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Dept of Linguistics

linguistics, language change, Indo-European languages, historical linguistics, Indigenous California languages, Indigenous language revitalization

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Dept of Linguistics

computational linguistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, Generative AI, Deep Learning, speech processing, NLP, phonology, articulatory and acoustic phonetics, historical linguistics, Indo-European linguistics

Lev Michael

Dept of Linguistics

linguistic typology, Amazonian languages, anthropological linguistics, language contact and areal typology, language documentation and description

Christine Hastorf

Christine Hastorf

Dept of Anthropology

anthropology, archaeology, paleoethnobotany/archaeobotany, ancient plant use, foodways, Andean South America, indigenous ontologies, agriculture

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Grace Erny

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

archaeology, archaeology and history of Greece and the Aegean, inequality in the ancient world, archaeology survey and the rural Mediterranean, analysis of archaeological ceramics, archaeological ethics, public archaeology

Dept of Linguistics

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

Benjamin Porter

Benjamin Porter

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

archaeology, Near Eastern archaeology, Middle East, Arid Environments, Heritage, tourism, museum studies

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Japanese linguistics, syntax/semantics, pragmatics, phonetics, cognitive linguistics

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Peter Jenks

Dept of Linguistics

syntax, semantics, morphology, linguistic theory, Thai, Southeast Asian languages, African languages

Dept of Linguistics

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

Dept of Linguistics

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

Dept of Anthropology

historical archaeology, African American archaeology, historic preservation, heritage conservation, community based participatory research

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Justin Davidson

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Spanish linguistics, romance linguistics, contact linguistics, bilingualism, Catalan, sociophonetics, language variation and change, quantitative methods

Isaac L. Bleaman

Isaac L. Bleaman

Dept of Linguistics

sociolinguistics, language contact, language change, language maintenance, computational linguistics, syntax, phonetics, Yiddish, Jewish languages

Nikolaos Papazarkadas

Nikolaos Papazarkadas

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Greek epigraphy, Greek history, classics, archaeology, history of modern scholarship

William F. Hanks

William F. Hanks

Dept of Anthropology

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

Kim Shelton

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

ceramics, classical civilization and archaeology, Aegean prehistory, religion/mythology

Junko Habu

Dept of Anthropology

Japan, anthropology, archaeology, climate change, sustainability, East Asia, Jomon hunter-gatherers

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Dept of Scandinavian

Greenlandic Inuit, archaeology, oral history, Arctic, indigenous knowledge, colonialism and globalization

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

indigenous archaeology, indigenous environmental studies, settler colonialism, community-based participatory research, California

Archaeologists confer at the Yarumela site in Honduras

Rosemary A. Joyce

Dept of Anthropology

Latin America, anthropology, cultural heritage, gender, archaeology, sexuality, museums, ethics, Central America, feminism

Lisa Maher

Dept of Anthropology

archaeology, hunter-gatherers, prehistory, geoarchaeology, landscape use, stone tools technology, emergence of social complexity, ancient technology

Dept of Anthropology

decolonization, indigenization, indigenous methodologies, tribal sovereignty-driven research, Indigenous Archaeologies, Southwest U.S.

Dept of Film and Media

feminist theory, cultural theory, archaeology of media technology, film and modernity, film theory, psychoanalytic theory