Jonathan David Bobaljik bobaljik@fas.harvard.edu Chair, Department of Linguistics Professor of Linguistics Research interests: Morphology, syntax, endangered languages, Germanic, Slavic, Arctic Languages
Tanya Bondarenko tbondarenko@fas.harvard.edu Assistant Professor of Linguistics Director, the WOLF Lab Research interests: Syntax, semantics, fieldwork; language families: Algonquian, Altaic (Turkic, Mongolic), Kartvelian, Slavic
Anabelle Caso acaso@fas.harvard.edu Graduate Student Research interests: Syntax-prosody interface, syntax, morphosyntax, historical linguistics, Indo-Iranian linguistics, sandhi phenomena
Xu Chen xu_chen@fas.harvard.edu Visiting Scholar College of Foreign Languages, Qufu Normal University Research interests: Experimental syntax, statistical modeling of language
Gennaro Chierchia chierch@fas.harvard.edu Haas Foundations Professor of Linguistics On leave Fall 2026 Research interests: Semantics, syntax/semantics mapping, pragmatics, philosophy of language, the interface of semantics with language development, language pathology, language processing
Frances Conlin francesconlin@fas.harvard.edu Senior Preceptor, Amercan Sign Language Program Dr. Conlin is the Director of the American Sign Language Program at Harvard.
Jian Cui jiancui@g.harvard.edu Graduate Student Research interests: Theoretical phonology, first language acquisition, tonology
Nayantara Das nayantaradas@g.harvard.edu Graduate Student Department Writing Fellow Graduate Student Union Representative Research interests: Semantics, philosophy of language and psycholinguistics
Kathryn Davidson kathryndavidson@fas.harvard.edu Professor of Linguistics On leave Spring 2027 Research interests: Semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition, sign languages, experimental methods, language and cognition
Michael S. Flier flier@fas.harvard.edu Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology, Emeritus Research interests: Slavic linguistics, semiotics of medieval East Slavic culture
Kathryn Franich kfranich@fas.harvard.edu Assistant Professor of Linguistics Director of Undergraduate Studies Director, PhonLab Research interests: Phonetics, phonology, prosody, tone, experimental methods, fieldwork, African languages
C.-T. James Huang ctjhuang@fas.harvard.edu Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus Research Interests: Syntactic theory; syntax-semantics interface; Chinese linguistics