Faculty
People
Faculty

Becker, Misha
Professor, Department Chair
Smith Building 109 & 301
mbecker@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. 2000, University of California, Los Angeles
Specialization: Language acquisition, language revitalization
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 1-2pm and by appointment.

Hsu, Brian
Assistant Professor, Diversity Liaison
Smith Building 105
hsub@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. 2016, University of Southern California
Specialization: Syntax, syntax-phonology interface
Office Hours: F 12:45-2:15 or by appointment

Mora-Marín, David
Professor, OUR Liaison, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Smith Building 307
davidmm@unc.edu
Ph.D. 2001, State University of New York at Albany
Specialization: Mayan languages and epigraphy, historical linguistics
Office Hours: W 9:00-9:50 am or by appointment

Moreton, Elliott
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies and Graduate Admissions
Smith Building 101
moreton@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. 2002, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Specialization: Phonetics, phonology, inductive learning
Office Hours: Tentative: T 2–3, F 2:30–3:30, and by appointment

Pertsova, Katya
Associate Professor and Honors Advisor
Smith Building 308
pertsova@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. 2007, University of California, Los Angeles
Specialization: Morphology, computational linguistics
Office Hours: T/F 12-1pm

Roberge, Paul
Professor
Dey Hall 441
ptr@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. 1980, University of Michigan
Specialization: Historical linguistics, pidgins and creoles
Office Hours: By Appointment Only

Rodriguez, Jamilläh
Assistant Professor
Smith Building 302
jamillah@email.unc.edu
2021, State University of New York at Albany
Specialization: Phonology, computational linguistics, and low-resource languages
Office Hours:

Smith, Caitlin
Teaching Assistant Professor
Smith Building 108
csmith14@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. 2018, University of Southern California
Specialization: Phonology, Computational Linguistics, Phonetics
Office Hours:

Smith, Jennifer
Professor, Associate Chair
Smith Building 309
jlsmith@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. 2002, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Specialization: Phonology, Phonetics, Japanese Linguistics
Office Hours: W 12:15-1:15 and by appointment

Terry, J. Michael
Associate Professor, Summer School Administrator
Smith Building 303
jmterry@unc.edu
Ph.D. 2003, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Specialization: Semantics, African-American English
Office Hours: F 11:00a-12:00p or by appointment
Affiliated Faculty

Butler, Becky
SASB North 0127
becky.butler@unc.edu
Ph.D. 2014, Cornell University
Specialization: Southeast Asian languages, phonology, ESL

Hirotani, Masako
hirotani@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. 2005, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Specialization: Neurolinguistics
Lecturers
St. John, Julie
stjohn@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. 2004, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Specialization: General linguistics
Emeritus
Hendrick, Randy
Ph.D. 1979, University of California, Los Angeles
Specialization: Syntax
Melchert, H. Craig
melchert@humnet.ucla.edu
Ph.D. 1977, Harvard University
Specialization: Indo-European languages
Linguists and Language Scholars in Other Departments
Jennifer Arnold Psychology and Neuroscience; psychology and psycholinguistics
Uffe Bergeton Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; early Chinese language, history, and thought
Lucia Binotti Romance Studies; Spanish philology, cultural thought, linguistic historiograph
Laura Demsey Romance Studies; French linguistics, language contact, first and second language acquisition
Bruno Estigarribia Romance Studies; Spanish linguistics, language development and cognition
Peter C. Gordon Psychology and Neuroscience; psychology of language
Lamar Graham Romance Studies; Spanish linguistics
Thomas Hofweber Philosophy; philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics
Joseph Lam Religious Studies; Hebrew and Semitic Languages, writing in the Ancient Near East
Martha Ruiz-Garcia Romance Studies; Spanish linguistics
Patricia E. Sawin American Studies; ethnography of communication
Sophia Strietholt Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures; second language learning, language pedagogy