Department of Anthropology

Basso, Ellen B., Professor of Anthropology, Ph.D., 1969, University of Chicago. Research interests: Amazonian languages and cultures; women in sports; anthropology and history; narrative ethnography; biography; and psychological issues in anthropology.

Hill, Jane H., Regents Professor of Anthropology, Ph.D., 1966, University of California at Los Angeles. Research interests: Uto-Aztecan languages (especially Tohono O'odham, Cupen~o, and Nahuatl) including history, sociolinguistics/endangerment, grammar and discourse; language and racism; language and identity, especially self-construction in narrative.

Mendóza-Denton,Norma, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Ph.D., 1997, Stanford University. Research interests: Phonetics, gender and language, and dialectal and stylistic variation in Spanish.

Roth-Gordon, Jennifer, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Ph.D., 2002, Stanford University. Research interests: linguistic anthropology, language, culture, and power, language ideologies, race and language, youth language, discourse analysis, racial identity construction, critical race studies, whiteness, Brazil.

CESL

Panferov, Suzanne, Director of CESL, Ph.D, 2002 Ohio State University. Research Interests: teacher training, literacy, CALL, and program administration.

Department of Classics

White, Cynthia, Associate Professor in Greek and Latin for the Classics Department. Ph.D., 1991, Catholic University of America. Research interests: Augustan poetry, late antique Latin literature, Greek patristics, Medieval Latin.

Department of East Asian Studies

Jones, Kimberly, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Ph.D., 1990, University of Michigan. Research interests: Japanese sociolinguistics, language and gender.

Liu, Feng-hsi, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Ph.D., 1990, University of California at Los Angeles. Research interests: Syntax and semantics of Chinese.

Vance, Timothy, Department Head/Professor, Ph.D. 1979, University of Chicago. Research interests: Phonetics / phonology, Japanese linguistic, Japanese second language pedagogy.

Department of English

Adamson, H. Douglas, Professor of English, Ph.D., 1980 Georgetown University. Research interests: Language use and variation theory in second language acquisition, content-based instruction.

Gonzalez, Roseann D., Professor of English, Ph.D., 1977 University of Arizona. Research interests: Language policy, interpreter testing and training, language acquisition.

Liu, Jun, Graduate Advisor SLAT Program (Spring 2004), Associate Professor of English, Ph.D., 1996 Ohio State University. Research interests: Classroom second language acquisition, academic writing in L2, research methodology, language teaching methods, syllabus design and curriculum development, language teacher education, and interculture communication. TESOL
President 2006-2007.

Penfield, Susan, Senior Lecturer and Teaching Advisor for the English department, Ph.D. University of Arizona 1980. Research interests: endangered languages: language revitalization, technology and language learning and documentation, applied linguistics and language and culture in second language acquisition.

Saville-Troike, Muriel, Professor of English, Regents' Professor, Ph.D.,1968 University of Texas. Research interests: First and second language acquisition, interaction and attrition, contrastive rhetoric.

Troike, Rudolph C., Professor of English, Ph.D., 1959 University of Texas. Research interests: Formal syntactic universals, language typology, Chinese syntax, American Indian languages, and varieties of American English.

Department of French & Italian

Ariew, Robert, Professor of French & Italian, Ph.D., 1974 University of Illinois. Research interests: Pedagogy, technology as applied to second and foreign language teaching, materials design and development.

Ayoun, Dalila, Associate Professor of French & Italian, Ph.D., 1992 University of Florida. Research interests: Second language acquisition, French linguistics, CALL, and web-based elicitation tasks.

Dupuy, Béatrice C., Associate Professor of French and Italian, Ph.D., 1994 University of Southern California. Research interests: L2 Acquisition, L2 Reading and Writing, Culture-Teaching-and-Learning, L2 Teaching and New Computer-Based Technologies.

Waugh, Linda, Chair SLAT Program, Professor of French & Italian, English, Anthropology and Linguistics, Ph.D. 1970, Indiana University. Research interests: French linguistics; discourse and textual analysis; pragmatics; grammatical and lexical semantics; history of linguistics; semiotics; use of grammar and lexicon in spoken language and written texts.

Department of German Studies

Ecke, Peter, Associate Professor of German Studies, .Ph.D., 1996, The University of Arizona. Research interests: Vocabulary learning and processing, errors and word finding problems in second language learners.

Schulz, Renate A., Professor of German Studies, Ph.D., 1974 Ohio State University. Research interests: Second/foreign language acquisition, pedagogy, testing and evaluation, teacher development.

Wildner-Bassett, Mary, Associate Professor of German Studies, Ph.D., 1983 Ruhr University. Research interests: Foreign language pedagogy, language acquisition, interlanguage pragmatics, nonlinear dynamic systems in L2 learning and teaching.

Department of Language, Reading and Culture

Anders, Patricia Lee, Professor of Language, Reading, and Culture, Ph.D. 1976, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Research interests: Specializes in adolescent literacy, teacher change, gender and literacy and content area literacy instruction.

Betts, David, Assistant Professor of Literacy and Technology, Ph.D.1994, University of Arizona. Research interests: literacy, technology, and the arts.

Combs, Mary Carol, Associate Lecturer, Department of Language, Reading and culture, Ph.D., 1995, University of Arizona. Research interests: Language planning and policy, bilingual education, English as a second language pedagogies, indigenous language revitalization, socio-cultural perspective on language development.

Gilmore, Perry, Associate Professor of Language, Reading, and Culture, .Ph.D.,1982 University of Pennsylvania. Research interests: Language and literacy acquisition and assessment in social context, language and identity, language and culture regenesis, ethnography of communication and sociolinguistics.

Moll, Luis C., Professor of Language, Reading and Culture, Ph.D., 1978, University of California at Los Angeles. Research interests: Child development and education, bilingual education, biliteracy, cultural-historical psychology.

Reyes, Iliana, Assistant Professor of Language, Reading and Culture, Ph.D., 2001, University of California at Berkley. Research interests: Child language and literacy development in bilingual and monolingual populations, bilingual education, and sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics of second language acquisition.

Rubinstein-Ávila, Eliane Betina, Assistant Professor, Ed.D. 2001 Harvard Graduate School of Education. Research interests: Issues of literacy practices, development and education of immigrant/ELLS and underrepresented urban students.

Ruiz, Richard, Department Head of Language, Reading and Culture, Ph.D., 1980 Stanford University. Research interests: Language planning and policy development, second-language pedagogy.

Department of Linguistics

Archangeli, Diana Bennett, Professor of Linguistics, Ph.D.1984, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: Sound patterns of languages, in particular the interface between articulation and the formal patterns of sounds in languages (the mouth-mind interface!).

Barss, Andrew, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Ph.D., 1986, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: Syntactic theory, syntactic-semantics mapping, sentence-level psycholinguistics.

Bever, Thomas G., Research Professor of Linguistics, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Ph.D., 1967, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: Cerebral asymmetrics for language and cognition, sentence comprehension, individual and group differences in first and second language, reading in L1 and L2.

Carnie, Andrew, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Ph.D. 1995 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: Syntax, Semantics, Predication, phrase structure, acquisition of syntax, VSO languages, and language endangerment.

Dooley, Sheila, Program Director for the Master of Science Degree in Human Language Technology, Ph.D. 1991. Research interests: syntax, typology, and computational linguistics, with special interest in verb-initial languages, modality, and the acquisition of syntax.

Sandiway Fong, Associate Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science, Ph.D.1991 MIT. Research interests: Natural language processing and all things computational relating to principle-based theories of grammar, morpho-syntax, corpora, and logic.

Hammond, Michael, Department Head, Professor of Linguistics, Ph.D. 1984, University of California at Los Angeles. Research interests: Phonology, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and poetry.

Harley, Heidi, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Assistant Research Social Scientist, Ph.D., 1995 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: Syntax, Lexical Semantics, Morphology, and Psycholinguistics/Acquisition

Karimi, Simin, Associate Professor of Linguistics and Near Eastern Studies, Ph.D., 1989 University of Washington. Research interests: Theoretical syntax, typology of word order, syntax-semantics, syntax-morphology interface, Iranian linguistics.

McKee, Cecile, Professor of Linguistics, Ph.D., 1988 University of Connecticut. Research interests: Developmental psycholinguistics, children’s acquisition of syntax, lexicon, and morphology, English, Italian, ASL.

Ohala, Diane K., Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Ph.D. 1996, University of Arizona. Research interests: language acquisition, phonetics, and phonology.

Ussishkin, Adam, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. 2000, University of California at Santa Cruz. Research interests: Phonology, morphology, constraint-based grammars, the nature of lexical representations, prosodic phonology and morphology, templatic effects, nonconcatenative phonology and morphology, metrical phonology, psycholinguistics, articulatory and gestural phonology and phonetics, loanword phonology, opacity, Semitic languages and grammars (particularly Modern Hebrew).

Warner, Natasha, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Ph.D., 1998 University of California at Berkley. Research interests: Phonetics, experimental phonology, psycholinguistics, language maintenance, language revitalization.

Willie, Mary Ann, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Ph.D., 1991 University of Arizona. Research interests: Navajo morphology and syntax; Native American Linguistics as it relates to their endangered status, documentation, and the relearning of these languages.

Zepeda, Ofelia, Regents Professor of Linguistics, Ph.D., 1984 University of Arizona. Research interests: Tohono O'odham language, American Indian language pedagogy, issues concerning endangered languages and efforts in American Indian language revitalization

Department of Near Eastern Studies

Farwaneh, Samira, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Ph.D., 1995 University of Utah. Research interests: Phonetics / Phonology, Pedagogy and Language and Gender.

Schulte-Nafeh, Martha, Assistant Professor of the Practice and Middle East Language Coordinator, Department of Near Eastern Studies/Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Ph.D., 2004 University of Arizona. Research interests: Proficiency testing, teacher training and development, CALL, Arabic language and linguistics.

Talatoff, Kamran, Professor of Persian Language and Literature and Iranian culture, Ph.D. University of Michigan 1996. Research interests: issues of gender, ideology, culture, and language pedagogy.

Department of Psychology

Forster, Kenneth I., Professor of Psychology, Ph.D., 1964 University of Illinois. Research interests: Cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics.

Garrett, Merrill, Professor of Psychology, Ph.D., 1965 University of Illinois. Research interests: Psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology.

Gerken, LouAnn, Professor of Psychology and Linguistics, Ph.D., 1987, Columbia University in the City of New York. Research interests: Child language acquisition.

Gomez, Rebecca L., Assistant Professor of Psychology, Ph.D., 1995 New Mexico State University. Research interests: Child language acquisition.

Nicol, Janet, Associate Professor of Psychology and Linguistics, Assistant Research Social Scientist, Cognitive Science, Ph.D., 1988 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: Psycholinguistics, language processing in normal mono- and bilingual adults and children, brain and language.

Yaeger-Dror, Malcah, Research Scientist – Cognitive Science, Ph.D. 1979, University of Pennsylvania. Research interests: Variation theory, mutual linguistic influences of cultures in contact, conversation analysis, comparison of conversational techniques across cultures, prosodic analysis in conversation and cross-cultural perspective, phonological theory, and acoustic phonetic analysis.

Department of Russian & Slavic Languages

Dunkel, Alexander, Associate Professor of Russian and Slavic Languages, Ph.D., 1972 New York University. Research interests: 20th century Russian literature, 20th century Russian culture, problems of Russian idiomatic translation, LCTL methodology, courseware, and administration.

Fielder, Grace, Professor of Russian and Slavic Languages, Ph.D., 1983 University of California at Los Angeles. Research interests: Slavic/Balkan linguistics, syntax and semantics, discourse analysis.

Gutsche, George, Department Head / Professor of Russian and Slavic Languages, Ph.D., 1972 University of Wisconsin. Research interests: Head Russian literature, literary criticism, Russian culture, Russian language.

Leafgren, John R., Associate Professor of Russian and Slavic Languages, Ph.D., 1992 University of Virginia. Research interests: Russian and Bulgarian linguistics, syntax, and discourse syntax.

Department of Spanish & Portuguese

Carvalho, Ana Maria, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Ph.D. 1998 University of California at Berkeley. Research interests: Sociolinguistics, languages in contact, variation, Spanish linguistics, Portuguese linguistics.

Colina, Sonia. Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Ph.D. 1995 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Research areas: Spanish phonology, phonological theory, translation studies & applied linguistics, translator education.

Durán, Javier. Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Ph.D. 1995 University of Arizona. Research areas: U.S.-Mexico Border Studies, Critical Theory and Latin American Cultural Studies.

Montalbetti, Mario M., Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese, Ph.D., 1984 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: Generative grammar.

Olarrea, Antxon, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Ph.D., University of Washington, 1997. Research interests: Formal linguistics, Spanish morphology and syntax.

Department of Special Education, Rehabilitation & School Psychology

Antia, Shirin D., Associate Professor of Special Education, Rehabilitation and School Psychology, Ph.D., 1979 University of Pittsburgh Main Campus. Research interests: Language acquisition, development of communication skills in handicapped children.

Fletcher, Todd V., Associate Professor of Special Education, Rehabilitation and School Psychology, Ph.D. 1986, Oregon State University. Research interests: Cross-cultural comparisons of student cognitive and academic performances in Latin America, the development and evolution of student cognitive and academic performance in Latin America, the development and evolution of special education in Mexico, language development and acquisition of Hispanic students in bilingual programs, assessing language proficiency, and the accommodation of bilingual students with disabilities in bilingual and general education classrooms.

Supalla, Samuel, Associate Professor of Special Education, Rehabilitation and School Psychology, Ph.D. 1990, University of Illinois. Research interests: First language acquisition, second language acquisition, modality constraints, bilingual/multicultural education, language policy and planning, linguistics of signed language, and American Sign Language Literature.

Department of Teaching and Teacher Education

Evans, Carol, Associate Professor of Teaching and Teacher Education, Ph.D., 1989, University of Texas. Research interests: Bilingualism, language and literacy acquisition, teacher education.