Professor Emanuel (Manny) Drechsel has become Professor Emeritus, in recognition of his long-standing meritorious contributions to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Professor Drechsel is known for publications that include Mobilian Jargon: Linguistic and Sociohistorical Aspects of a Native American…
Carl Polley (PhD, 2012) has been awarded a 2025 Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching for his outstanding instruction in linguistics and Chinese language at Kapiʻolani Community College. Congratulations, Professor Polley!
Congratulations to PhD candidate Emma Breslow on receiving grants from the Elizabeth Spann Student Enrichment Fund and from the Laurence C. and M. Terry Thompson Fund for Research and Publication in Linguistics and Oral Literature to help support her dissertation…
Professor Andrew Cheng and Lisa Jeon (University of North Texas) have published an entry in the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes, "American English Phonology", describing sound features that distinguish varieties of English spoken in the U.S. and Canada from…
The Department of Linguistics contributed two presentations to the 2025 UH Mānoa Research Day at the State Capitol. PhD candidate Josiah Murphy discussed her research project ‘Canoeing in Hawai'i and Woleai: A Malayo-Polynesian language documentation project’ and Professors Bradley McDonnell…
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…