Department Directory

	Saman Meihami [more information]
	Kristina Mihajlovic Email: kmihajlovic@email.arizona.edu I am a 5th year PhD student primarily interested in phonology and phonetics, but also in language change and variation, especially as it relates to South Slavic languages and heritage speakers. I am also a public K-12 educator with 3.5 years of substitute teaching experience and 4 years of... [more information]
	Ki Woong Moon Email: kiwoongmoon@arizona.edu [more information]
	Jackson Mostoller Email: jmostoller@email.arizona.edu Graduate student in the online Human Language Technology program. [more information]
	Max Mulé NSF Graduate Research Fellow Email: mule@email.arizona.edu PhD student interested in community based language revitalization, language documentation, linguistics education for language workers, the intersection of phonetics and language revitalization, and Arbëresh. [more information]
	Jordan Myers [more information]
	Santiago Nelson [more information]
	Christina Laree Newhall NSF Graduate Research Fellow Email: newhallc@email.arizona.edu Linguistics Ph.D. student, Revitalization track I am a member of the Native Village of Unga, AK, a learner of my heritage language, Unangam Tunuu, and a linguistic anthropologist. [more information]
	Jian Gang Ngui Email: jgngui@email.arizona.edu I am a sixth-year PhD candidate (A.B.D.) in the Linguistics department. My primary interests are in syntactic and semantic theory and the syntax-semantics interface. Topics I've worked on include ellipsis in sluicing and fragments in Colloquial Singapore English, optional/partial WH-movement in... [more information]
	Janet Nicol Professor, Linguistics, Psychology and Cognitive Science Email: nicol@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-8184 Office: Communication 314A My research is about language; specifically, how people learn it, produce it, and understand it. [more information]
	Konrad Niethercutt [more information]
	Remo Nitschke RA Linguistics PhD student and Human Language Technology student. I am working on ways to make neural machine translation technologies accessible to low-resource language communities. On the theoretical side, I currently work on the Syntax of German adjectives and on topics pertaining the evolution of... [more information]
	Kelynn Nowakowski Email: knowakowski@arizona.edu Nowakowski is a graduate student in the Human Language Technology M.S. program. She previously received a B.A. in English Linguistics and minored in German and Japanese studies. She is also TESOL certified. [more information]
	Gabriela O'Connor [more information]
	Diane Ohala Associate Professor of Practice, Director of Undergraduate Studies Email: ohalad@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-5984 Office: Communication 301 Department of Linguistics Undergraduate Advisor and Honors Advisor [more information]
	Ashley Parker Email: ashleyparker@email.arizona.edu Graduated Summer 2022, Masters in Human Language Technology [more information]
	A'an Parra [more information]
	George-Michael Pescaru Email: gmpescaru@email.arizona.edu About me: I was born in Bucharest, Romania, but I was raised in Boise, Idaho. I am the PAC-12's number one fan, with undergraduate degrees from Washington and an MA from Utah. Research interests: Currently, I am a phonologist. As far as that goes, I am especially interested in formal models of... [more information]
	Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini Professor Email: massimo@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-6913 Office: Communication 305 Piattelli-Palmarini and Medeiros on the Physics of Language Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini and David Medeiros will be presenting papers at the First International Symposium on the Physics of... [more information]
	John Powell Graduate Associate, University Fellow Email: jwpowell@email.arizona.edu John W. W. Powell is a PhD student of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. His research interest are in historical linguistics, morphosyntax, language documentation and revitalization, and linguistic geography. He collaborates with the Piipaash (Maricopa) community. [more information]
	Samantha Prins PhD Student, Graduate Teaching & Research Associate Email: samanthaprins@email.arizona.edu Office: Harvill 226 D, Zoom My name is Samantha Prins—please feel welcome to call me Sam (she/they). I am a third-year PhD student focusing on language revitalization, morphology and syntax. In particular, my research interests include Indigenous languages of North America, issues in language documentation and vitality,... [more information]
	Andrew Quadro [more information]
	Andrea Ramon Lecturer Email: andrearamon@email.arizona.edu [more information]
	Keegan Reeve [more information]
	Leah Rice Email: lcrice@email.arizona.edu Fourth Year PhD Student Major: Adult Psycholinguistics Minor: Speech Language and Hearing Sciences My interests include: sentence processing, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, lexical access, and aphasia research. Current projects include neuroimaging studies of morphological processing in... [more information]
	Corey Roberts Mekuremečen kihoe hu:k (greetings everyone)! I am a thrid-year PhD student in Language Revitalization and a graduate of the Master of Arts Program in Native American Languages and Linguistics. I support my community, the Yesáh (Southeastern Siouan peoples) in its efforts to breathe more life into... [more information]
	Damian Romero Graduate Teaching Associate (COH) Email: damianiji@email.arizona.edu Damian Romero (pronouns: he, him, they). Graduate Assistant in DevOps, data curation, and outreach for the ReDATA team at the University of Arizona Libraries, Office of Digital Innovation & Stewardship. If you would like to learn more about ReDATA and how to publish your alternative research... [more information]
	Burak Senel Email: senel@email.arizona.edu I am a Fulbright scholar from Turkey, doing my Master's in Human Language Technology. I strive to help bring NLP-enhanced language education technologies into life. My interests lie at the intersection of NLP and SLA particularly in ESL/EFL contexts. I am particularly interested in Intelligent... [more information]
	Cody Sinks [more information]
	Zion Smith NAMA Student Email: zionrsmith@arizona.edu TEL: +1 405-412-6954 Office: Education Bldg. 515 Chickasaw Nation citizen, NAMA student, and graduate assistant at the American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI). Aside from linguistics, I take great interest in history, social justice, and programming, especially video game development. [more information]