Giving

Your gift to the Department of Linguistics helps create transformative opportunities for students while advancing research, language preservation, and cultural understanding. Through the UH Foundation, you can securely support student research awards, student activities, ASL interpretation for department events, and other essential departmental needs.

Department of Linguistics Endowment

You may also choose to support one of our more specific endowed funds:

The Drechsel-Hubbard Endowed Fellowship for Indigenous Language-Culture Research supports students working on language and culture, with a preference for students with strong scholarly ties to the Native Hawaiian Indigenous community and pursuing research on Native Hawaiian language and culture research.

Drechsel-Hubbard Endowed Fellowship

The Robert Blust Memorial Endowment honors the legacy of Professor Robert A. Blust by supporting student research in Austronesian linguistics and the history, migration, and homelands of Austronesian peoples.

Robert Blust Memorial Endowment

Other Ways to Support Our Students

Interested in mentoring students, offering internships, sharing your professional expertise, or exploring other partnership opportunities? We'd love to hear from you.

Contact:
Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics
Amy J. Schafer
aschafer@hawaii.edu

Make a Lasting Impact

If you would like to discuss establishing a new fund, creating an endowed gift, making a contribution to support the Department's students, research, and programs, please contact the Department Chair or our UH Foundation representative:

Your generosity advances the Department's mission of research, education, and community engagement; helps our students pursue meaningful research; and preserves linguistic and cultural knowledge for future generations. Thank you for investing in the future of language scholarship.