Suzanne Cook
Adjunct Professor
Linguistics
- Contact:
- scook@uvic.ca
- ORCID:
- 0009-0002-6383-6350
- Credentials:
- MA, UVic
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Maya, Lacandon, ethnobiology, language documentation
Suzanne Cook is an Adjunct Professor in the Linguistics section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures.
Bio
She graduated with an MA from the Department of Linguistics, UVic.ca 2000, and thereafter conducted language documentation on the Lacandon, Maya, of Chiapas, Mexico, with a grant from the Volkswagen Foundation. She has written two books based on her research--Xurt’an: The End of the World and Other Myths, Songs, Charms, and Chants by the Northern Lacandones of Naha' (2019) Nebraska Press, and The Forest of the Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical Guide (2016) Springer-Nature Link.
Selected publications
2019
Xurt’an: The End of the World and Other Myths, Songs, Charms, and Chants by the Northern Lacandones of Naha'
Current research projects/information
She is currently working on a dictionary of Northern Lacandon and an ethnozoological companion book to the ethnobotanical guide.