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Current Faculty  Faculty Emeriti   In Memoriam

Current Faculty

Amy Dahlstrom
Associate Professor and Chair. Department of Linguistics.
E-mail: a-dahlstrom (AT) uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-8530
Ms. Dahlstrom works on American Indian languages, especially Algonquian languages. She is also involved in work on Lexical Functional Grammar and discourse structure.
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1986. At Chicago since 1989.

Victor Friedman
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Slavic and Balkan Linguistics. Departments of Linguistics, Slavic Languages & Literature, and Humanities Collegiate Division.
E-mail: v-friedman (AT) uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-0732
Mr. Friedman is a specialist in Balkan linguistics (especially Macedonian, Albanian, and Romani), and Caucasian linguistics.
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1975. At Chicago since 1993.

Susan Gal
Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor. Departments of of Anthropology, Linguistics, and the College.
E-mail: s-gal (AT) uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-2551
Ms. Gal's specializations are in the role of language in culture and society, in gender theory, and in language issues in Eastern Europe.
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1976. At Chicago since October 1994.

Anastasia Giannakidou
Associate Professor. Department of Linguistics, Humanities Collegiate Division
E-mail: giannaki (AT) uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-8525
Ms. Giannakidou works on formal semantics, syntax, and their interface, with emphasis on Greek, Germanic, and Romance.
Ph.D., University of Groningen, 1997. At Chicago since 2001.

John Goldsmith
Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor. Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science, Humanities Collegiate Division.
E-mail: ja-goldsmith (AT) uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-8525
Mr. Goldsmith is concerned with computational linguistics, phonological theory, Bantu languages, ASL, and French.
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976. At Chicago since 1984.

Lenore A. Grenoble
Carl Darling Buck Professor. Department of Linguistics, Slavic Languages & Literature, and Humanities Collegiate Division.
E-mail: grenoble (AT) uchicago.edu
Ms. Grenoble is interested in Slavic, Tungusic and languages of the North, discourse and conversation analysis, deixis, contact linguistics and language endangerment and revitalization.
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1986. At Chicago since 2007.

Chris Kennedy
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies. Department of Linguistics, Humanities Collegiate Division.
E-mail: ck (AT) uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 834-1988
Mr Kennedy's research addresses issues in syntax, semantics,  pragmatics and the philosophy of language, and he is also engaged in  work on language processing and acquisition.
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1997. At Chicago since 2005.


Jason Merchant
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies. Department of Linguistics, Humanities Collegiate Division.
E-mail: merchant (AT) uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-8523
Mr. Merchant's interests are in syntax, semantics, and typology, with particular emphasis on Greek and the Germanic languages.
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1999. At Chicago since January 2001.

Salikoko S. Mufwene
Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor. Department Linguistics, Humanities Collegiate Division
E-mail: s-mufwene (AT) uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-8531
Mr. Mufwene studies creole language varieties and African-American English (especially their genesis and structures), syntax and semantics, lexicography, and Bantu morphosyntax.
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1979. At Chicago since January 1992.

Jason Riggle
Assistant Professor. Department of Linguistics, Humanities Collegiate Division. Director of the Language Modeling Laboratory.
E-mail: jriggle (AT) uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-8528
Mr. Riggle works in phonology, morphology, and computational linguistics.
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 2004. At Chicago since 2004.

Jerrold M. Sadock
Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor. Department Linguistics, Humanities Collegiate Division
E-mail: j-sadock (AT) uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-8526
Mr. Sadock works on autolexical grammar and the interaction of morphology, syntax, and semantics, Germanic languages, and Greenlandic Eskimo.
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana, 1969. At Chicago since 1969.

Michael Silverstein
Samuel N. Harper Professor. Departments of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Psychology (Cognition & Cmctn.), Committees on Ideas & Methods and General Studies in the Humanities.
E-mail: m-silverstein (AT) uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-7713
Mr. Silverstein works on American Indian languages, Australian languages, cultural semiotics, and cognition.
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1972. At Chicago since 1971.

Alan C. L. Yu
Assistant Professor. Department of Linguistics, Humanities Collegiate Division. Director of the Phonology Laboratory.
E-mail: aclyu (AT) uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-8527
Mr. Yu works on phonological theory, morphology, phonetics, and
historical linguistics. He is particularly interested in Cantonese and languages in North America.
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2003. At Chicago since 2003.

Other Academic Staff

Peter Alrenga
Postdoctoral Fellow in Semantics
E-mail: palrenga (AT) uchicago.edu

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, 2007. At Chicago since 2007.

Jan Terje Faarlund
Research Associate (Professor). Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo, Norway.
E-mail: j.t.faarlund (AT) iln.uio.no


Jessie Pinkham
Research Associate (Professor). Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science.
E-mail: jessiep (AT) uchicago.edu
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1981. At Chicago since 2003.


Other Linguists on Campus

Steven Clancy
Senior Lecturer. Slavic
E-mail: sclancy
(AT) uchicago.edu

Helma Dik
Associate Professor. Classics
E-mail: h-dik
(AT) uchicago.edu

Susan Goldin-Meadow
Professor. Psychology
E-mail: s-goldin-meadow
(AT) uchicago.edu

Gina-Anne Levow
Assistant Professor. Computer Science
E-mail: levow
(AT) uchicago.edu

David McAllester
Professor and Chief Academic Officer. Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
E-mail: mcallester
(AT) tti-c.org

Partha Niyogi
Professor. Computer Science
E-mail: niyogi
(AT) cs.uchicago.edu

Howard Nusbaum
Professor. Psychology
E-mail: h-nusbaum
(AT) uchicago.edu

Terry Regier
Associate Professor. Psychology
E-mail: t-regier (AT) uchicago.edu

Robin Ann Shoaps
Assistant Professor. Anthropology
E-mail: shoaps (AT) uchicago.edu

Faculty Emeriti

Howard I. Aronson
Professor Emeritus. Departments of Slavic Languages& Lit. and Linguistics

Kali C. Bahl
Associate Professor Emeritus. Departments of South Asian Languages & Civ. and Linguistics.

Bill J. Darden
Professor Emeritus. Departments of Linguistics and Slavic Languages & Literatures.
Peter Dembowski
Professor Emeritus. Departments of Romance Languages & Lit.and Linguistics, Cmte. Medieval Studies and Humanities Collegiate Division

Paul Friedrich
Professor Emeritus. Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics, Cmte. Social Thought.

Gene Gragg
Professor. Departments of NELC and Linguistics, Oriental Inst., Humanities Collegiate Division.
E-mail: gbgg
(AT) midway.uchicago.edu

Eric P. Hamp
Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus. Departments of Linguistics, Slavic Languages & Lit., Psychology (Cognition & Cmctn.), Cmte. Ancient Mediterranean World

Carolyn G. Killean
Associate Professor Emeritus. Departments of NELC and Linguistics, Humanities Collegiate Division
E-mail: c-killean
(AT) uchicago.edu.

Colin Masica
Professor Emeritus. Department South Asia Languages & Civ. and Linguistics.
E-mail: c-masica
(AT) uchicago.edu

David McNeill
Professor Emeritus. Departments of Psychology (Cognition & Cmctn. Dvlpmtl Psychology) and Linguistics.
E-mail: dmcn
(AT) ccp.uchicago.edu.

Victor H. Yngve
Professor Emeritus. Department Linguistics and Psychology (Cognition & Cmctn).
E-mail: v-yngve
(AT) uchicago.edu

Norman Zide
Professor Emeritus. Departments of South Asian Langs. & Civ. and Linguistics
E-mail: n-zide
(AT) uchicago.edu

In Memoriam

Kostas Kazazis
Karen Landahl
Jim McCawley
Erica Reiner

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