People

Name	Job title	Role	Research interests	Email
Marta Abrusan	Visiting Scholar (Peter Jenks, faculty sponsor)			marta.abrusan@berkeley.edu
Shweta Akolkar	PhD Candidate	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Graduate Student, Syntax and Semantics		akolkar@berkeley.edu
Martine Alexander	Undergraduate Student Advisor/ Student Affairs Officer	Staff		lingmajoradvisor@berkeley.edu
Deborah Anderson	Retired Associate Research Linguist			dwanders@berkeley.edu
Rhosean Asmah	PhD Student	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Graduate Student, Historical and Areal Linguistics, Language and Cognition, Language and Social Context, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology	Phonetics Psycholinguistics Sociolinguistics Historical Linguistics	rhosean@berkeley.edu
Margaret Asperheim	PhD Student	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Graduate Student, Historical and Areal Linguistics, Language Revitalization, Syntax and Semantics	Syntax Semantics Polynesian languages Language Documentation	masperheim28@berkeley.edu
David Bamman	Associate Professor, School of Information	Affiliated Faculty		dbamman@berkeley.edu
Patricia Baquedano-López	Professor of Education	Affiliated Faculty		pbl@berkeley.edu
Gašper Beguš	Associate Professor of Linguistics	Computational and Experimental Methods, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, Faculty		begus@berkeley.edu
Christine Beier	Assistant Adjunct Professor	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Language Revitalization, Faculty		beiercm@berkeley.edu
Anna Björklund	PhD Alumna	Language Revitalization, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology	Wintuan Languages (northern California) Acoustic & Archival phonetics Intonation (sleeping) Language Revitalization	aebjorklund@berkeley.edu
Isaac L. Bleaman	Assistant Professor of Linguistics	Language and Social Context, Faculty		bleaman@berkeley.edu
Chase Boles	PhD Student	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Graduate Student, Language Revitalization, Syntax and Semantics	Morphosyntax Language documentation and revitalization Fieldwork and field methodologies Iroquoian languages	chase_boles@berkeley.edu
Madeline Bossi	Alumna	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Language Revitalization, Syntax and Semantics		madeline_bossi@berkeley.edu
Mel Y. Chen	Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies; Director, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture	Affiliated Faculty		melychen@berkeley.edu
Maksymilian Dąbkowski	PhD Candidate	Computational and Experimental Methods, Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Graduate Student, Language Revitalization, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, Syntax and Semantics	Phonology and its interfaces Morphosyntax Fieldwork Language Documentation Semantics	dabkowski@berkeley.edu
Justin Davidson	Associate Professor of Spanish and Romance Linguistics	Affiliated Faculty		justindavidson@berkeley.edu
Amy Rose Deal	Associate Professor of Linguistics	Syntax and Semantics, Faculty		ardeal@berkeley.edu
Jana Dietzel	Visiting Student Researcher		Cognitive Linguistics Historical Linguistics Variational Linguistics Sociolinguistics Metaphor Research Technical Language	jana.dietzel@berkeley.edu
Wesley dos Santos	Alumnus	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Historical and Areal Linguistics		wesleynascimento@berkeley.edu
Emily Drummond	Alumna	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Historical and Areal Linguistics, Syntax and Semantics		emily_drummond@berkeley.edu
Alexander Elias	PhD Candidate	Graduate Student		alexander_elias@berkeley.edu
Becky Everson	PhD Student	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Graduate Student, Syntax and Semantics	Syntax Language Documentation Tone Bantu Languages Typology My archived collection of Tjhauba speech in ELAR	reverson@berkeley.edu
Susanne Gahl	Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science	Language and Cognition, Faculty		gahl@berkeley.edu
Amber Galvano	PhD Candidate	Graduate Student, Language and Social Context, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology		amber_galvano@berkeley.edu
Andrew Garrett	Professor of Linguistics, Nadine M. Tang and Bruce L. Smith Professor of Cross-Cultural Social Sciences	Faculty		garrett@berkeley.edu
Karee Garvin				karee_garvin@berkeley.edu
Emily Grabowski	PhD Alumna	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology		emily_grabowski@berkeley.edu
William F. Hanks	Distinguished Professor in Linguistic Anthropology	Affiliated Faculty		wfhanks@berkeley.edu
Kristin Hanson	Professor of English	Affiliated Faculty		khanson@berkeley.edu
Yoko Hasegawa	Professor of Japanese	Affiliated Faculty		hasegawa@berkeley.edu
Dmetri Hayes				dmetri@berkeley.edu
Noah Hermalin	PhD Alumnus	Computational and Experimental Methods, Language and Cognition		nmhermalin@berkeley.edu
Sherry Hicks	Lecturer in Linguistics	Faculty		sherry.hicks@berkeley.edu
Leanne Hinton	Professor Emerita of Linguistics	Emeritus Faculty, Language and Social Context, Language Revitalization		lhinton@berkeley.edu
Anushah Hossain	Assistant Research Linguist and Director of the Script Encoding Initiative	Researcher		anushah.h@berkeley.edu
Larry M. Hyman	Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School; Director, France-Berkeley Fund	Emeritus Faculty		hyman@berkeley.edu
Sharon Inkelas	Professor of Linguistics; Associate Vice Provost for the Faculty and Special Faculty Advisor to the Chancellor on Sexual Violence/Sexual Harassment	Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, Faculty		inkelas@berkeley.edu
Claudia Iron Hawk	PhD Student	Graduate Student, Language Revitalization, Syntax and Semantics	D/Lakota Indigenous Language Revitalization Semantics
Richard Ivry	Professor of Psychology	Affiliated Faculty		ivry@berkeley.edu
Rebecca Jarvis	PhD Alumna	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Syntax and Semantics	Syntax & Semantics Language Documentation Atchan Langauge	rjarvis@berkeley.edu
Peter Jenks	Associate Professor of Linguistics	Syntax and Semantics, Faculty		jenks@berkeley.edu
Keith Johnson	Professor of the Graduate School	Emeritus Faculty		keithjohnson@berkeley.edu
Aurora Martinez Kane	PhD Candidate	Graduate Student, Language and Social Context		akane@berkeley.edu
Helena Kansa	Program Manager, Script Encoding Initiative	Staff		hkansa@berkeley.edu
Julianne Kapner	PhD student	Graduate Student, Language and Social Context, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology	Sociolinguistics Phonetics Variation and Change in Minority Languages Social Justice and Community-Engaged Methodologies	julianne_kapner@berkeley.edu
Darya (Даша) Kavitskaya	Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Linguistics	Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, Faculty		dkavitskaya@berkeley.edu
Paul Kay	Professor Emeritus of Linguistics	Emeritus Faculty		paulkay@berkeley.edu
Dacher Keltner	Professor of Psychology	Affiliated Faculty		keltner@berkeley.edu
Richard Kern	Professor of French	Affiliated Faculty		rkern@berkeley.edu
Phuong Khuu		Syntax and Semantics		phuong.khuu@berkeley.edu
Elise Kim	PhD Student	Graduate Student, Historical and Areal Linguistics, Language and Cognition, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology	Computational Linguistics Psycholinguistics Chinese Compounding Idiomaticity Orthography Morphology	eakim0@berkeley.edu
Edwin Ko	Alumnus	Computational and Experimental Methods, Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Historical and Areal Linguistics, Language and Social Context, Language Revitalization, Syntax and Semantics		eddersko@berkeley.edu
George Lakoff	Professor Emeritus of Linguistics	Emeritus Faculty, Language and Cognition		lakoff@berkeley.edu
Schuyler Laparle	Alumna	Language and Cognition, Syntax and Semantics		schuyler_laparle@berkeley.edu
Myriam Lapierre				myriam.lapierre@berkeley.edu
Raksit Tyler Lau-Preechathammarach	Alumnus	Computational and Experimental Methods, Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Historical and Areal Linguistics, Language Revitalization, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology		raksit@berkeley.edu
Alice Lee-Kleinberg	PhD Student	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Graduate Student	Language Documentation Language Revitalization Morphology	aleekle@berkeley.edu
Tyler Lee-Wynant	PhD Student	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Graduate Student, Language Revitalization, Syntax and Semantics	Pomoan Languages Pacific Coast Dene Languages Language Revitalization Syntax Pragmatics	tleewynant@berkeley.edu
Tyler Lemon	PhD Alumnus	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, Syntax and Semantics		tylerlemon@berkeley.edu
Samuel Liff				liff@berkeley.edu
Kang Franco Liu	PhD Candidate	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Graduate Student, Syntax and Semantics	Morphosyntax Language Documentation	kfliu@berkeley.edu
Wendy L. A. López Márquez	PhD Candidate	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Graduate Student, Historical and Areal Linguistics, Syntax and Semantics		wendy_lopez@berkeley.edu
Susan Luong	Department Manager	Staff
Tomasz Luszczek	Visiting Student Researcher			tomek@berkeley.edu
Noah Mahood Macey	PhD Student	Computational and Experimental Methods, Graduate Student, Language and Cognition, Language and Social Context, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology	Language and Cognition Complexity in Linguistic Systems Computational Linguistics Phonetics Phonology	noah.macey@berkeley.edu
John MacFarlane	Professor of Philosophy	Affiliated Faculty		jgm@berkeley.edu
Anna Macknick	PhD Student	Graduate Student, Language and Social Context, Language Revitalization, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology		macknick@berkeley.edu
Erik Hans Maier	Alumnus	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Language Revitalization, Syntax and Semantics		erikhmaier@berkeley.edu
Fabián L. Malaver Chaparro	PhD Student	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Graduate Student, Historical and Areal Linguistics, Language Revitalization, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology	Amazonian languages Phonology Linguistic revitalization and maintenance Tukanoan languages Language documentation	fabian_malaver@berkeley.edu
Martine Alexander		2020_grad
James A. Matisoff	Professor Emeritus of Linguistics	Emeritus Faculty, Historical and Areal Linguistics		matisoff@berkeley.edu
Sam Mchombo	Associate Professor of African Amerian Studies and African Diaspora Studies	Affiliated Faculty		mchombo@berkeley.edu
Mairi McLaughlin	Associate Professor of French	Affiliated Faculty		mclaughlin@berkeley.edu
Yevgeniy Melguy	Alumnus	Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology		ymelguy@berkeley.edu
Tyler Méndez Kline	Postdoctoral Scholar			tmendezkline@berkeley.edu
Lev Michael	Professor of Linguistics	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Language and Social Context, Faculty		levmichael@berkeley.edu
Line Mikkelsen	Professor of Linguistics	Syntax and Semantics, Faculty		mikkelsen@berkeley.edu
Tzintia Montano Ramirez	PhD student	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Graduate Student, Language and Social Context, Language Revitalization		cynthia.montano@berkeley.edu
Johnny Morales Arellano	Graduate Student Services Advisor	Staff		ling-gsao@berkeley.edu
La Tasha Mulder	Administrative Officer	Staff
Julia Eileen Nee	PhD student			jnee@berkeley.edu
Johanna Nichols	Professor Emerita of Slavic Languages and Literatures	Affiliated Faculty		johanna@berkeley.edu
Rickard Nilsson	Visiting Student Researcher			rickardn@berkeley.edu
Zachary O'Hagan	Manager, California Language Archive	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Historical and Areal Linguistics, Syntax and Semantics, Staff		zohagan@berkeley.edu
Iñigo Parra	PhD Student	Computational and Experimental Methods, Graduate Student, Language and Cognition	Computational Linguistics Natural Language Processing Speech Processing Cognitive Science Low-resource languages	iparra@berkeley.edu
Julia Peck	PhD Student	Graduate Student, Language Revitalization	Language Revitalization and Reclamation Language Contact Sociolinguistics Jewish Endangered Languages (especially Judeo-Spanish) Galician Community-Centric Methodologies	julia.peck@berkeley.edu
Alexandra Pfiffner	Lecturer in Linguistics	Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, Faculty		apfiffner@berkeley.edu
Alice Shen (Ph.D.)	Thesis Title: Costs and cues in the auditory comprehension of code-switching. Faculty Advisers: Keith Johnson, Susanne Gahl	2020_grad
Steven Piantadosi	Assistant Professor of Psychology	Affiliated Faculty		stp@berkeley.edu
Beth Piatote	Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English	Affiliated Faculty		piatote@berkeley.edu
Nafisa Rashid	PhD Student	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Graduate Student, Historical and Areal Linguistics, Language and Social Context, Language Revitalization, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, Syntax and Semantics	Heritage and second languages and speakers Sociolinguistics, language contact and change Cross-linguistic Influences due to Bilingualism Language revitalization and documentation for education Natural Language Processing and corpora use in education ...	narashid@berkeley.edu
Terry Regier	Chair of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science	Computational and Experimental Methods, Faculty
Emily Remirez	PhD Alumna	Computational and Experimental Methods, Language and Cognition, Language and Social Context, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology		eremirez@berkeley.edu
Richard A. Rhodes	Professor Emeritus of Linguistics	Emeritus Faculty, Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Historical and Areal Linguistics		rrhodes@berkeley.edu
Abby Roberts	PhD Student	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Graduate Student, Language Revitalization, Syntax and Semantics	Semantics & Pragmatics Language Revitalization Nukuoro	asroberts@berkeley.edu
Allegra Robertson	PhD Alumna	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Language and Social Context, Language Revitalization, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology	Language Documentation and Revitalization The Phonetics-Phonology Interface Amazonian Languages Languages of Italy	allegra_robertson@berkeley.edu
Dakota Robinson	PhD Candidate	Graduate Student, Language and Cognition, Language and Social Context, Language Revitalization		dakota_robinson@berkeley.edu
Ronald Sprouse		2020_grad
Justin Royer	Formal Postdoctoral Scholar	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Syntax and Semantics		justinroyer@berkeley.edu
Katherine Russell	PhD Candidate	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Graduate Student, Historical and Areal Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology		katherine.russell@berkeley.edu
Hannah Sande	Assistant Professor of Linguistics	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, Faculty		hsande@berkeley.edu
Måsi Santos	PhD Student	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Graduate Student, Language Revitalization, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology	Chamoru & Austronesian Linguistics Language Change & Variation Dialect Variation, Language Reclamation Language Revitalization Fieldwork & Documentation Phonetics & Phonology
Kai Schenck	PhD Student	Computational and Experimental Methods, Graduate Student, Language and Cognition, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology	Deep Learning Models in Phonology Learnability of Phonological Processes Syntax-Phonology Interface Tone	kai_schenck@berkeley.edu
Martha Schwarz	PhD Alumna	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology		martha_schwarz@berkeley.edu
Tessa Scott	Alumna	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Syntax and Semantics		tessa_scott@berkeley.edu
Grace Shan	PhD Student	Graduate Student, Language and Cognition, Language and Social Context, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, Syntax and Semantics	Heritage Linguistics Multilingualism Language (Re-)Acquisition Psycholinguistics Computational and Corpus Linguistics Sociolinguistics Applied ...	graces@berkeley.edu
Thomas Shannon	Professor of Germanic Linguistics and Dutch Studies	Affiliated Faculty		tshannon@berkeley.edu
Bin Shao	Visiting Scholar			binshao@berkeley.edu
Godiya Simon		Fieldwork and Language Documentation
Dan Slobin	Professor Emeritus of Psychology	Affiliated Faculty		slobin@berkeley.edu
Ronald Sprouse	Information Systems Analyst	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, Staff		ronald@berkeley.edu
Mahesh Srinivasan	Associate Professor of Psychology	Affiliated Faculty		srinivasan@berkeley.edu
Madeleine Strait	PhD Student	Graduate Student, Historical and Areal Linguistics, Language Revitalization	Historical Linguistics Language and Heritage Lanuage Revitalization Museum Anthropology and Reparation
Eve Sweetser	Professor Emerita of Linguistics	Emeritus Faculty		sweetser@berkeley.edu
Frederic Theunissen	Professor of Psychology	Affiliated Faculty		theunissen@berkeley.edu
Alan Timberlake	Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Director, Institute of East Central Europe, Columbia University	Affiliated Faculty		at2205@columbia.edu
Tzu-Yun Tung	Postdoctoral Scholar	Postdoctoral Scholar	Tzu-Yun is broadly interested in the biological underpinnings of our linguistic knowledge, and how we integrate different levels (e.g., phonetic, morphemic, syntactic, semantic) of this knowledge to ensure successful speech recognition and language comprehension. Pushing forward, she is also...	tytung@berkeley.edu
Hei Vangz	PhD Student	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Graduate Student, Language Revitalization, Syntax and Semantics	Syntax Semantics Pragmatics East Asian Languages (Mandarin, Zhuang)	heyhei@berkeley.edu
Marilyn Vihman	Research Linguist	Researcher		m.vihman@berkeley.edu
William S-Y. Wang	Professor Emeritus of Linguistics; Chair Professor of Language and Cognitive Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Emeritus Faculty		shiyuan.w.wang@polyu.edu.hk
E. Elisabeth Wehling	Visiting Scholar (Eve Sweetser, faculty sponsor)			elisabethwehling@berkeley.edu
Zach Wellstood	PhD Student	Fieldwork and Language Documentation, Graduate Student, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, Syntax and Semantics	Biocultural documentation Morphosyntax Non-pulmonic consonants Tone Khoisan languages	wellstood@berkeley.edu
Eric Wilbanks	Alumnus			wilbanks_eric@berkeley.edu
Seth Yalcin	Professor of Philosophy	Affiliated Faculty		yalcin@berkeley.edu
Mingyu Yuan	PhD Candidate	Graduate Student, Language and Cognition, Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology	Probabilistic Modelling of Language Bilingual Language Processing Tone	mingyu@berkeley.edu

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