Linguistics PhD candidate Colleen Patton has been chosen as a Russel J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Foundation Fellow by the Graduate College at the University of Arizona. The Bilinski Fellowship provides recipients with a $25,000 stipend as well as tuition assistance to support their dissertation research and expedite time to degree.  Colleen will be using the fellowship to fund several fieldwork trips to Scotland in 2018 and 2019 to conduct interviews for her comparative research on Celtic... Read more

Joint PhD Anthropology & Linguistics candidate William Cotter has been chosen as a recipient of the Bilinski Foundation Fellowship by the Graduate College at the University of Arizona. The Bilinski Fellowship provides recipients with a $25,000 stipend tuition assistance to support their dissertation research. William be conducting his PhD fieldwork in Jordan as a Fulbright IIE grant recipient during the 2018-2019 academic year, and will defer the Bilinski Fellowship until he returns from... Read more

Christina Newhall to Intern in Washington D.C

Christina  Newhall is spending their summer at the Smithsonian Institution in America's Capitol.

Lopez Island native Christina Newhall is off to do an Internship at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.

Today we welcomed Dr Wilson Silva (right) to the department, and start to find a home for the collection of books on languages of the Americas that cane with him! Graduate student Joe Dupris (left) helped him unload.

Congratulations to the following award winners this semester.

Shannon Grippando won three. They are: Graduate and Professional Student Council Travel Grant ($750), Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institue Dissertation Grant ($2,000) and Social and Behavioral Sciences Summer Dissertation Fellowship (5,000)

Bill Cotter was recently awarded a Student Fulbright Research Grant from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S Department of State to conduct his... Read more

Isabel Makay with her committee members, Dr. Andrew Carnie, Dr. Simin Karimi, Dr. Robert Henderson and Dr. Heidi Harley. Congratulations on passing your Comprehensive Oral Exam.

Professor McKee has been elected to the Chair Line for AAAS’s Section Z (Linguistics and Language Sciences). The term includes roles as Chair Elect (2018-2019), Chair (2019-2020), and Retiring Chair (2020-2021).

Heidi Harley and Elise Bell went to a pre-K Spanish-immersion class (4-5 year olds) at the International School of Tucson to tell them what a linguistics professor does. The students learned about word order in English and Spanish, and acted the differences out. For example, in the picture below, they are showing the order of the Spanish phrase 'una manzana sucia y fria', and then they ran around to put the picture of the apple at the end for the English equivalent, 'a dirty, cold apple.' We... Read more