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Jane Chandlee

Jane Chandlee

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

Melanie Drolsbaugh

Instructor, American Sign Language
Linguistics
mdrolsb2@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8421
Pearson Hall 116
Jeremy Fahringer

Jeremy Fahringer

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

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
Linguistics
dharris2@swarthmore.edu
610-690-5785
Pearson Hall 101
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Shizhe Huang

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
Linguistics
dnapoli1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8422
Pearson Hall 116
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Elizabeth Ndeto

Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant
endeto1@swarthmore.edu
610-690-5543

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
610-6109576134
Pearson Hall 105
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Tri-College Class of 2018

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 16 from Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges.

Check them out.....

Kathryn Goldberg '18 Composes Art Song in Endangered Zapotec Language

kathryn goldberg

A linguistics and music double major, Kathryn Goldberg ’18, was able to combine her two academic interests in fall courses with Haverford professors Brook Lillehaugen (linguistics) and Ingrid Arauco (music) to compose what may be the first art song (a classical song, typically set to a poem, written for voice and piano accompaniment) in one of the endangered Zapotec languages of the southwestern-central highlands of Mexico

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Mellon Mays Fellow

Diamond Ray

Diamond Ray ’18 a Linguistics/Spanish major is one of Bryn Mawr’s Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows. Students apply for the program in their sophomore year and each year five students are selected to be part of the program.

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