Faculty and Staff

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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)
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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)
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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)
Chengde summer palace writings
Arienne Dwyer endowment
(May 6, 2022)
Speech bubbles of various languages
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
(May 6, 2022)
Emily M. Bender
Emily M. Bender in the news
(May 6, 2022)
Richard Wright at ASA annual meeting
UW linguists at Acoustical Society of America 
(January 10, 2022)
Fritz Newmeyer
Fritz Newmeyer elected Secretary-Treasurer of Linguistic Society of America—again!
(January 10, 2022)
Prof. Betsy Evans
Folk Linguistics Online Mapping
(September 3, 2021)
Linguistics Chair Richard Wright
Message from Chair Richard Wright
(September 3, 2021)
Qi Cheng, Assistant Professor
Faculty Profile: Qi Cheng
(September 3, 2021)
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ASL Honor Society
(September 3, 2021)