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Brigittine French joined the 91���� faculty in 2003 and is Professor of Anthropology. French is a linguistic and political anthropologist whose diverse body of teaching and research focuses on theoretical and ethnographic approaches to narrative, testimonial discourse, violence, gender, rights...

Eleanor Glewwe earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics from UCLA in 2019. Her research interests lie in phonology and phonetics. Currently, she is pursuing several projects on Georgian. She has also used artificial grammar learning experiments to test whether people are biased toward learning phonetically...

Cynthia Hansen began teaching in the Linguistics Concentration at 91���� in January 2012. Her research focuses on the documentation and linguistic description of Iquito, a highly endangered language of the Peruvian Amazon. She teaches the core courses within the Linguistics Concentration...

Kelly Herold has spent several summers, a spring and two winters in Russia. Her research on memoir and travel writing has taken her to Dublin, London and Prague. She has written commentary to Sumarokov's Ody torzhestvennye (included in a facsimile edition, a project directed by Ronald Vroon and E.P...

As Director of the Center for Prairie Studies, Cori works closely with the Center for Prairie Studies Advisory Board to create opportunities for the campus and wider community to learn about, engage with, and celebrate Central Iowa's tallgrass prairie region. She teaches a course on place-based...

The allure of studying a “dead” language was too strong for Angelo Mercado to resist as a college freshman. It didn’t take long for Angelo to fall in love with the sound and rhythm of Classical Latin. His excitement grew to include the comparison of texts from other “dead” languages, embracing Greek...

By training, I’m a developmental psychologist and linguist. The classes I teach and the research I conduct focus on the cognitive mechanisms – like attention, executive function, and memory – that allow young children to make sense of language and how children use their own questions as a tool for...