Position Title
Founder and Director Emerita, Native American Language Center
Professor Emerita
Native American Studies, University of California, Davis
Research Professor in Linguistics.
Macri is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation. She was at UC Davis from 1988
to 2013. As the first Yocha Dehe Endowed Chair in California Indian Studies,
2007–2013, she worked extensively on language revitalization with Native students
at UC Davis and with several Native California communities. She founded the Native
American Language Center where for many years she directed the J. P. Harrington
Database Project, funded by NSF, and the Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project. The
database is now online, directed by Prof. Matthew Looper at Cal State Chico:
https://mayadatabase.org/. She is the author of The Isthmian Script: Deciphering
Ancient Mesoamerican Writing, and is currently working on a book on the origin of
writing in ancient Mesoamerica. Her most recent research reports can be found at
http://glyphdwellers.com/.
Macri is resident of Anacortes, WA, and a frequent visitor to UC Davis. She has four
children, a dozen or so grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren, most of
whom live in California.