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  [### Jonathan David Bobaljik

 ](/people/jonathan-bobaljik) <bobaljik@fas.harvard.edu>Chair, Department of Linguistics

Professor of Linguistics 

 

 

 Research interests: Morphology, syntax, endangered languages, Germanic, Slavic, Arctic Languages 

 

 

      ![Jonathan Bobaljik](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/bobaljik_2018.jpg?itok=RXl7-W55) 

 

 

 

   [### Tanya Bondarenko

 ](/people/tatiana-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 

 

 

      ![Tanya Bondarenko](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/tanya_bondarenko_pic.jpg?itok=-DgJwEFG) 

 

 

 

   [### Gennaro Chierchia

 ](/people/gennaro-chierchia) <chierch@fas.harvard.edu>Haas Foundations Professor of Linguistics

 

 

 Research interests: Semantics, syntax/semantics mapping, pragmatics, philosophy of language, the interface of semantics with language development, language pathology, language processing 

 

 

      ![Gennaro Chierchia](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/papa022_000.jpeg?itok=z1TFSqRS) 

 

 

 

   [### Frances Conlin

 ](/people/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. 

 

 

      ![Frances Conlin](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/frances_conlin_pic.jpg?itok=J-n517FL) 

 

 

 

   [### Kathryn Davidson

 ](/people/kathryn-davidson) <kathryndavidson@fas.harvard.edu>Professor of Linguistics

 

 

 Research interests: Semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition, sign languages, experimental methods, language and cognition 

 

 

      ![Kathryn Davidson](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/kd.jpg?itok=HgERTQg0) 

 

 

 

   [### Kathryn Franich

 ](/people/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 

 

 

      ![Kathryn Franich](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/franich_photo_0.jpg?itok=K-kiWicV) 

 

 

 

   [### Jay Jasanoff

 ](/people/jay-jasanoff) <jasanoff@fas.harvard.edu>Diebold Professor of Indo-European Linguistics and Philology, Emeritus

 

 

 Research interests: Indo-European and general historical linguistics, historical linguistics of individual Indo-European branches (Indo-Iranian, Anatolian Hittite, Greek, Italic, Celtic, Tocharian, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic, Armenian, Albanian) 

 

 

      ![Jay Jasanoff](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/jj_berlin_72602_darkened.jpg?itok=nVVn8JP1) 

 

 

 

   [### Jeremy Rau

 ](/people/jeremy-rau) <rau@fas.harvard.edu>Professor of Linguistics and the Classics

 

 

 Research interests: Greek and Latin historical linguistics, Homeric language, Indo-European languages and linguistics, Indo-Iranian linguistics 

 

 

      ![Jeremy Rau](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/rau08.jpeg?itok=-z_iEXyS) 

 

 

 

   [### Kevin Ryan

 ](/people/kevin-ryan) <kevinryan@fas.harvard.edu>Professor of Linguistics

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Linguistics

 

 

 Research interests: Phonology, prosody, metrics, quantitative methods 

 

 

      ![Kevin Ryan](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/kryan_headshot2026.jpg?itok=x6dro6ES) 

 

 

 

   [### Stuart M. Shieber

 ](/people/stuart-m-shieber) <shieber@seas.harvard.edu>Affiliated Faculty offering Instruction in the Department of Linguistics

James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science

 

 

 

      ![Stuart Shieber](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/shieber_photo.jpg?itok=RjxJD_qc) 

 

 

 

   [### Jesse Snedeker

 ](/people/jesse-snedeker) <snedeker@wjh.harvard.edu>Affiliated Faculty offering Instruction in the Department of Linguistics

Professor of Psychology

 

 

 

      ![Jesse Snedeker](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/jesse_snedeker.jpg?itok=-8N9OFj5) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

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