Faculty
Edna Andrews
Director of the Program in Linguistics
Office: 321B Languages Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90259, Durham, NC 27708-0259
Phone: (919) 660-3142
Edna Andrews is Professor of Linguistics and Cultural Anthropology, Nancy & Jeffrey Marcus Distinguished Professor of Slavic & Eurasian Studies, and Chair of the Linguistics Program at Duke University. She received her PhD from Indiana University and holds an honorary doctorate from St....
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Dominika M Baran
Associate Professor in Linguistics
Office: English Department, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-2741
My main research interests lie in the area of language, identity, and migration. I am particularly interested in how migrant identities are formed and enacted through discourse and linguistic practices, such as code-switching and translanguaging. My recent book, Language in Immigrant America...
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Elabbas Benmamoun
Professor of the Linguistics Program
Benmamoun’s research has specifically focused on the following broad areas: (i) the syntax of functional categories, particularly tense, agreement, negation, and coordination, (ii) the nature of lexical and morphological relations, particularly the issue of whether lexical relations in Arabic (...
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Elika Bergelson
Assistant Professor in the Program in Linguistics
Office: 210 Soc-Psych Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90086, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 660-8753
Office Hours: By appointment.
Dr. Bergelson is accepting applications for PhD students in the 2018-2019 Cycle; she accepts through the Developmental and Cog/CogNeuro areas of P&N and the CNAP program.
In my research, I try to understand the interplay of processes during language acquisition....
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Robert N. Brandon
Professor of Philosophy
Office: 209 West Duke Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Duke Box 90743, Durham, NC 27708-0743
Phone: (919) 660-3067
Robert N. Brandon (Ph.D. 1979, Harvard) joined the Duke Faculty in fall of 1979. He holds a joint appointment in Philosophy and Biology . He has published articles in Philosophy of Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science...
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Gail Clements
Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics
I’m a linguadork—I embrace it; I revel in this side of myself. I enjoy language: the breath, the formation, the sound, the art, the word on the page. Even more, I relish studying how and why people (myself included) use language, how we manipulate it and how we are manipulated by it. Moreover, I...
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Ruth S. Day
Associate Professor in the Linguistics Program
Office: 223 Soc/Psych Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90086, Durham, NC 27708-0085
Phone: (919) 660-5694
Cognitive processes in the laboratory and in everyday life.
Basic Cognition
A wide range of basic cognitive processes and their interconnections, especially perception, memory, comprehension, representation, and problem solving. Special emphasis on: 1) alternative...
Luciana Fellin
Associate Professor of the Practice of Linguistics Program
Office: 105 Language Center, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708-0257
Phone: (919) 660-3117
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:00-4:00 and by appointment (Languages 105)
Luciana Fellin (fellin@duke.edu) Associate Professor of the Practice of Italian and Linguistics, Director of the Italian Language Program. I received a Laurea in English and German Literature from the University of Bologna, and a Ph.D. from the University of...
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Owen Flanagan
James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy
Office: 201E West Duke Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Duke Box 90743, Durham, NC 27708-0743
Phone: (919) 660-3056
Office Hours: On leave 2016-2017
Owen Flanagan was born and raised in Westchester County New York. He received his Ph.D. in 1978 from Boston University. He taught for sixteen years (1978-1993) at Wellesley College as Class of 1919 Professor of Philosophy. In 1993 he came to Duke where he is James B. Duke University Professor...
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Hae-Young Kim
Professor of the Practice in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Office: 2204 Erwin Road Room 223, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
Phone: (919) 660-4364
Her research and teaching interests include L2 Korean morpho-syntactic development, bilingualism, heritage language development and maintenance, and content-based instruction of language with focus on history, literature and cultural studies. She has published on tense/aspect morphology and...
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Reiko Mazuka
Research Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Office: 323 Soc-Psych, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Duke Box 90085, Durham, NC 27708-0085
Phone: (919) 660-5702
Language acquisition and psycholinguistics. In particular, she is interested in the development and consequences of acquiring very different types of languages. The research has taken a cross-linguistic approach between English and Japanese, and her current research involves the following...
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Karen Neander
Professor of Philosophy
Office: 201 West Duke Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Duke Box 90743, Durham, NC 27708-0743
Phone: (919) 660-3050
Office Hours: To make an appointment, email Neander at kneander@duke.edu.
Neander is Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Philosophy at Duke. She joined the department in 2006, after holding positions in other philosophy departments in Australia and the US, including the University of Sydney, the...
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Michael Newcity, J.D.
Lecturing Fellow
Office: 303 Language Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90260, Durham, NC 277080260
Phone: +1 919 660 3150
William M. O'Barr
Professor Emeritus of Cultural Anthropology
Office: 135 Social Sciences, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
Phone: (919) 684-8863
William M. O'Barr, Ph.D. Northwestern 1969, is currently writing books about advertising and masculinity and about the history of legal anthropology. His extensive publications focus primarily on legal anthropology and include such concerns as law and politics in rural Africa, communication in...
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Liliana Paredes
Professor of the Practice of Linguistics
Office: 102 Language Center, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708-0257
Phone: (919) 660-3100
Current interests: second language acquisition of vocabulary; curricular implications of low, mid and high stakes activities to understand writing in a second language; development of intercultural competence, assessment.
Gareth O. Price
Visiting Assistant Professor of the Linguistics Program
Office: 316 Language Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90259, Durham, NC 27708-0259
Phone: (919) 684-6561
Gareth is a sociolinguist and political sociologist who completed a jointly-supervised PhD at the University of Essex in 2009. Since 2010, he has taught in the Linguistics Program at Duke; his teaching includes the core course Introduction to Linguistics, as well as courses in language policy,...
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Alexander Rosenberg
Professor in the Linguistics Program
Office: 203A W Duke Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Duke Box 90743, Durham, NC 27708-0743
Phone: (919) 660-3047
Alex Rosenberg (Ph.D. 1971, Johns Hopkins) joined the Duke faculty in 2000. He is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy (with secondary appointments in the biology and political science departments). Rosenberg has been a visiting professor and fellow of the at the Center for the Philosophy...
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David C. Rubin
Juanita M. Kreps Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Office: 221 Soc-Psych, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90086, Durham, NC 27708-0086
Phone: (919) 660-5732
Please refer to the Rubin Lab website
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Julie A. Tetel
Professor of Linguistics
Office: 319 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 681-7610
Julie Tetel (Andresen) writes in the field of linguistic historiography, focusing on French, German, and American theories of language from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. She is the author of Linguistics in America 1769-1924: A Critical History (Routledge, 1990, paperback...
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Michael Tomasello
Professor in the Linguistics Program
Office: 247 Soc Psych Bldg, Box 90086, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 660-8752
Major research interests in processes of social cognition, social learning, cooperation, and communication from developmental, comparative, and cultural perspectives. Current theoretical focus on processes of shared intentionality. Empirical research mainly with human children from 1 to 4 years...
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Clare J. Tufts
Professor of the Practice Emerita of Romance
Office: 106 Language Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708-0257
Phone: (919) 660-3126
Second language acquisition, Foreign Language Pedagogy, la bande dessinée
Ingeborg C. Walther
Professor of the Practice of Germanic Languages and Literature
Office: 116J Old Chemistry Building, Box 90256, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90050, Durham, NC 27708-0050
Phone: (919) 660-3163
Office Hours: Mon. 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Wed. 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Ingeborg Walther is Professor of the Practice of Germanic Languages and Literature. A graduate of Stanford University (B.A.), Tufts University (M.A.) and the University of Michigan (Ph.D.), she joined the faculty of Duke University in 1994. Since then she has served as German Language Program...
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