Linguistics Faculty
Guillem Belmar Viernes
Assistant Professor
Linguistics, Language Teaching Studies
Email: gbelmar@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fridays 11:00 to 1:00 @ Straub 279
Research Interests: Language revitalization; language maintenance; language rights; language documentation; minority multilingualism; Minoritized Languages and (Social Media); Minoritized Language Translation; Indigenous diaspora; Mesomerica; Otomanguean Languages (Mixtec); P'urhépecha; Basque; Catalan
Mokaya Bosire
Senior Instructor
African Studies, Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Email: mokaya@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3916
Office: 377 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290
Office Hours: Mon/Wed 3:30p-4:30p or by appt.
Research Interests: Swahili, Sheng, African languages & Urban vernaculars
Don Daniels
Associate Professor
Linguistics
Email: ddaniels@uoregon.edu
Office: 275 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Tuesdays, 11:30-2:30
Research Interests: language change, comparative reconstruction, morphosyntax, Papuan languages, fieldwork
Spike Gildea
Professor
Linguistics
Email: spike@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3906
Office: 381 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290
Office Hours: Fall Term 2025: Tuesdays and Fridays 1:00-2:00
Nika Jurov
Assistant Professor
Linguistics
Email: jurov@uoregon.edu
Office: Straub 373
Research Interests: speech, computational cognitive science, psycholinguistics, neuroscience
Vsevolod Kapatsinski
Professor
Department Head
Linguistics
Email: vkapatsi@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3923
Office: 367 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290
Office Hours: Mon 2:00p-4:00p, in person (STB 367) or Zoom (https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/8408366848)
Research Interests: computational learning theory, constituency, unitization, frequency effects, probabilistic morphophonology, inferential statistics, usage-based linguistic theory, mechanisms of language change
Kris Kyle
Associate Professor
Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Email: kkyle2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3808
Office: 273 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290
Office Hours: By appointment
Trish Pashby
Senior Instructor II
American English Institute, Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Email: pashby@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3906
Office: 279 Straub Hall
Office Hours: Mon & Wed 2:00p-3:00p
Tom Payne
Research Associate
Linguistics
Email: tpayne@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Typological morphology and syntax. Mother-tongue based multi-lingual education. Philippine languages and Manchu languages.
Gabriela Pérez Báez
Associate Professor
Linguistics, Language Teaching Studies
Email: gperezb4@uoregon.edu
Office: 263 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290
Office Hours: Thursdays 10am - 12pm (or by appointment)<br />
Please sign up for a time slot here: https://tinyurl.com/5n77s5dw
Research Interests: Linguistic diversity, multi/plurilingualism, linguistic rights, Indigenous languages, language revitalization
Melissa (Lisa) Redford
Professor
Linguistics
Email: redford@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3818
Office: 379 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: suprasegmental sound patterns; speech planning & production; child language acquisition
Nathaniel Sims
Assistant Professor
Linguistics
Email: nasims@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Tue 8:00am-10:00am
Research Interests: language documentation and revitalization, historical linguistics, Trans-Himalayan languages
Julie Sykes
Professor
Director of Center for Applied Second Language Studies
Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Email: jsykes@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5699
Office: 277 Straub Hall, 5290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: By appointment only
Allison Taylor-Adams
Research Associate
Linguistics
Email: ataylora@uoregon.edu
Office: 161 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290
Office Hours: Wed 11-1 or by appt. (email for appt)
Research Interests: Language revitalization and language teaching
Rachel Weissler
Assistant Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Sciences
Black Studies, Linguistics
Email: rweissle@uoregon.edu
Office: Straub Hall 375
Office Hours: Please consult your course syllabus or contact the instructor directly for office hours/student hours.
Research Interests: sociolinguistics, emotion perception, neurolinguistics, language and social justice
Keli Yerian
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Director, Language Teaching Studies MA Program, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Certificate
Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Email: yerian@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4302
Office: 167 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290
Office Hours: Wed 11:-1 (in-person Straub 167 or Zoom)
Research Interests: language teacher education, pedagogy, curriculum development, program development, gesture studies, interactional discourse analysis