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Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics
Mentors List

List of faculty CEDL mentors available for contact

Last revised January 14, 2006

Areas of mentorship as listed in the CEDL Mentorship Application include:
- Basic friendship and support in the field
- Writing letters of recommendation
- Networking and connecting with members of the linguistics community
- Advice on written work (e.g., revisions/suggestions)
- Advice on job searches and/or grant writing
- Advice on publishing and/or presenting at conferences
- Advice on teaching
- Advice on how to deal with discrimination
- Advice on how to juggle the unique demands on minority scholars
- Balancing family, community, and professional commitments
- Advice on how to handle academic politics

"Available to mentor in all areas" means that the mentor indicated that they are willing to mentor in all of the above areas (to the extent that they feel capable of doing so). "Available to mentor in selected areas" means that the mentor indicated that they are willing to mentor in some of the above areas. Potential mentees will be matched as best as possible with potential mentors based on mutual interests.

Adger, Carolyn Temple
Director, Language in Society Division, Center for Applied Linguistics
Email: carolyncal.org
URL: http://www.cal.org/
Specialization(s): Educational Linguistics
Available to mentor in selected areas*

Baptista, Marlyse
Associate Professor
Email: baptistauga.edu
URL: http://www.linguistics.uga.edu/facdir/baptista.html
Specialization(s): Theoretical Syntax, Syntax/Morphology Interface, Language Contact, Fieldwork, Minority Languages & Education, Pidgin & Creole Linguistics
Available to mentor in all areas

Cahill, Mike
International Linguistics Coordinator for SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics)
Email: mike_cahillsil.org
URL: http://www.sil.org/sil/roster/cahill_michael.htm
Specialization(s): Phonology, Phonetics, & Historical linguistics, especially African Languages (specifically tone & labialvelar obstruents). Practical fieldwork (including application to literacy & Bible translation).
Available to mentor in selected areas

Childs, G. Tucker
Full Professor
Email: childstpdx.edu
Specialization(s): African Languages, Sociolinguistics, Phonetics & Phonology, Typology
Available to mentor in selected areas

Denham, Kristin
Associate Professor
Email: kristin.denhamwwu.edu
URL: http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~denham/
Specialization(s): Syntax, WH-movement, Syntax of Salish & Athabaskan Languages, Integrating Linguistics into K-12 education
Available to mentor in selected areas

Flores, Nydia
Assistant Professor
Email: nfloresrci.rutgers.edu
URL: http://gse.rutgers.edu/faculty/genFacultyList.asp
Specialization(s): Sociolinguistics, Bilingualism, Spanish/English Contact
Available to mentor in selected areas

Green, Lisa
Associate Professor
Email: lgreenmail.utexas.edu
URL: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~greenlj/
Specialization(s): African American English Syntax/Semantics, Syntax of Dialects of English
Available to mentor in all areas

Hazen, Kirk
Associate Professor
Email: Kirk.Hazenmail.wvu.edu
URL: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~khazen/
Specialization(s): Variationist Sociolinguistics; Language & Education
Available to mentor in all areas

Holm, John
Full Professor
Email: jholmmail.telepac.pt
URL: http://www.uc.pt/mes.ling.des
Specialization(s): Creole Languages, Contact Linguistics, African American English, Sociolinguistics
Available to mentor in selected areas

Jacobs, Neil G.
Associate Professor
Email: jacobs.8osu.edu
URL: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/jacobs8/
Specialization(s): Yiddish & Germanic linguistics; Ethnolects (primarily post-Yiddish & Jewish Ethnolects; Recent research on Sephardic-Jewish Papiamentu); Historical Linguistics; Phonology; Linguistic Geography
Available to mentor in selected areas

Karimi, Simin
Associate Professor
Email: Karimiu.arizona.edu
URL: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~karimi/
Specialization(s): Syntax, Syntax-morphology, Syntax-semantics (Word order & scrambling, verb final languages, complex predicates, Iranian linguistics)
Available to mentor in selected areas

Kiesling, Scott
Associate Professor
Email: kieslingpitt.edu
URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~kiesling/skpage.html
Specialization(s): Sociolinguistics, Language & Gender
Available to mentor in all areas

LaFond, Larry
Assistant Professor
Email: llafondsiue.edu
URL: http://www.siue.edu/~llafond
Specialization(s): Second Language Acquisition & Syntax
Available to mentor in all areas

McConnell-Ginet, Sally
Full Professor
Email: smg9cornell.edu
URL: http://ling.cornell.edu/McConnell-Ginet/mcconnell-ginet.html
Specialization(s): Semantics, Pragmatics, & Language/Gender/Sexuality
Available to mentor in all areas

Otheguy, Ricardo
Full Professor
Email: rotheguygc.cuny.edu
URL: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Linguistics/rislus/People/RicardoOtheguy.html
Specialization(s): Spanish linguistics, Language Contact, Functional Approaches to Grammatical Analysis
Available to mentor in selected areas

Ranson, Diana L.
Associate Professor
Email: dransonuga.edu
URL: http://www.rom.uga.edu/directory/faculty/ranson.htm
Specialization(s): Comparative & Historical Romance Linguistics; Language Variation & Change (especially in Spanish & French)
Available to mentor in all areas

Rickford, John R.
Full Professor
Email: rickfordstanford.edu
URL: http://www.stanford.edu/~rickford/
Specialization(s): Sociolinguistics, Variation Theory, Pidgins & Creoles, African American Vernacular English, Style, Language & Ethnicity, Social Class
Available to mentor in selected areas

Ronkin, Maggie
PhD Candidate (ABD) (in both linguistics & anthropology); expecting to graduate Summer 2006.
Email: ronkinmgeorgetown.edu
URL: http://www.nerdvana.com/~maggie
Specialization(s): Discourse Analytic Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Language & Identity, Language & Inequality; Sociology of Language & Sociolinguistics of Society (esp. in relation to colonial & postcolonial studies); Urdu, and Language Ideologies
Available to mentor in all areas

Simon, Beth Lee
Associate Professor
Email: simonipfw.edu
URL: http://users.ipfw.edu/Simon/
Specialization(s): Sociolinguistics; Language Maintenance & Shift; Language Variation & Change; Language & gender;
Available to mentor in selected areas

Singler, John
Full Professor
Email: john.singlernyu.edu
URL: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/people/faculty/singler/
Specialization(s): Sociolinguistics, Pidgins & Creoles, Linguistic Variation, African American English, African Languages
Available to mentor in selected areas

Traugott, Elizabeth Closs
Professor Emeritus
Email: traugottstanford.edu
URL: http://www.stanford.edu/~traugott/
Specialization(s): Historical Linguistics, Grammaticalization, Semantic Change, Discourse Analysis, Linguistics & Literature
Available to mentor in selected areas

van Gelderen, Elly
Full Professor
Email: ellyvangelderenasu.edu
URL: http://www.public.asu.edu/~gelderen/elly.htm
Specialization(s): Syntax, Historical & Comparative
Available to mentor in selected areas

Wassink, Alicia Beckford
Associate Professor
Email: Wassinku.washington.edu
URL: http://faculty.washington.edu/~wassink
Specialization(s): Sociolinguistics, Pidgin & Creole Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology
Available to mentor in selected areas

Weldon, Tracey L.
Assistant Professor
Email: weldontgwm.sc.edu
URL: http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/faculty/faculty_pages/weldon/weldon.html
Specialization(s): Sociolinguistics; Language Variation; Gullah; African American English
Available to mentor in all areas

Winford, Donald
Full Professor
Email: dwinfordling.ohio-state.edu
URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~dwinford
Specialization(s): Sociolinguistics, Contact Linguistics. Language & Culture, Caribbean Creoles, African-American English, Language ideology, Language & Education
Available to mentor in all areas

Yaeger-Dror, Malcah
Research Scientist
Email: malcahemail.arizona.edu
URL: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~malcah/
Specialization(s): Sociolinguistics, Lab Phonology, Pragmatics
Available to mentor in all areas

Zentella, Ana Celia
Full Professor
Email: azentellaucsd.edu
URL: http://create.ucsd.edu/affiliates/people/zentella.htm
Specialization(s): Bilingualism, Languages & Dialects in Contact, Language Socialization, Varieties of US Latino Spanish [especially pronoun variation] & English, Language Policy, Linguistic Profiling
Available to mentor in all areas

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Last revised January 14, 2006

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