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…
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…
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.…
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!
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Dr. Katsura Aoyama (PhD 2000) has been promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of North Texas. Katsura's research interests include phonological acquisition in typically-developing children, second language acquisition, and prosody of language. Our congratulations…