Faculty

Lori Altmann, Ph.D.
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Lori Altmann (Ph.D. University of Southern California) is a linguist in the department of  Communication Sciences and Disorders. Her research interest lies in the field of Neurogenics.

Theresa A. Antes, Ph.D.
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Theresa Antes (Ph.D. Cornell) is a linguist in the Department of Language, Literatures, and Cultures. Her research and teaching interests focus on Second Language Acquisition, Pedagogy, and French Linguistics.

Helene Blondeau, Ph.D.
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Helene Blondeau (Ph.D. Montreal) is a linguist in the Department of Language, Literatures, and Cultures. As a sociolinguist, her research interests encompass language variation and change as well as language contact and bilingualism. Her current research focuses on linguistic change in varieties of Canadian French.

Diana Boxer, Ph.D.
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Diana Boxer (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is a linguist in the department of Linguistics. Her research interests encompass discourse analysis and pragmatics, second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics.

H. Wind Cowles, Ph.D.
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Wind Cowles (Ph.D. University of California, San Diego) is a linguist with an additional affiliation at the McKnight Brain Institute. She is also the coordinator for LIN 3010: Intro to Linguistics. Her research focuses on the interaction of information structure and language comprehension and production. She is currently doing research on the effects of topic and focus on a speaker's choice of syntactic structure, and on how discourse structure effects the processing of pronouns and other co-referential nouns.

James Essegbey, Ph.D.
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James Essegbey (Ph.D. Leiden University) is a linguist in the Department of Language, Literatures, and Cultures. He is interested in descriptive, documentary and theoretical linguistics, especially in the domain of syntax, semantics and pragmatics; contact linguistics; language and culture; Kwa languages of West Africa, especially Gbe (i.e. Ewe, Gen, Aja and Fon), Akan, and Ghana-Togo Mountain languages, and creole studies. Lately, he has been working on the influence of the Gbe languages on Suriname creoles, and, more recently, the description and documentation of Nyangbo, one of the Ghana-Togo Mountain languages.

Paula Golombek, Ph.D.
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Paula Golombek (Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University) is a linguist in
the Department of Linguistics.  Her research interests include teacher
professional development in L2 teacher education, the knowledge-base of L2
teacher education, and second language pedagogy.

Youssef Haddad, Ph.D.
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Youssef A. Haddad (Ph.D. University of Florida) is a linguist in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. His research focuses on syntactic theory, especially as pertaining to control, raising, and resumption. 

M.J. Hardman, Ph.D.
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M.J. Hardman (Ph.D. Stanford University) is an anthropological linguist. Her current interests include language and cultures, field methods, Jaqi languages, languages and gender, and language and violence.

James Harnsberger, Ph.D.
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James Harnsberger (Ph.D. University of Michigan) is with a research focus on acoustic phonetics, speech perception, second language acquisition, forensic phonetics, and the acoustics and perception of indexical properties of speech.

Galia Hatav, Ph.D.
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Galia Hatav (Ph.D. Tel Aviv University) is a specialist in semantics. Her current interests focus on conditional semantics and biblical Hebrew.

Benjamin Hebblethwaite, Ph.D.
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Ben Hebblethwaite (Ph.D. Indiana University) is a linguist in the department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. His main interests in linguistics are syntax, code-switching, bilingualism, Creole studies, morphology, sociolinguistics and historical linguistics. He is also interested in publishing important translations in bilingual or trilingual English/Haitian Creole/French editions.

Brent Henderson, Ph.D.
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Brent Henderson (Ph.D. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) is a linguist whose primary research interests include syntactic theory, case and agreement, and Bantu languages. His other interests include Semitic languages and the acquisition of syntax.

Edith Kaan, Ph.D.
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Edith Kaan (Ph.D. University of Groningen, The Netherlands) is the undergraduate director for Linguistics and has an additional affiliation at the McKnight Brain Institute. Her specialization is language processing and the brain. She focuses on sentence-level processing and conducts experiments using various behavioral and brain imaging techniques (event-related brain potentials, fMRI).

Gillian Lord-Ward, Ph.D.
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Gillian Lord (Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University) is the 'Acting Chair' of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies. Her teaching and research interests include Spanish linguistics, second language acquisition, acquisition of phonetics and phonology, and pedagogy.

Jack B. Martin, Ph.D.
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Jack Martin (Ph.D. UCLA) is a linguist in the Anthropology Department, whose work focuses on language preservation, documentation, and fieldwork.  He specializes in native languages of the American South, especially Creek (or Muskogee), Miccosukee (Mikasuki), Koasati (Coushatta), and Choctaw.

Masangu Matondo, Ph.D.
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Masangu Mantondo (Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)) is a linguist in the Department of Language, Literatures, and Cultures. He is interested in both descriptive as well as theoretical linguistics. In particular, his research is anchored in Phonetics (e.g. the phonetic realization of tone in Kisukuma and other Bantu languages), Phonology and Morphology of African languages and particularly Bantu languages. He is also interested in historical linguistics, comparative Bantu studies and the interaction of language and society in Africa.

Fiona McLaughlin, Ph.D.
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Fiona McLaughlin (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin) is a linguist who is also a member of the Department of Language, Literatures, and Cultures. Her teaching and research involve African languages, phonology, morphology, and sociolinguistics.

Andrea Pham, Ph.D.
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Andrea Pham (Ph.D. University of Toronto) is a linguist in the Department of Language, Literatures, and Cultures. Her research interests include phonology and second language acquistion.

David Pharies, Ph.D.
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David Pharies (Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley) is the Associate Dean for Humanities for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His interests include Spanish and Romance linguistics and historical linguistics.

Eric Potsdam, Ph.D.
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Eric Potsdam (Ph.D. University of California at Santa Cruz) is a linguist who specializes in syntax. His current research project is Variation in Control Structures. Other teaching and research interests include syntactic theory and the Austronesian language Malagasy.

Jason Rothman, Ph.D.
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Jason Rothman (Ph.D. UCLA) is an acquisitional linguist whose research focuses on the acquisition of complex syntax and semantics in adult language acquisition (L2, L3, Ln)  and child first language and bilingual acquisition.  Prof. Rothman is editor of the journal Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, published quarterly by John Benjamins Publishing.

Ratree Wayland, Ph.D.
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Ratree Wayland (Ph.D. Cornell University) is the graduate coordinator in Linguistics. Her teaching and research focus on acoustic phonetics, second language acquisition, comparative historical linguistics, south east Asian languages (Laotian, Thai, Khmer), and acquisition of tones by non-native speakers of tonal languages.

Ann Wehmeyer, Ph.D.
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Ann Wehmeyer (Ph.D. University of Michigan) is a member of the Department of Languages, Literature, and Culture. Her current interests involve Japanese language and culture, the history of linguistics, language in Japanese society, and the origins of linguistics in Japan.

Caroline Wiltshire, Ph.D.
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Caroline Wiltshire (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is the Chair of the Linguistics Department. Her current teaching and research involve phonological theory, word structure, phrasal syllabification, expressive language, and Dravidian and Romance language phonology.

Faculty Emeritus

Jean Casagrande, Ph.D. (Professor Emeritus)
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Jean Casagrande (Ph.D. Indiana University) is a linguist who taught in both Linguistics (Syntactic Argumentation, History of Linguistics, Traditional Grammar) and in the Department of Romance Languages (French Phonetics, French Syntactic Structure).  He served as Director of Linguistics (1976-79 and 84-95) and as Director of the English Language Institute (1984-2003). His current interest is on the French written and transcribed codes and their interface.

Chauncey C. Chu, Ph.D. (Professor Emeritus)
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Chauncey C. Chu (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1970) taught syntactic theory, functional syntax and discourse grammar in Linguistics and Chinese culture, calligraphy, structure of Chinese in addition of the Chinese language at all levels in the former Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures (AALL). He served as director of the former Linguistics Program (1979-82) and as associate chair of AALL (1988-2002). His research interest focuses on functionalism and discourse.

Haig Der-Houssikian, Ph.D. (Professor Emeritus)
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Haig Der-Houssikian (Ph.D. University of Texas in Austin) now Professor Emeritus. My interests continue to be in morphology, Swahili and Bantu linguistics, and the sociology of language in Africa. I also have interests in Western Armenian, my native language. I have been Director of the Center for African Studies (1973-79), Director of the Linguistics Program on two occasions (1971-72, 1984-85) and Chair of the Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures (1982-1991).  AALL is now part of a larger unit called Department of Language, Literature and Culture.

D. Gary Miller, Ph.D. (Professor Emeritus)
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Gary Miller (Ph.D. Harvard University) now emeritus. His current research interests are morphological theory; the syntactic history of Latin, Romance, and English; nonfinite structures; and etymology.

Roger Thompson, Ph.D. (Professor Emeritus )
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Roger Thompson (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin) is a linguist who is also a member of the English Department. He is director of the graduate certificate in TESL. His current interests are language contact, second language acquisition, computer assisted instruction, TESL, and interaction and English structure.

Anne M. Wyatt-Brown, Ph.D. (Professor Emerita)
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Anne Wyatt-Brown (Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University) now emeritus.  She was Undergraduate Director, Linguistics, 2000-2003, Graduate Coordinator, Women Studies Program, 1996-98, the Director of Scholarly Writing, 1983-2003 and of LIN 2000, 1992-2003. From 2005-2010 she has been co-editor of the Journal of Aging, Humanities, and the Arts.

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