February 28, 2025
Dr. Andrew Cheng podcast
Dr. Andrew Cheng was interviewed recently for the Grammar Girl podcast to chat about language, linguistics, and movies. The podcast is also available on YouTube. Congratulations Andrew!
December 11, 2024
Community Linguist Award
Benny Delpada, close collaborator of UHM alumnus Andel Blake (PhD 2024), has just received the Linguistic Society of America Community Linguist Award. Benny is a linguist who has contributed substantially to the documentation and maintenance of his own Abui language…
September 11, 2024
PhD Position in Diaspora Linguistics
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa invites applications from students interested in pursuing a fully-funded Ph.D. program, to begin Fall 2025, working with the NSF-funded project, Documenting endangered languages through training and capacity building among…
July 25, 2024
Dr. Drechsel & Dr. Makuakāne-Drechsel celebrated by UH Foundation
Linguists Dr. Emanuel Drechsel and Dr. Teresa Makuakāne-Drechsel, who have been ardent and enthusiastic supporters of ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, were recently celebrated in an article by the UH Foundation, which describes their generous gifts that honor their family and Hawaiian culture.…
July 24, 2024
Professor Amy Schafer and PhD alum Ivan Bondoc present at AFLA 31
Professor Amy Schafer and PhD alumnus Ivan Bondoc presented their poster "Gradient effects on pivot accessibility in Tagalog quantifier float" at the 31st meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, June 12-14 2024 in Amherst, MA. Congratulations, Amy and Ivan!
July 24, 2024
PhD student Carolyn Siegman interns for LSA’s Linguistics Career Launch
Doctoral student Carolyn Siegman interned for the LSA's Linguistics Career Launch '24 in the summer of 2024. The LCL is a programmatic effort to help students and faculty learn more about careers that welcome linguists beyond roles in academia. Congratulations,…
July 24, 2024
PhD student Emma Breslow and MA alum Caroline Hendy present at 25th Sociolinguistics Symposium
Doctoral student Emma Breslow and MA alumna Caroline Hendy presented their paper, "From shpiel to shemozzle: A study of familiarity with Jewish English lexical items in Australia and the United States," at the 25th Sociolinguistics Symposium in Perth, Australia, on…
July 24, 2024
Bonnie Windham (MA 2014): Language Access Manager for the Oregon Department of Human Services
Department of Linguistics MA graduate Bonnie Windham is currently working as the Language Access Manager at the state of Oregon Department of Human Services, a job in which she ensures that residents of Oregon with communication needs can access the…
June 25, 2024
Mary Walworth (PhD 2015), Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Dr. Mary Walworth earned her PhD in linguistics in our department in 2015, and has since become a leader in linguistic research with speakers of Oceanic languages. She is currently a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for…
June 20, 2024
Anna Belew (PhD 2020), Executive Director of the Endangered Languages Project
Dr. Anna Belew, who graduated with a doctorate from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of Linguistics in 2020, is currently the Executive Director of The Endangered Languages Project (ELP), a nonprofit dedicated to supporting individuals and organizations worldwide…