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On Tuesday, Sept. 19, a group of UW-Madison faculty were honored for prestigious fellowship awards received this year. Language Sciences Professor Monica Macaulay was one of 5 faculty at the celebration to be recognized for …

Language Sciences professor Laura Horton is Principle Investigator on a project funded by the Humanities Without Walls Consortium‘s Grand Research Challenge. The award provides $150,000 over a three-year period, and is funded by the Mellon …

We are hiring a student Multimedia Intern for the coming year – Linguistics majors with some of the relevant skills are encouraged to apply!   We are looking for a student with strengths in at …

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) with Ada Deer Professor Monica Macaulay Work as part of the research team on the National Science Foundation grant “Comparative Database of Algonquian Derivational Morphology“ Term: Academic year 2023-2024 Two …

UW-Madison student and WORT reporter Heewone Lim spoke with Language Sciences’ Rebecca Shields about her efforts to teach the Irish language on campus. Listen to the WORT interview and read the story here

We are incredibly proud that Language Sciences Professor Monica Macaulay was one of five UW-Madison faculty to receive a prestigious WARF Named Professorship in 2023-2024. The award recognizes faculty for their extraordinary contributions to scholarship …

Photos courtesy of Rachyl Hietpas and Charlotte Vanhecke Several members of Lang Sci were fortunate enough to travel to beautiful Banff, Canada for the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference this spring! Multiple UW-Madison linguists presented research …

Photo credits: Miranda Vescio The focus of our Capstone in Linguistics course this semester was “Topics in Menominee Grammar.” Menominee is an Algonquian language indigenous to the areas now known as the States of Wisconsin, …

A recent Cap Times news article discusses our new American Sign Language program.