Faculty
Our faculty members are internationally recognized for their research expertise in many areas, including bilingualism and multilingualism, computational linguistics, endangered languages, first language acquisition, historical linguistics, linguistic typology, morphology, neurolinguistics, phonetics and laboratory phonology, phonology, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, semantics, sentence processing, sociolinguistics, and syntax.
A number of Linguistics faculty also hold joint appointments in other programs, including Anthropology, Computer Science, Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures, Philosophy, Psychology, and Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences.
View All Linguistics Faculty (A-Z)
You can also view faculty by specialization:
- Computational Linguistics
- Endangered Languages
- Language Acquisition/Bilingualism
- Phonology
- Sociolinguistics
- Syntax/Semantics
- Other Linguistics Research Areas
You can also view our emeritus faculty and adjunct faculty.
Computational Linguistics

Martin Chodorow
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Linguistics

Elena Filatova
Assistant Professor
- Linguistics
Assistant Professor
- Computer Science

Kyle Gorman
Assistant Professor
- Linguistics

Rebecca (Rivka) Levitan
Assistant Professor
- Computer Science
Assistant Professor
- Linguistics
Assistant Professor
- Data Science

Sarah Ita Levitan
Assistant Professor
- Computer Science
Assistant Professor
- Linguistics

Michael Mandel
Associate Professor
- Computer Science
Associate Professor
- Data Science
Associate Professor
- Linguistics

Alla Rozovskaya
Assistant Professor
- Computer Science
Assistant Professor
- Data Science
Assistant Professor
- Linguistics

William Sakas
Associate Professor
- Computer Science
Associate Professor
- Linguistics
Endangered Languages

Juliette Blevins
Presidential Professor
- Linguistics

Jason Kandybowicz
Professor
- Linguistics

Daniel Kaufman
Assistant Professor
- Linguistics

Miki Makihara
Professor
- Anthropology
Professor
- Linguistics
Professor
- Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures

Douglas H. Whalen
Distinguished Professor
- Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Distinguished Professor
- Linguistics
Distinguished Professor
- Cognitive Neuroscience
Language Acquisition/Bilingualism

Martin Chodorow
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Linguistics

Alberta Gatti
Associate Professor
- Linguistics
Director
- Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context

Loraine K. Obler
Distinguished Professor
- Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Distinguished Professor
- Linguistics
Distinguished Professor
- Cognitive Neuroscience

Sandeep Prasada
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Linguistics

William Sakas
Associate Professor
- Computer Science
Associate Professor
- Linguistics

Irina Sekerina
Professor
- Linguistics
Professor
- Psychology

Valerie Shafer
Executive Officer and Professor
- Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Professor
- Linguistics
Professor
- Cognitive Neuroscience

Nancy Stern
Assistant Professor
- Linguistics

Virginia Valian
Distinguished Professor
- Psychology
Distinguished Professor
- Linguistics
Distinguished Professor
- Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Phonology

Jason Bishop
Associate Professor
- Linguistics
Associate Professor
- Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

Juliette Blevins
Presidential Professor
- Linguistics

Kyle Gorman
Assistant Professor
- Linguistics

Christina Hagedorn
Associate Professor
- Linguistics

Michael Mandel
Associate Professor
- Computer Science
Associate Professor
- Data Science
Associate Professor
- Linguistics

Douglas H. Whalen
Distinguished Professor
- Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Distinguished Professor
- Linguistics
Distinguished Professor
- Cognitive Neuroscience
Sociolinguistics

Cecelia Cutler
Executive Officer and Professor
- Linguistics
Professor
- Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures

José Del Valle
Professor
- Linguistics
Professor
- Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures
Professor
- Urban Education

Matthew Garley
Assistant Professor
- Linguistics

Kyle Gorman
Assistant Professor
- Linguistics

Bill Haddican
Associate Professor
- Linguistics

Rebecca (Rivka) Levitan
Assistant Professor
- Computer Science
Assistant Professor
- Linguistics
Assistant Professor
- Data Science

Miki Makihara
Professor
- Anthropology
Professor
- Linguistics
Professor
- Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures

Michael Newman
Associate Professor
- Linguistics
Syntax/Semantics

Samer Al Khatib
Associate Professor
- Linguistics

Bill Haddican
Associate Professor
- Linguistics

Jason Kandybowicz
Professor
- Linguistics

Stephen Neale
Distinguished Professor
- Philosophy
Distinguished Professor
- Linguistics

Jonathan Nissenbaum
Assistant Professor
- Linguistics

Christina Tortora
Deputy Executive Officer and Professor, Admission Committee Chair
- Linguistics
Other Linguistics Research Areas

Joseph C Davis
Professor
- Linguistics

Alberta Gatti
Associate Professor
- Linguistics
Director
- Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context

Nancy Stern
Assistant Professor
- Linguistics
Research associate professor
(Not eligible to serve as primary advisor and/or Committee Chair)
Suzanne Van Der Feest email
Research Associate Professor, Linguistics,
Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Adjunct Faculty
(Not eligible to serve as primary advisor and/or Committee Chair)
Susan Fischer (Adjunct) email
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Area of Interest: Sign Language, Typology, Morphosyntax, Psycholinguistics
Andrew Rosenberg (Adjunct) email
Google LLC
Area of Interest: Computational Linguistics
Nava Shaked (Adjunct) email
Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center
Area of Interest: Natural Language Processing, AI, Computational Linguistics, Multimodal Human Machine Interaction Systems, Multimodal Architectures and Applications, Speech Processing Systems