Professor Shelece Easterday has been awarded the 2023-2024 Mānoa Excellence Presidential Citation for Meritorious Teaching. This award recognizes faculty members who have made significant contributions to teaching and student learning. The award honors an extraordinary level of subject mastery and…
Alumna Michelle Kamigaki-Baron (MA 2020) was featured on Hawaiʻi Public Radio on March 28 2024 for her doctoral research on the benefits of Hawaiʻi Pidgin on learning ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi. Michelle is currently a PhD student at the University of British…
Dr. Akiemi Glenn Dr. Akiemi Glenn earned her PhD in the UHM Department of Linguistics in 2012, and has since become a leader in the nonprofit world in Honolulu. She is the Founder and Executive Director of The Pōpolo Project,…
Stephanie Witkowski Stephanie Witkowski, who graduated from the UH Mānoa Department of Linguistics with an MA in 2013, is currently the Executive Director of 7000 Languages, a nonprofit organization that partners with Indigenous communities worldwide to create language learning materials…
Professor Shin Fukuda's experimental study on deverbal nominals in Japanese recently appeared in the Journal of Japanese Linguistics. Congratulations, Shin!
Doctoral student Carolyn Siegman was recently awarded the Library Treasures Scholarship from the University of Hawaiʻi Library at Mānoa to conduct a typological study on stop-to-fricative and stop-to-approximant lenition processes. This award will culminate in the presentation of the final…
Doctoral student Sydney Ludlow presented her paper, "Voiceless Stops and Their Variants: A lenition continuum in Pastaza Quichua" at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas in New York City on…
Professor Brad McDonnell and PhD student Christina Truong have published a chapter called "28 Applicative constructions in languages of western Indonesia" in the volume Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages, edited by Fernando Zuniga and Denis Creissels. The volume is…
Doctoral student Clé Mayer was recently awarded a full scholarship to the GIS for Sustainability and Resilience in the Pacific Foundations Course given at UN CIFAL (Chaminade) together with the NSF and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research.…
Congratulations to PhD student Louward Zubiri on multiple news items: Louward was part of the Philippine panel at the 7th International Conference on Language and Education in Bangkok, Thailand. This conference was organized by the Asia-Pacific Multilingual Education Working Group,…