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LISO Faculty, Visiting Scholars & Alumni

Below is a list of the LISO faculty and their areas of interest and specializations. Click on names of faculty to go to their departmental web pages for further contact information.

  • Gevirtz Graduate School of Education

Teaching of writing, writing in the disciplines, history of literacy genre theory, activity theory, genre theory

  • Department of Linguistics

Trans linguistics, queer linguistics, sociophonetics, computational linguistics, English second-person pronouns, nonbinary identity talk, trans-affirming statistical methods

  • Department of Linguistics

Trans linguistics; sociolinguistics; phonetics; perception; social justice; pedagogy; methodology

  • Department of Linguistics

Sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, language and gender, African American English discourse

  • Department of Linguistics

Psycholinguistics, child language, discourse, Japanese and Korean linguistics

  • Gevirtz Graduate School of Education

Sociology of Education, sociolinguistics and literacy, gender socialization

  • Department of Linguistics

Linguistic anthropology, interactional linguistics, stance, dialogic syntax, spoken corpus construction / English corpus linguistics, Mayan linguistics

  • Professor Emeritus
  • Department of Anthropology
  • UC Berkeley

Sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, urban anthropology, discourse analysis; India, Northwestern Europe, U.S.

  • Graduate Student
Linguistic Anthropology in Education, Critical Applied Linguistics, Language Socialization, Indigenous Language Revitalization, Transnational Indigeneity & Transnationalism, Culturally Sustaining/Disruptive Pedagogy, Conversation Analysis, Ethnography, Interactional Linguistics, Transnational Central Asian Immigrants/Americans, Community Based Learning
 
 
  • Gevirtz Graduate School of Education

Language and communicative development, gender differences in langauge and cognition, language Socialization, cognitive science

  • Department of Linguistics

Corpus-based linguistics, variationist typology, experimental morphosyntax, quantitative methods in linguistics (mixed-effect models, Bayesian hierarchical modelling, bootstrap, discrete time series), discourse and grammar, morphosyntactic alternations, reference tracking, parts of speech, Sino-Tibetan languages (esp. of China and Nepal), prosody and syntax, phonotactics

  • Department of Sociology

Conversation analysis, social aspects of grammar, social life of very young children

  • Gevirtz Graduate School of Education

Trusting relations, social differences, learning, education, cognitive science

  • Department of Sociology

The organization of talk in interaction, sociology of science and technology, sociology of mass communication

  • Department of Linguistics

Interactional linguistics, emergent grammar, interaction and grammar

  • Department of Sociology

Conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, membership categories, race and racism, conflict and violence

  • Department of Sociology

Conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, interaction and social structure

  • Department of Sociology

Conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, China and Chinese

  • Department of Sociology

Conversation analysis, emergency calls to the police, social life of very young children, talk and identity