Faculty with A Primary emphasis in Native American Linguistics

• Ofelia Zepeda, (Tohono O’odham) Regents’ Professor. Linguistics of Tohono O’odham, language teaching, Language Revitalization & Maintenance. Director of AILDI.
• Tyler Peterson. Assistant Professor. Tsimshianic linguistics & language maintenance, revitalization and documentation. AILDI Instructor
• Amy Fountain, Lecturer. Phonology, Phonetics, general American Indian languages .
• Stacey Oberly (Southern Ute) Assistant Professor. Phonetics, phonology of Southern Ute, Language teaching, Documentation & Revitalization.
• Heidi Harley, Associate Professor. Hiaki morphosyntax, Hiaki language teaching & maintenance, lexical semantics.
• Natasha Warner, Associate Professor. Language Maintenance and revitalization of Mutsun Language, Experimental Phonetics.
• Andrew Carnie, Associate Professor & Dean of the Graduate College. Nez Perce syntax, Syntactic Theories, Celtic linguistics.

Other Faculty with Native American Linguistic Interests

• Sheilah Nicholas (Hopi). Hopi language shift and education. Dept. of Language, Reading, & Culture.
• Leisy Wyman. Yup’ik language shift among youth. Dept. of Language, Reading, & Culture.
• Mary Carol Combs. Language education and policy. Dept. of Language, Reading, & Culture.
• Perry Gilmore, Language Identity, language and culture. Dept. of Language, Reading, & Culture.
• Jane Hill. Regents’ Professor. Uto-Aztecan languages, historical linguistics.
• K. Tsianina Lomawaima (Creek) Chair of American Indian Studies Program. History of Indian Education, Federal Boarding School Experiences, ethnohistory.