Professor of Linguistics, received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the research project “Subjectivity in Language and Thought” with Malte Willer (Assistant Professor in Philosophy).

Lecturer in Linguistics, published Swahili Grammar and Workbook (Routledge, 2014).

Associate Professor in Linguistics, received a grant from the National Science Foundation for “Models of Handshape Articulatory Phonology for Recognition and Analysis of American Sign Language,” a collaborative research project with Diane Brentari (Professor in Linguistics).

the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Slavic Linguistics in Linguistics and Slavic Languages and Literatures, received an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for 2013–14 as well as the American Councils for International Education’s ACTR/ACCELS Title VIII Research Scholar Award for “Contact-induced change and attrition: assessing the impact of Russian.” She published Language Typology and Historical Contingency (John Benjamins Press, 2013), which she edited with Balthasar Bickel, David A. Peterson, and Alan Timberlake.

the Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor in Linguistics, published Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America (University of Chicago, 2014) and Colonisation, globalisation et avenir du français (Odile Jacob, 2014), which he edited with Cécile B. Vigouroux.

Associate Professor in Linguistics, published Origins of Sound Change: Approaches to Phonologization (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Professor in Linguistics and the College, received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for The Body’s Role in Thinking, Performing, and Referencing, a project exploring the relation between action, gesture, and sign language in collaboration with Diane Brentari as well as scholars from the UChicago Division of the Social Sciences and Columbia College Chicago.

Professor in Linguistics and the College, received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for The Body’s Role in Thinking, Performing, and Referencing, a project exploring the relation between action, gesture, and sign language in collaboration with Anastasia Giannakidou as well as scholars from the UChicago Division of the Social Sciences and Columbia College Chicago.

Associate Professor of Linguistics and the College, published Origins of Sound Change: Approaches to Phonologization (Oxford University Press, 2013) and received the Best Paper Award at the LabPhon Conference on Laboratory Phonology.