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.

Professors will find our  Mentoring Guidelines.docx  most helpful when mentoring/advising students.

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Computational Linguistics

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Rebecca (Rivka) Levitan

Assistant Professor

  • Computer Science

Assistant Professor

  • Linguistics

Assistant Professor

  • Data Science
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Sarah Ita Levitan

Assistant Professor

  • Computer Science

Assistant Professor

  • Linguistics
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Alla Rozovskaya

Assistant Professor

  • Computer Science

Assistant Professor

  • Data Science

Assistant Professor

  • Linguistics
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William Sakas

Associate Professor

  • Computer Science

Associate Professor

  • Linguistics

Endangered Languages

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Jason Kandybowicz

Professor

  • Linguistics

Deputy Executive Officer

  • Linguistics

Admissions Committee Chair

  • Linguistics
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Miki Makihara

Professor

  • Anthropology

Professor

  • Linguistics

Professor

  • Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures
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Douglas H. Whalen

Distinguished Professor

  • Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

Distinguished Professor

  • Linguistics

Distinguished Professor

  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Language Acquisition/Bilingualism

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Alberta Gatti

Associate Professor

  • Linguistics

Director

  • Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context
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Loraine K. Obler

Distinguished Professor

  • Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

Distinguished Professor

  • Linguistics

Distinguished Professor

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
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William Sakas

Associate Professor

  • Computer Science

Associate Professor

  • Linguistics
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Valerie Shafer

Executive Officer and Professor

  • Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

Professor

  • Linguistics

Professor

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
Virginia Valian's portrait by Alex Irklievski, 04/25/2023, CUNY Graduate Center

Virginia Valian

Distinguished Professor

  • Psychology

Distinguished Professor

  • Linguistics

Distinguished Professor

  • Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

Phonology

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Jason Bishop

Professor

  • Linguistics
  • Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
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Douglas H. Whalen

Distinguished Professor

  • Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

Distinguished Professor

  • Linguistics

Distinguished Professor

  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Sociolinguistics

Cecelia Cutler

Cecelia Cutler

Executive Officer and Professor

  • Linguistics

Professor

  • Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures
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José Del Valle

Professor

  • Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures
  • Linguistics
  • Urban Education
Rivka Levitan - Assistant Professor -  profile photo

Rebecca (Rivka) Levitan

Assistant Professor

  • Computer Science

Assistant Professor

  • Linguistics

Assistant Professor

  • Data Science
Miki Makihara - Associate Professor -  profile photo

Miki Makihara

Professor

  • Anthropology

Professor

  • Linguistics

Professor

  • Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures

Syntax/Semantics

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Jason Kandybowicz

Professor

  • Linguistics

Deputy Executive Officer

  • Linguistics

Admissions Committee Chair

  • Linguistics
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Stephen Neale

Distinguished Professor

  • Philosophy

Distinguished Professor

  • Linguistics

Other Linguistics Research Areas

Alberta Gatti - Director -  profile photo

Alberta Gatti

Associate Professor

  • Linguistics

Director

  • Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context

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