Faculty and Staff

Titled image of the lecture Emily Bender is presenting. A dreary image of a person at the end of a road is above the title.
Emily Bender to Present Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of "AI": The View from the Humanities in February
December 11, 2025
Sharon Hargus smiling in front of a lake. To her right is the except of her background and her new title as an at large member.
Sharon Hargus Elected to the LSA Executive Committee
November 26, 2025
Professor Emily Bender shakes hands with the Dalai Lama
Emily Bender participates in Mind & Life Dialogue at the Dalai Lama Library and Archive in Dharamsala India. 
November 3, 2025
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Qi Cheng receives prestigious grants
September 24, 2025
Emily M. Bender at a podium
Emily Bender plenary speaker at the UNESCO Digital Learning Week
September 24, 2025
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Sharon Hargus retires 
September 24, 2025
Faculty Promotions
September 16, 2025
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Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna to present The AI Con 
August 5, 2025
Emily Bender during the Great Chatbot Debate
Emily M. Bender and the Great Chatbot Debate
April 3, 2025
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Alicia Beckford Wassink Elected Vice President/President-Elect of Linguistic Society of America
December 5, 2024
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Emily Bender Receives Thomas L. and Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Faculty Fellowship
December 5, 2024
Christina Zhao
Christina Zhao Finalist for 2024 NOMIS & Science Young Explorer Award
November 25, 2024
UW Linguistics Makes a Splash at Association for Computational Linguistics 2024
October 16, 2024
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Thank you to Joyce Parvi!
October 16, 2024
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Welcome to Amandalynne Paullada!
October 16, 2024
Fieldwork on Panãra in Brazil
Summer News and Updates
October 16, 2024
Naja Ferjan Ramírez
Departmental Achievements
May 24, 2024
Betsy Evans
A Conversation with Betsy Evans
February 29, 2024
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Professor Alicia Wassink Featured by CoMotion
February 29, 2024
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines
Emily Bender and Dr. Joy Buolamwini at The Big Read
February 5, 2024
Yuan Chai
Welcome to Yuan Chai
February 4, 2024
Official Flyer with descriptions and timings of event.
Emily Bender Speaks with Ted Chiang: Wishful Thinking and AI
October 23, 2023
Headshots of Professor Bender and Professor Choi.
Professors Bender and Choi make Time's list of the world's most influential people in artificial intelligence
September 14, 2023
Prof. Richard Wright
Chair's Welcome
September 8, 2023
Betsy Evans
Betsy Evans named the new Executive Director of the American Dialect Society
September 5, 2023
RRF Poster
Congratulations to Professors Qi Cheng, Sharon Hargus, Naja Ferjan Ramírez and Richard Wright.
September 5, 2023
Jessa Jeter and Emily Ahn
Summer 2023 Highlights
September 5, 2023
Gayle Stygall
Gail Stygall endowment
April 28, 2023
Andrew Hedding
Andrew Hedding recent hire
April 28, 2023
Barbara Citko
Barbara Citko awarded Nostrand Professorship
April 28, 2023
Emily M. Bender
Emily M. Bender in the news
April 28, 2023
Myriam Lapierre
Faculty profile: Myriam Lapierre
April 28, 2023
Lhasa
Lhasa Tibetan returns to the UW
April 28, 2023
Emily M. Bender
Emily M. Bender AAAS Fellow
February 1, 2023
Naja Ferjan Ramírez
Ferjan Ramírez Distinguished Professorship in Language Acquisition and Multilingualism 
February 1, 2023
Trent Ukasick
Trent Ukasick receives Arienne Dwyer Language Documentation Award 
February 1, 2023
Linguistics ASL faculty
UW Linguistics at DeafNation Expo
February 1, 2023
Kellie Martin, Austin Vaday, Melissa “Echo” Greenlee
ASL Club and Linguistics
February 1, 2023
Will Lewis
Welcome back, Will Lewis!
February 1, 2023
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Inspiring the next generation
February 1, 2023
Guggenheim Hall
Linguistics: Good to go for another 10 years
February 1, 2023
Harold Schiffman
Harold Schiffman (in memoriam)
February 1, 2023
Emily M. Bender
Emily M. Bender: AI in reality
September 15, 2022
Richard Wright at ASA annual meeting
Letter from the Chair
September 2, 2022
Andrew Hedding
Welcome Andrew Hedding
September 2, 2022
Alicia Beckford Wassink
Lockwood Scholar Alicia Beckford Wassink
September 2, 2022
In Zhongdian (Shangri-La City; in Tibetan, Gyelthang) northwest Yunnan province, China (2012)
Spring 2022 PhD Nathan Loggins
September 2, 2022
UW ASL faculty
ASL program: current activities and future plans
May 6, 2022
Dan Mathis
Faculty profile: Dan Mathis
May 6, 2022
Kristi Winter
Kristi Winter reviews the film "Coda"
May 6, 2022