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Dept of Linguistics

linguistics, phonological theory, typology, African languages, the Niger-Congo family, especially the comparative and historical study of the Bantu language family

Xueyin (Snow) Zhang sitting in a chair working on laptop

Xueyin (Snow) Zhang

Dept of Philosophy

Bayesian epistemology, decision theory, philosophy of probability, Chinese philosophy

literacy, second language acquisition, writing, psycholinguistics, reading, French language, French linguistics, technology and education

Mairi McLaughlin

Mairi McLaughlin

Dept of Italian Studies

French linguistics, translation studies, language of the media, language contact, syntax, romance linguistics, History of the Romance Languages, Italian language, history of French, History of the Press, Speech Reporting, Metalinguistic texts

Dept of Anthropology

media, music, Indigenous Australia, ethnographic film, cinema, urban studies, fire ecology

Winnie Wong

Dept of Rhetoric

art and law, modern and contemporary art, Chinese art, Qing Empire, Hong Kong

John MacFarlane

John MacFarlane

Dept of Philosophy

ancient philosophy, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology

Max Willsey

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

programming optimization, programming languages

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Old and Middle Iranian languages, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Arabic dialectology, sociolinguistics, philology, Libyan Studies, archives

Dept of Linguistics

linguistics, psycholinguistics, linguistic structure, language production, aphasia and related language disorders, bilingualism, stuttering

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Eric Naiman

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

sexuality, history, comparative literature, Slavic language, ideological poetics, history of medicine, Soviet culture, the gothic novel

Sarah Chasins in Stanley Hall

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

programming systems, human-computer interaction, programming languages, programming languages and compilers, program synthesis, data science

William F. Hanks

William F. Hanks

Dept of Anthropology

social and cultural anthropology, linguistics, shamanism, language, Yucatan Mexico, Maya culture

Jonas Wellendorf

Jonas Wellendorf

Dept of Scandinavian

Old Norse language and literature, Scandinavian mythology, Scandinavian cultural history (Viking Age and Middle ages)

Patricia Baquedano-López

Patricia Baquedano-López

School of Education

immigration and diaspora from Latin America to the U.S., Latinos and education, race and language, Indigenous language revitalization

Chenxi Tang standing in outdoor setting

Chenxi Tang

German literature and thought, European literature and thought, Chinese intellectual history, Comparative study of Europe and China, Law and Literature

Lok Siu

Dept of Ethnic Studies

diaspora, transnational migration, un/belonging and citizenship, racial/ethnic/gender formation, food, ethnography, Chinese diaspora, hemispheric Asian American studies

Dept of Linguistics

language and thought, computational linguistics, semantic universals, lexical semantics

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

unsupervised language acquisition, efficient algorithms for NLP, linguistically rich models of language, integrating symbolic and statistical methods for NLP, organization of the web, machine translation, information extraction

Seth Yalcin

Dept of Philosophy

philosophy of language, cognitive science, semantics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical logic

Prof. Hannah Sande interacting with children during a research trip in Gnagbodougnoa, Côte d'Ivoire

Dept of Linguistics

phonology, phonological processes, morphology, Kru languages, West Africa, tone and prosody

17th and 18th century French literature and culture, history and theory of the novel, quantitative literary history and digital humanities, history of aesthetics, cinema (French New Wave)

Aarti Sethi

Dept of Anthropology

agrarian anthropology, ruralism, feminist anthropology, political economy, Comparative Religion, South Asia, debt and capitalism, climate change, cinema and media culture, caste, socio-economic inequality, the politics of knowledge, multi-species ethnography

Kris D. Gutiérrez

Kris D. Gutiérrez

School of Education

designed learning environments, Cultural dimensions of learning, language and literacy learning for dual language learners, biliteracy, new media literacies, the social organization of learning, ethnographic methodology and qualitative approaches to inquiry, design experiment/social design experiments, education of Latino, immigrant, migrant youth, urban education, teacher learning, educational and language policy

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

program analysis, program synthesis, database application performance, big systems, big data, database management, database management systems, database design and construction, programming languages and compilers, programming languages