Professor
Linguistics
Office: LBB 431
Andrew Cowell (PhD, UC Berkeley 1993) is a Professor of Linguistics and Faculty Director of Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies (CNAIS). He works in the areas of linguistic anthropology and language documentation. He has worked primarily on Arapaho, and also Gros Ventre and Miwok, and has an interest in Polynesia (Hawaii and Tahiti in particular) as well. He has published numerous articles and books, as well as developing curricular material and websites for language and culture learning and documentation. His current project is to develop a lexical database of Arapaho, with funding from the NSF/NEH DEL program.