Mahesh Srinivasan Dept of Psychology flexible and pragmatic uses of language, representation of abstract concepts, linguistic relativity, social cognitive development in different cultural contexts
Ana Claudia Arias Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) physical electronics, energy, flexible and printed electronics
Amy Rose Deal Dept of Linguistics meaning, grammar, endangered languages, Native American languages, semantics, syntax, word structure, language universals, language variation, Nez Perce language
Andrew Garrett Dept of Linguistics linguistics, language change, Indo-European languages, historical linguistics, Indigenous California languages, Indigenous language revitalization
Isaac L. Bleaman Dept of Linguistics sociolinguistics, language contact, language change, language maintenance, computational linguistics, syntax, phonetics, Yiddish, Jewish languages
Lev Michael Dept of Linguistics linguistic typology, Amazonian languages, anthropological linguistics, historical linguistics, language contact and areal typology, language documentation and description, lexicography, language revitalization
Mairi McLaughlin Dept of French 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
Ali Javey Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) nanotechnology, low power electronics, flexible electronics and sensors, nanofabrication, energy harvesting and conversion, programmable matter
Irina Paperno Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures Russian language and literature, intellectual history
Nicole Holliday Dept of Linguistics sociolinguistics, phonetics, sociophonetics, issues of language and identity, language and media, African American English
Richard Kern Dept of French literacy, second language acquisition, writing, psycholinguistics, reading, French language, French linguistics, technology and education
Larry M. Hyman Dept of Linguistics linguistics, phonological theory, typology, African languages, the Niger-Congo family, especially the comparative and historical study of the Bantu language family
Susanne Gahl Dept of Linguistics linguistics, psycholinguistics, linguistic structure, language production, aphasia and related language disorders, bilingualism, stuttering
Patricia Baquedano-López School of Education migration, diaspora, Indigenous language revitalization, decolonization, race and language, qualitative methods, ethnography
Jonas Wellendorf Dept of Scandinavian Old Norse language and literature, Scandinavian mythology, Scandinavian cultural history (Viking Age and Middle ages)
Marti Hearst Division of Computer Science (EECS) School of Information information visualization, web search, search user interfaces, human-computer interaction, user interfaces, empirical computational linguistics, natural language processing, online education
William F. Hanks Dept of Anthropology social and cultural anthropology, linguistics, shamanism, language, Yucatan Mexico, Maya culture
John MacFarlane Dept of Philosophy ancient philosophy, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology
Terry Regier Dept of Linguistics language and thought, computational linguistics, semantic universals, lexical semantics
Daniel Klein 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
Alexander Huth Dept of Neuroscience Dept of Statistics language neuroscience, fMRI, semantic modeling, decoding/encoding models, computational neuroscience