DAVID BOROMISZA-HABASHI, Department of Communication
ethnography of communication; cultural discourse analysis; moral and political discourse; folk metadiscourse; intercultural communication; free speech theory; security needs assessment

ESTHER BROWN, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
sociolinguistics; Spanish linguistics; language variation and change; Spanish in the United States; language and gender

ANDREW COWELL, Departments of Linguistics and French and Italian
linguistic anthropology; oral traditions, especially medieval and Native American; performance; language and literacy; Algonquian linguistics

ROBERT CRAIG, Department of Communication
communication theory; social theory; discourse analysis; rhetoric; argumentation; group interaction

STAN DEETZ, Department of Communication
organizational and institutional discourse; discourse theory; communication theory; discourse and power; collaboration; dialogue; community development; ethics

KATHY ESCAMILLA, School of Education
second language acquisition; sociolinguistics and education; bilingual education (foundations and methods); ESL education

MICHAELE FERGUSON, Department of Political Science
contemporary political theory; democratic theory; philosophy of language; feminist theory; political rhetoric

BARBARA FOX, Department of Linguistics
grammar and interaction; conversation analysis; discourse analysis; situated/distributed cognition

KRIS GUTIERREZ, School of Education

KIRA HALL, Program Director, Departments of Linguistics and Anthropology
sociolinguistics; linguistic anthropology; discourse analysis; language and identity; language, gender, and sexuality; globalization, nationalism, and modernity in the Indian context; South Asian languages, particularly Hindi

LESLIE IRVINE, Department of Sociology
social psychology; narrative; self; human-animal interaction; qualitative methods; gender

SUSAN JUROW, Department of Education
learning, teaching; interaction analysis; microethnography; classroom-based research; anthropology of education

LISE MENN, Department of Linguistics
child language acquisition; discourse and aphasia; psycholinguistics; language disorders

GAIL RAMSBERGER, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Science
language and cognitive disorders; aphasia; conversational interaction

ARTEMI ROMANOV, Department of Germanic and Slavic
sociolinguistics; intergenerational communication; youth slang; language policy; lexicology (lexical borrowings); and second language acquisition

DAVID ROOD, Department of Linguistics
anthropological linguistics; endangered languages; ESL; Siouan and Caddoan languages

BRENDA SCHICK, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Science
sign language development; sign language acquisition; ASL; child language acquisition

HIDEKO SHIMIZU, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
learning strategies; psycholinguistics and technology; second language acquisition

GUILLERMO SOLANO, School of Education
assessment; English language learners; science education; testing; sociolinguistics; mathematics education

KAREN TRACY, Department of Communication
discourse analysis; face and identity work; language and social interaction in institutional settings, particularly education governance, police-citizens exchanges, and academic meetings

CHRISTINE YOSHINAGA-ITANO, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Science
language acquisition; language development of hearing impaired children