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Guillem Belmar Viernes

Assistant Professor
Linguistics, Language Teaching Studies
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
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
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
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
Research Interests: speech, computational cognitive science, psycholinguistics, neuroscience

Vsevolod Kapatsinski

Professor
Department Head
Linguistics
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
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
Phone: 541-346-3906
Office: 279 Straub Hall
Office Hours: Mon & Wed 2:00p-3:00p

Tom Payne

Research Associate
Linguistics
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
Office: 263 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290
Office Hours: Thursdays 10am - 12pm (or by appointment)<br /> a sign up sheet is available here: https://tinyurl.com/5n77s5dw

Melissa (Lisa) Redford

Professor
Linguistics
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
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
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
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
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
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