Linguistics Faculty
Chair
Associate Professor
Associate Dean of the College
Email: hansency@grinnell.edu
On leave 2023–24 academic year. Cynthia Hansen began teaching in the Linguistics Concentration at 99¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ in January 2012. Her research focuses on the documentation and linguistic description of Iquito, a highly endangered language of the Peruvian Amazon. She teaches the core courses within the...
Professor
Assistant Vice President of Global Education
Email: frenchb@grinnell.edu
Brigittine French joined the 99¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ faculty in 2003 and is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program. French is a linguistic and political anthropologist whose diverse body of teaching and research focuses on theoretical and ethnographic approaches to narrative...
Assistant Professor
Email: glewweel@grinnell.edu
Eleanor Glewwe earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics from UCLA in 2019. Her research interests lie in phonology and phonetics. She uses artificial grammar learning experiments to test whether people are biased toward learning phonetically natural phonological patterns. More recently, she has become...
Professor
Email: heroldk@grinnell.edu
Kelly Herold has spent several summers, a spring and two winters in Russia. Her research on memoir and travel writing has taken her to Dublin, London and Prague. She has written commentary to Sumarokov's Ody torzhestvennye (included in a facsimile edition, a project directed by Ronald Vroon and E.P...
Professor
Email: mercadoa@grinnell.edu
Part of what attracted Angelo Mercado as a college freshman to Classical Latin was the language’s antiquity. It didn’t take long for Angelo to fall in love with its sound and rhythm. His excitement grew to include the comparison of texts from different languages, embracing Greek and languages of...
