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Faculty & Staff

Jane Chandlee

Jane Chandlee

Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Haverford College
jchandlee@haverford.edu
610-795-3371
Haverford College Chase 106
Jeremy Fahringer

Jeremy Fahringer

Laboratory Instructor
Linguistics
jfahrin1@swarthmore.edu
610-957-6131
Pearson Hall 102

Ted Fernald

Professor
tfernal1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8437
Pearson 117
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Emily Gasser

Emily Gasser

Visiting Assistant Professor
Linguistics
egasser1@swarthmore.edu
610-957-6162
Pearson Hall 104
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K. David Harrison

Professor, Chair
Provost's Office
dharris2@swarthmore.edu
610-690-5785
Pearson Hall 101
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Shizhe Huang

C.V. Starr Professor of Asian Studies Associate Professor of Chinese and Linguistics, Haverford College
shuang@haverford.edu
610-896-1262
Haverford College Chase 103B
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Tricia Irwin

Visiting Assistant Professor
Linguistics
pirwin1@swarthmore.edu
610-690-6887
Pearson Hall 108
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Peter Klecha

Visiting Assistant Professor
Linguistics
pklecha1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8203
Pearson Hall
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Dorothy Kunzig

Dorothy Kunzig

Administrative Assistant
Linguistics
dkunzig1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8421
Pearson Hall 118
Brook Lillehaugen

Brook Lillehaugen

Assistant Professor of Tri-College Linguistics
blilleha@haverford.edu
Haverford College Chase 103A
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Donna Jo Napoli

Professor of Linguistics and Social Justice, Faculty Member at Large
dnapoli1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8422
Parrish Hall 213
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Amanda Payne

Haverford College Linguistics
apayne1@haverford.edu
Chase 206
Katherine Riestenberg

Katherine Riestenberg

Postdoctral Fellow
Bryn Mawr Linguistics
kriestenbe@brynmawr.edu
Dalton 110

Jamie Thomas

Assistant Professor
Linguistics
jthomas6@swarthmore.edu
610-957-6045
Pearson Hall 107
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Jonathan Washington

Assistant Professor
Linguistics
jwashin1@swarthmore.edu
610-957-6134
Pearson Hall 105
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Tri-College Class of 2019

All Tri-College Linguistics majors are required to write a thesis in the fall of their senior year. This year we have 31 seniors writing theses, including 18 from Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges.

Check them out.....

Linguistics Alumni where are they now?

Check out Jonathan Rosa '03

Jonathan is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and, by courtesy, Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics at Stanford University. He analyzes the interplay between racial marginalization, linguistic stigmatization, and educational inequity. Dr. Rosa is author of Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad.  His work has appeared in scholarly journals such as the Harvard Educational Review, American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, and the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, as well as media outlets such as MSNBC, NPR, CNN, and Univision.

Juhyae Kim ’19 Receives Beinecke Scholarship to Explore Languages in Grad School

Unsure of her chances and walking out of a first-thing-Monday-morning class, Juhyae Kim ’19 needed a moment to process the news of receiving a Beinecke Scholarship.

“When it finally hit me, my reaction was to call my parents and celebrate with them,” says Kim, a linguistics major, one of 18 students across the U.S. to be awarded $34,000 for graduate studies.

Kim plans to enter a Ph.D. program in linguistics and is researching programs with an emphasis on fieldwork — an interest sparked in her Field Methods class with Visiting Assistant Professor Emily Gasser.

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