Recent News
Emily M. Bender is featured in the new documentary Ghost in the Machine (directed by Valerie Veatch), which premiered at Sundance 2026 and was also selected for the 2026 Seattle International Film Festival. As Bender writes in a newsletter post reviewing the film, "Ghost in the Machine is a rich, historically grounded and well-researched exploration of what is going on in…
Ty Gill-Saucier has been selected as a recipient of the Antoinette Wills Endowed Fund for Graduate Students for the 2026–2027 academic year. This award will support his sociophonetic research on Southern U.S. English, with a focus on vowel production and perception among Mississippi Gulf Coast Creole speakers. His project examines how listeners perceive “Southern speech” and how acoustic patterns…
Sunny Ananthanarayan was awarded the Lewis & Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research grant for their work with the Panãra Indigenous community in central Brazil continues with contributions to documenting and archiving cultural and linguistic practices for the community. Their research has so far involved work on Panãra verbal morphology, as well as examining the intersections…
Andrew Hedding has been awarded a Simpson Center for the Humanities Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship to support the development of a public online dictionary for San Martín Peras Mixtec. The project builds on an existing research database of lexical entries with audio recordings, tonal annotation, and English and Spanish translations. This summer, the fellowship will fund expansion of the…
Dr. Alicia Wassink (Department of Linguistics) and Dr. Jamaal Muwwakkil (Department of Anthropology) recently hosted a workshop for the Linguistic Society of America’s Language, Conflict, and Peacebuilding Special Interest Group on June 4-6th. The workshop, sponsored by a micro-grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), brought together an international group of participants,…
Katherine Guild, a Winter 2025 graduate from Linguistics, has been selected as a 2026-27 Fulbright English Teaching Assistant to South Korea. To read more, check out this Office of Merit Scholarships, Fellowships and Awards (OMSFA) article.
Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held on Friday May 15th. From 12:20-1:20pm MGH 258San Martín Peras Mixtec Dictionary Projecthttps://event.fourwaves.com/uw-2026urs/abstracts/7dde8e75-acb5-45ab-99cc-d4b6549331f2Palatalization Contrasts in Two Serbo-Croatian Dialects https://event.fourwaves.com/uw-2026urs/abstracts/1deff866-313a-4b07-b90a-5d88e924b850MGH 389Language Policy and…
Ryan has been selected for a short-term American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) Fellowship for Americans in the Nordic Countries. He will be a visiting researcher in Finland at the University of Oulu's unit for Saami studies, the Giellagas Institute. During his time in Finland, he plans to collaborate with the Saami Culture Archive hosted by the Institute, attend North Saami language classes,…
Richard Wright, professor and longtime chair of the UW Department of Linguistics, has been appointed to serve as the interim Divisional Dean of Humanities for the UW College of Arts & Sciences. His term of service will begin July 1, 2026, following the completion of Brian Reed’s term as the current Divisional Dean. With College of Arts & Sciences Dean Dianne Harris retiring in June 2026,…
Language Pedagogy Circle: Written Corrective Feedback: Practical Strategies for Language Teachers Thursday, 02/12/2026, 2:30 – 3:30pm, Denny Hall 156 Please join us for our winter quarter discussion, led by Sarah-Kate Moore (Frenital) and Ana Dobao (Spanport), as we focus on practical strategies for language teachers to use in the classroom…