Sama’a Salama in Dakar

PhD student Sama'a Salama spent four weeks in Dakar, Senegal conducting fieldwork on Sereer. Sama'a with four language consultants in Dakar.
August 21, 2025

Austin Kraft in Indonesia and at ICML

This summer, PhD student Austin Kraft reunited with collaborators in Indonesia. They are pictured here in Pemalang, Central Java, and Ketapang, West Kalimantan. In...
August 21, 2025

Jacobs and Phillips Fund grants awarded for Tlingit research

Zlata Odribets and Laurestine Bradford have been awarded a Jacobs Research Fund grant for Tlingit fieldwork this summer! The grant will fund a...
June 2, 2025

Summer fieldwork travel news

PhD student Laurestine Bradford and Dzéiwsh James Crippen travelled to Teslin, Yukon (Tlingit: Deisleen [tèːslìːn]) for two weeks in July. They worked with fluent...
September 1, 2024

Terrance Gatchalian at Ktunaxa language gathering

Over March 15 – 17th, participants of Tuesday and Thursday evening Ktunaxa language classes gathered for a Language Learners Gathering in ʔa·k̓isqakⱡiʔit (Cranbrook),...
March 21, 2024

Fieldwork in Senegal

Martina Martinović and Brandon Chaperon spent 5 weeks in Senegal conducting fieldwork on Wolof. Here they are in St. Louis with two language...
June 11, 2023

Jessica Coon at UCSD and NYU

Jessica gave colloquium talks at UCSD and NYU last week. The title of the talk was "Agreement restrictions through feature gluttony", the abstract...
February 6, 2023

Martinović Igala grants

Congrats to Martina Martinović, who received an FRQSC grant and a SSHRC Insight Development Grant to continue her work on the Volta-Niger language Igala.
September 2, 2022

David Shanks to Whitehorse

MA student David Shanks traveled to Whitehorse, Yukon to conduct fieldwork with speakers of Dän k'è' (Southern Tutchone, Dene/Athabaskan) in June. Over two weeks, David...
August 22, 2022