People - Faculty

Edith Aldridge

Associate Professor
aldr@uw.edu / (206)685-4845 / GUG 415F
Office Hours: By appointment
Austronesian, Chinese, Historical Linguistics, Syntax
Gasper Begus

Gašper Beguš

Assistant Professor
begus@uw.edu / (206) 221-4031 / GUG 415H
Office Hours: We 12.30-1.30pm & by appt.
Computational Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Machine Learning, Phonetics, Phonology, Speech, Speech Perception
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Emily M. Bender

Professor
GUG 414 C
Office Hours: Autumn 2019: (most) Thursdays 10-11 & (most) Fridays, 10:30-11:30
Computational Linguistics, Endangered Languages, Grammar Engineering, Head Phrase Structure Grammar, Low-density Languages, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Syntax, Typology

Barbara Citko

Professor and Alternate Graduate Program Coordinator
bcitko@uw.edu / GUG 415C
Office Hours: Friday 9:30-10:30am and by appointment
Minimalism, Minimalist Theory, Slavic Linguistics, Syntax, Syntax of Polish, Syntax-Semantics Interface
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Kirby Conrod

Lecturer
kconrod@uw.edu / 415F
Office Hours: Tuesday 10:30-11:30, Friday 1-2pm (or by appt)
Gender, Minimalist Theory, Pronouns, Sociolinguistics, Syntax
Michael Cooper

Michael Cooper

ASL Lecturer
cooperm8@uw.edu / Guggenheim 406
American Sign Language
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Betsy Evans

Associate Professor
evansbe@uw.edu / 415D GUG
Dialectology, Field Research Methods, Ideology, Linguistic Geography, Perceptual Dialectology, Sociolinguistics, Variationist Theory
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Naja Ferjan Ramírez

Assistant Professor
naja@uw.edu / (206) 543-450 / Guggenheim 415B
Office Hours: M, F: 1:30-2:20
American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Brain and language, First Language Acquisition, Perception and Cognition, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Speech Perception, Speech Processing

Lance Forshay

Senior Lecturer and ASL Language Director
lforshay@uw.edu / 206-452-0085 / GUG 406
Office Hours: 12:00-2:00 p.m. M-F
American Sign Language, Cultural Competency, Deaf Studies, Deafhood, Language Attitudes, Privileges and Oppressions in Deaf Community (Audsim).

Sharon Hargus

Professor
sharon@uw.edu / (206) 685-4263 / GUG 415J
Office Hours: By appointment
American Indian/Native American, Endangered Languages, Field Research Methods, Grammar, Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Phonetics, Phonology

Gina-Anne Levow

Associate Professor
levow@uw.edu / (206) 616-5728 / GUG 418B
Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:30-3:20
Chinese, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Dialog, Discourse Analysis, Low-density Languages, Natural Language Processing, Pragmatics, Prosody, Speech Processing

Laura McGarrity

Senior Lecturer
lauramcg@uw.edu / (206) 685-3549 / GUG 418C
Office Hours: Winter 2020: MW 2:00-3:00p (and by appt)
First Language Acquisition, Optimality Theory, Phonology, Prosody, Taboo Language

Toshiyuki Ogihara

Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator
ogihara@uw.edu / GUG 415G
Office Hours: MW 3:30 - 4:30 (Winter 2018)
Formal Semantics, Japanese Linguistics, Philosophy of Language
Jungyeul Park

Jungyeul Park

Acting Assistant Professor
jungyeul@uw.edu / (206) 543-9764 / Guggenheim 418A
Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing
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Shane Steinert-Threlkeld

Assistant Professor
shanest@uw.edu / (206) 616-0997 / Guggenheim 418D
Office Hours: Tuesday, 2:30-4:30PM
Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics

Alicia Beckford Wassink

Associate Professor
wassink@uw.edu / GUG 415
Office Hours: By appointment
Dialect Contact, Ethnography, Field Research Methods, Jamaican Creole, Phonetics, Pidgins and Creoles, Social Networks, Sociolinguistics, Sociophonetics, Variationist Theory

Kristi Winter

Lecturer
kwinter2@uw.edu / GUG 406
Office Hours: By appointment
American Sign Language, First Language Acquisition, Phonology, Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics

Richard Wright

Professor and Department Chair
rawright@uw.edu / (206) 616-2426 / GUG 414B
Office Hours: Summer: by appointment
Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, Austronesian, Discourse Analysis, Endangered Languages, Linguistics, Neurophysiology, Phonetics, Prosody, Speech, Speech Perception, Typology

Fei Xia

Professor
fxia@uw.edu / (206) 543-9764 / Guggenheim 418A
Office Hours: 2:15-3:15pm on Thurs (in-person), 10-11am on Friday (remote via Canvas Conferences, only for ling570 students)
Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing

Emeriti Faculty Members

Heles Contreras

Professor Emeritus
helesc@uw.edu
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Julia Herschensohn

Professor Emerita
herschen@uw.edu / 206-685-2858 / GUG 415-K
Office Hours: By appointment
Bilingualism, First Language Acquisition, French, Historical Linguistics, Linguistics, Minimalist Theory, Second Language Acquisition, Spanish, Syntax

Ellen Kaisse

Professor Emerita
kaisse@uw.edu / (54)3-6004 / Guggenheim 415K
Office Hours: Spring 2018 Fridays 2-3:20 and by appointment
Dialectology, Greek (Modern), Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Optimality Theory, Phonetics, Phonology, Prosody, Spanish, Turkish

Jurgen Klausenburger

Professor Emeritus
jklaus@uw.edu

Frederick Newmeyer

Professor Emeritus
fjn@uw.edu
History of Linguistics, Syntax, Typology

Marina Tarlinskaya

Research Professor Emerita
marinat@uw.edu
Karen Zagona

Karen Zagona

Professor Emerita
zagona@uw.edu / (206) 685-0979 / GUG 415-K
Office Hours: WTR 2020: Tues 1-3pm and by appointment
functional categories and features, Grammar, Romance linguistics, Syntax, Syntax of Spanish, syntax of tense

Adjunct Faculty Members

An Adjunct member in the Department of Linguistics is a person who holds a primary appointment in another department of the University. This appointment is intended to recognize the contributions to and mutual scholarship with the Department of Linguistics by such faculty members (e.g. serving on graduate committees, teaching cross-listed courses, collaborating on research).

Name Title Email / Phone Office
Bilaniuk, Laada M. Adjunct Professor bilaniuk@uw.edu
Bilmes, Jeffrey A. Adjunct Associate Professor bilmes@uw.edu
Dziwirek, Katarzyna A. Adjunct Professor dziwirek@uw.edu
Elkhafaifi, Hussein Adjunct Associate Professor hme3@uw.edu
Etzioni, Oren Adjunct Professor
Fernandez-Dobao, Ana Adjunct Associate Professor anadobao@uw.edu
Handel, Zev Adjunct Professor zhandel@uw.edu
Kirchhoff, Katrin Adjunct Research Associate Professor katrin@ee.washington.edu
Kuhl, Patricia K. Adjunct Professor pkkuhl@uw.edu
Ladner, Richard Adjunct Professor ladner@cs.washington.edu
Max, Ludo Adjunct Associate Professor ludomax@uw.edu
Moore, Collette Adjunct Assistant Professor cvmoore@uw.edu
Ohta, Amy Adjunct Associate Professor aohta@uw.edu
Ostendorf, Mari Adjunct Professor mo@ee.washington.edu
Osterhout, Lee E. Adjunct Professor losterho@uw.edu
Prat, Chantel Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology csprat@uw.edu
Shapiro, Michael C. Adjunct Professor hindimcs@uw.edu
Silberstein, Sandra V. Adjunct Professor tq@uw.edu
Smith, Maya Adjunct Assistant Professor mayaas@uw.edu
Smith, Noah A. Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering nasmith@cs.washington.edu
Stygall, Gail Adjunct Professor stygall@uw.edu
Tennis, Joseph Adjunct Associate Professor jtennis@uw.edu
Yetisgen, Meliha Adjunct Associate Professor melihay@uw.edu
Yue-Hashimoto, Anne O. Adjunct Professor anneyue@uw.edu
Zettlemoyer, Luke Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering lsz@cs.washington.edu CSE 658

Affiliate Faculty Members

Name Title Email / Phone
Aoki, Paul Affiliate Assistant Professor i5no8@u.washington.edu
Hoard, James Affiliate Professor
Khan, Jeremy Affiliate jeremy@trochee.net
Lewis, William Affiliate Assistant Professor wlewis2@uw.edu
Park, Eun Hae Affiliate Assistant Professor ehpark@uw.edu
Rozelle, Lorna Affiliate Assistant Professor rozelle@uw.edu
Sano, Kyoko Affiliate sano@uw.edu
Solti, Imre Affiliate Assistant Professor solti@uw.edu
Tjalve, Michael Affiliate Assistant Professor mtjalve@u.washington.edu
Toutanova, Kristina Affiliate Assistant Professor