Linguistics Faculty
Melissa Baese-Berk
David M. and Nancy L. Petrone Faculty Scholar; Professor
Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Email: mbaesebe@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3899
Office: 279 Straub Hall
Office Hours: By appointment only
B Mokaya Bosire
Senior Instructor
African Studies, Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Email: mokaya@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3916
Office: 377 Straub Hall
Office Hours: Mon/Wed 3:30p-4:30p or by appt.
Research Interests: Swahili, Sheng, African languages & Urban vernaculars
Don Daniels
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Linguistics
Email: ddaniels@uoregon.edu
Office: 275 Straub Hall
Office Hours: Tue 1:30p-3:30p
Research Interests: language change, comparative reconstruction, morphosyntax, Papuan languages, fieldwork
Shiloh Drake
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Linguistics
Email: sdrake@uoregon.edu
Office: E383 1600 Millrace
Spike Gildea
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Linguistics
Email: spike@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0480
Office: 381 Straub Hall
Office Hours: Mon 2:00p-4:00p, Tue 10:00a-11:00a
Vsevolod Kapatsinski
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Linguistics
Email: vkapatsi@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3923
Office: 367 Straub Hall
Office Hours: Mon 12:00p-2:00p, in person or Zoom
Research Interests: computational learning theory, constituency, unitization, frequency effects, probabilistic morphophonology, inferential statistics, usage-based linguistic theory, mechanisms of language change
Tyler Kendall
Professor
Linguistics, SAIL
Email: tsk@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3199
Office: 373 Straub Hall
Kris Kyle
Associate Professor
Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Email: kkyle2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3808
Office: 273 Straub Hall
Office Hours: Tue 1:15p-3:15p
Florian Matter
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Linguistics
Email: fmatter@uoregon.edu
Office: 280 Straub Hall
Research Interests: digital linguistics, language description, Cariban languages, corpus linguistics
Trish Pashby
Senior Instructor
American English Institute, Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Email: pashby@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3945
Office: 220B Agate Hall
Office Hours: Tue & Thu 10:30a-11:30a
Rebecca Paterson
Research Associate
Linguistics
Email: rpaters3@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0796
Office: 147 Esslinger Hall
Office Hours: In person Fri 1:00p-2:00p, virtual appts. avail Tue & Thu 9:00-9:45am (must schedule 24hrs in advance)
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
Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Email: gperezb4@uoregon.edu
Office: 263 Straub Hall
Office Hours: Tue 1:00p-3:00p
Melissa (Lisa) Redford
Professor
Department Head
Linguistics
Email: redford@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3818
Office: 379 Straub Hall
Office Hours: By appointment only
Research Interests: suprasegmental sound patterns; speech planning & production; child language acquisition
Narayan Sharma
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Linguistics
Email: narayans@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3914
Office: 281 Straub Hall
Research Interests: Language documentation and description; endangered and minority Tibeto-Burman languages; morphology and syntax; linguistic typology, and field linguistics
Julie Sykes
Professor
Director of Center for Applied Second Language Studies
Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Email: jsykes@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5699
Office: 1600 Millrace Dr., Ste 201
Allison Taylor-Adams
Research Associate
Linguistics
Email: ataylora@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3945
Office: 161 Straub Hall
Research Interests: Language revitalization and language teaching
Rachel Weissler
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
incoming Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Fall 2023
Center for Translational Neuroscience, Linguistics, Psychology Department
Email: rweissle@uoregon.edu
Office: E383 1600 Millrace
Keli Yerian
Senior Lecturer II
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
Office Hours: Tues & Thurs 12:00p-1:45p (in-person or Zoom)
Research Interests: language teacher education, pedagogy, curriculum development, program development, gesture studies, interactional discourse analysis