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 (2024-25)
- Chair: Terry Regier
- Head Graduate Adviser: Peter Jenks
- GSI Advisor: Hannah Sande (fall), Susanne Gahl (spring)
- Head Undergraduate Advisor: Amy Rose Deal
- Equity Advisor: Line Mikkelsen (climate), Susanne Gahl (graduate student admission and advancement), Amy Rose Deal (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: Peter Jenks (ex officio as Head Graduate Advisor), Andrew Garrett, Lev Michael, Johnny Morales Arellano (ex officio as Graduate Student Affairs Officer), Måsi Santos
- Undergraduate Studies: Amy Rose Deal (ex officio as Head Undergraduate Advisor), Martine Alexander (ex officio as Undergraduate Student Advisor)
- Colloquium: Line Mikkelsen, Nicole Holliday, Allegra Robertson, Nafisa Rashid, Becky Everson, Elise Kim
- Webmaster: Lev Michael (fall), Gašper Beguš (spring)
- Calques: Hannah Sande (fall), Isaac Bleaman (spring)
- @BerkeleyLing (social media): Andrew Garrett, Gašper Beguš (spring)
- DEI Action Group: Line Mikkelsen (ex officio as Equity Advisor for climate), La Tasha Mulder, Abby Roberts, Julianne Kapner
- Mentoring Contract Committee: Lev Michael, Zach O'Hagan, Peter Jenks, Johnny Morales Arellano, Marilyn Vihman, Julianne Kapner, Katie Russell
- Community Building Committee: Johnny Morales Arellano, Allegra Robertson
- Writing Group Facilitator: Katie Russell
- DEIB Reading Group: Line Mikkelsen, Christine Beier, Rhosean Asmah
- Graduate Student Representatives to faculty meetings: Shweta Akolkar, Dakota Robinson
- Graduate Assembly student representative: TBA
- UAW 4811 Union representatives: Dakota Robinson, Akil Ismael
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