In the Berkeley Linguistics Department, faculty, staff, and students work together toward shared goals. Collaborating with staff, faculty serve on department committees and in other leadership positions. Graduate students take the lead in organizing fora and research groups, and represent student interests on committees.
Department officers (2025-26)
- Chair: Peter Jenks
- Head Graduate Adviser: Line Mikkelsen
- GSI Advisor: Susanne Gahl
- Head Undergraduate Advisor: Amy Rose Deal
- Equity Advisor: Terry Regier (climate), Susanne Gahl (graduate student admission and advancement), Andrew Garrett (faculty recruitment)
Department Staff
- Department Manager: Susan Luong
- Graduate Student and Visiting Scholar Services: Johnny Morales Arellano
- Administrative Officer: La Tasha Mulder
- Undergraduate Student Advisor: Martine Alexander
- Information Systems Analyst: Ronald Sprouse
- California Language Archive Manager: Zachary O'Hagan
Committees & Service
- Graduate Studies: Line Mikkelsen (ex officio as Head Graduate Advisor), Terry Regier (equity), Nicole Holliday, Johnny Morales Arellano (ex officio as Graduate Student Affairs Officer)
- Undergraduate Studies: Amy Rose Deal (ex officio as Head Undergraduate Advisor), Martine Alexander (ex officio as Undergraduate Student Advisor)
- Colloquium: Amy Rose Deal (Fall 2025), Lev Michael (Spring 2026), Alan Yu
- Webmaster: Andrew Garrett
- Calques: Isaac Bleaman
- @BerkeleyLing (social media): Gasper Begus, Peter Jenks
- Community Building Committee: Johnny Morales Arellano, Andrew Garrett, Peter Jenks (ex officio)
Research group student organizers
- Fieldwork Forum : Abby Roberts, Tyler Lee-Wynant
- Phonetics and Phonology Phorum : Kai Schenck, Lindsay Hatch
- Syntax & Semantics Circle : Shweta Akolkar, Franco Liu
- Language Revitalization Working Group : Anna Macknick, Julia Peck
- Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkley (SLaB) : Sarah Ertel, Jonathan Jones-Edwards
- Phonology Lab: Amber Galvano, Niko Schwarz
- Language and Cognition: Elise Kim