Department Administration

Laura A. Michaelis is a cognitive-functional syntactician and semanticist specializing in the tense-aspect interface, corpus syntax, syntactic innovation, lexical semantics, the discourse-syntax interface, semantic change and Latin syntax and semantics. She is also one of the leading developers of Construction Grammar, a syntactic theory that represents the grammar of a language as a structured inventory of patterns ranging from the highly schematic to the very specific. She is the author...

Kira Hall is Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology . She also has affiliated faculty positions in The College of Media, Communication, and Information (CMCI) and the Department of Women and Gender Studies (WGST). She received her PhD in Linguistics in 1995 at the University of California, Berkeley, and has since held faculty positions at Rutgers, Yale, Stanford, and the University of Colorado. Spanning linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics, her research focuses...

Rebecca Scarborough has been a faculty member in Linguistics and a fellow in the Institute of Cognitive Science at CU since 2007. Dr. Scarborough works in the areas of phonetics and laboratory phonology. Her research explores systematic variation in speech sounds, particularly variation that might be due to communicative factors (like how confusable a word is or what context it’s said in). She also investigates the consequences that this variation...

Raphael was born in France but moved (or rather, was moved) to Colorado when he was a few months old. He attended K-12 in Colorado Springs before pursuing a BA in History at University of Colorado Denver. After completing his BA in 2021, Raphael left for Paris to pursue Columbia University’s MA in History and Literature. His thesis investigates world-building and Orientalism in Franco-Belgian graphic novels ( bandes dessinées )...

Katie Randall joined the University Libraries faculty in September 2023 as an Interdisciplinary Librarian in the inaugural cohort of the Librarians of the Future Diversity Residency Program . She supports students, faculty and researchers in the subject area of Native American and Indigenous Studies. Katie’s responsibilities include collection development, instruction, and student engagement. Her research interests include the applications of sustainable practices to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the...

Ethan McGinnis joined the Department of Linguistics in February 2023. He had previously worked in sponsored research administration at Northwestern University. Ethan earned an MFA in studio art in 2020 from the University of California - Irvine, where he served in a variety of administrative capacities. His artistic and scholarly research interests include rural museology, US geography/toponymy, Orientalism, American Egyptomania, and biblical narrative. He enjoys car camping and commuting via bicycle.

Linda Park joined Linguistics in September 2021. Linda has been working at CU Boulder since August 2019 where she was the Program Manager in the Program in Jewish Studies. Linda serves on the Arts & Sciences Staff Advisory Council, and on the CU Boulder Sustainability Council. She was a Staff Council Area 6 Representative from February - July 2021. She also served for two years on the CUSG Recreation Council...

Dr. Kristine Stenzel received her PhD. in Linguistics in 2004 from the University of Colorado and worked for thirteen years as a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Dr. Stenzel’s research has focused primarily on the description, documentation, and analysis of Kotiria (Wanano) and Wa’ikhana (Piratapuyo), languages of the East Tukano family, spoken in the Upper Rio Negro region of northwest...