, sociology, cultural anthropology, intercultural communication, TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), and social justice. She is also involved in leading overseas service trips and pre-field training for those trips. Corban students have served overseas in such diverse locations as Cameroon, Czech Republic, Germany, Columbia, Greece, Turkey and the Philippines.

Dr. Harrison served with Wycliffe Bible Translators for 23 years in France, Burkina Faso, the Republic of Niger, the Republic of Congo, and the Central African Republic. During that time, she studied people groups in west and central Africa in order to recommend Bible translation priorities and strategies. She also taught linguistics for Bible translation at the Bangui Evangelical School of Theology. She speaks several languages and has learned about many more through linguistic research.

Dr. Harrison has written papers and book reviews on language use in multilingual societies, discourse and pragmatics in African languages, language change in French, dialectology, and sociocultural research methods. She has presented at conferences and taught in the United States, Canada, Germany, Central African Republic, Kenya, South Africa, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Her current research interests include multilingualism and diversity in church life, linguistic theory for language learners, research ethics in cross-cultural contexts, and cross-cultural engagement at home and abroad.