Faculty

Gašper Beguš

Associate Professor of Linguistics
Email: begus@berkeley.edu
Office: 1213 Dwinelle Hall
Research and teaching: Language in humans, animals, and machines, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Historical Indo-European linguistics, Phonology, Phonetics, Neurolinguistics, Language and law

Isaac L. Bleaman

Associate Professor of Linguistics, Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Jewish Studies
Email: bleaman@berkeley.edu
Office: 1216 Dwinelle Hall
Research and teaching:  Sociolinguistics, language variation and change, sociophonetics, sociosyntax, corpus methods, language contact, multilingualism, language planning, language and ethnicity, Yiddish, Jewish language varieties

Mosiah Bluecloud

Mosiah Bluecloud Assistant Researcher, Incoming Assistant Professor (starting 2027/28)
Email: mosiahbluecloud@berkeley.edu 
Office: 1215 Dwinelle Hall
Research and teaching: Adult Indigenous language acquisition, immersion based language teaching, curriculum development

Amy Rose Deal

Amy Rose Deal Professor of Linguistics
Email: ardeal@berkeley.edu
Office: 1223 Dwinelle Hall
Research and teaching: Syntax, semantics, fieldwork, Nez Perce

Susanne Gahl

Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science
Email: gahl@berkeley.edu
Office: 1220 Dwinelle Hall
Research and teaching: Psycholinguistics; language production and comprehension; aphasia

Andrew Garrett

Andrew Garrett

Professor of Linguistics, Nadine M. Tang and Bruce L. Smith Professor of Cross-Cultural Social Sciences
Pronouns: he, him, his
Email: garrett@berkeley.edu
Office: 1218 Dwinelle Hall
Research and teaching: Historical linguistics; Indo-European; Karuk, Yurok, and California Indian languages; language documentation and revitalization

Sherry Hicks

Sherry Hicks Lecturer in Linguistics
Email: sherry.hicks@berkeley.edu
Office: 1224 Dwinelle Hall
Research and teaching: American Sign Language

Nicole Holliday

Nicole Holliday Associate Professor of Linguistics
Email: nicole.holliday@berkeley.edu
Office: 1222 Dwinelle Hall
Research and teaching: Sociophonetics, prosody, African American English, speech technology

Sharon Inkelas

Sharon Inkelas Distinguished Professor of Linguistics; Deputy Compliance Officer and Special Faculty Advisor to the Chancellor on Campus Welfare
Email: inkelas@berkeley.edu
Office: 1219 Dwinelle Hall | 200 California Hall #11
Research and teaching: Phonology, morphology, and their interface; child phonology

Peter Jenks

Peter Jenks Professor of Linguistics; Department Chair
Email: jenks@berkeley.edu
Office: 1217 Dwinelle Hall
Research and teaching: Syntax, semantics, phonology, fieldwork; Moro and other Niger-Congo languages; Thai, Mandarin, and other East and Southeast Asian languages

Darya (Даша) Kavitskaya

Darya Kavitskaya Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Linguistics
Email: dkavitskaya@berkeley.edu
Office: 6219 Dwinelle
Research and teaching: Slavic, Turkic, Uralic; phonology and phonetics, historical phonology

Lev Michael

Lev Michael Professor of Linguistics
Email: levmichael@berkeley.edu
Office: 1212 Dwinelle Hall
Research and teaching: Anthropological linguistics, typology, documentation and description of Amazonian languages, South American historical and contact linguistics, language revitalization

Line Mikkelsen

Line Mikkelsen

Professor of Linguistics
Email: mikkelsen@berkeley.edu
Office: 1210 Dwinelle Hall
Research and teaching: Syntax, semantics, morphology, Danish and other Germanic languages, Karuk and other languages of California, philosophy of language

Terry Regier

Terry Regier Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science
Email: firstname dot lastname at berkeley dot edu
Office: 1221 Dwinelle Hall
Research and teaching: Language and cognition; semantic variation and universals; computational linguistics

Hannah Sande

Associate Professor of Linguistics
Email:
 hsande@berkeley.edu
Office: 1214 Dwinelle
Research and teaching: Phonology, morphology, and their interface; prosody; language documentation and description; African languages, especially languages of Côte d'Ivoire

Alan Yu

Chancellor's Professor of Linguistics
Email: aclyu@berkeley.edu
Office: 1225 Dwinelle Hall
Research and teaching: Behavioral, psychological, and neural mechanisms underlying human speech perception and production, language variation and change (esp. in Hong Kong and Mainland China), linguistics of autism and other speech and language disorders