Congratulations to PhD student Orlyn Joyce Esquivel, who is a two-time recipient of an award from the Dr. Teresita V. Ramos Endowment for Philippine Languages, Literature, Culture, and Filipino American Studies. Orlyn has used the awards to conduct fieldwork in Bataan,…
We are pleased to announce that PhD Candidate Henry Osborne has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from NSF (advisor: Gary Holton), for the project: A Spatial Grammar of Kubulau Fijian. Here he is pictured recording two residents…
The 9th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC) was a great success! From March 6-9, UHM Linguistics welcomed over 400 attendees to discuss the conference theme: Navigating new realities in diaspora communities. The conference consisted of over 170…
We are happy to announce that Akari Ohba (Ph.D., 2024) has formally accepted a position as lecturer (assistant professor, permanent position) in the English linguistics section of the Department of Humanities Studies at Yamaguchi University in Japan. She is pictured…
We are delighted to share that four UHM Linguistics Alumni have recently accepted positions as faculty at various institutions! Nozomi Tanaka (PhD 2016) has joined the Department of Linguistics at the University of Iowa as a tenured Associate Professor. Kaiying…
Carolyn Siegman and Shelece Easterday both presented research at the 15th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALTXV) in Singapore from December 4-6, 2024. Siegman gave a paper presentation titled "Fricatives or approximants: A typology of stop-to-continuant processes"…
Current UHM Linguistics undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and alumni met up at the 52nd New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) to present their research in Miami Beach, November 7-9, 2024. The presentations were as follows: Emma Breslow: Shmooze and…
UHM Linguistics is thrilled to announce the launch of a new project to document and support Micronesian languages through training of UH undergraduate and graduate students and capacity building within members of the Micronesian diaspora community in Hawai’i. Supported by…
UHM linguistics alumni, Thomas Kettig and Jonny Kim, presented at LabPhon19 in Seoul, South Korea from June 26 - 29, 2024. Here they are pictured with current student Carolyn Siegman and alumn Sejung Yang. Thomas and Jonny’s presentations were: Thomas…
Join us in congratulating UHM linguistics PhD candidate Anu Reddy for being awarded the Jagdish P. Sharma Memorial Scholarship for the 2024-2025 academic year. Congratulations, Anu!