Chair

Laura Michaelis

Laura Michaelis

Professor and Department Chair
Linguistics
Laura A. Michaelis is a cognitive-functional syntactician and semanticist specializing in the tense-aspect interface, corpus syntax, syntactic innovation, lexical semantics, the discourse-syntax interface, semantic change and Latin syntax and semantics. She is also one of the leading developers of Construction Grammar, a syntactic theory that represents the grammar of a language as a structured inventory of patterns ranging from the highly schematic to the very specific. She is the author...

Undergraduate Associate Chair

Chase Wesley Raymond

Chase Wesley Raymond

Associate Professor • Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies
Linguistics • Family Medicine (CU Anschutz School of Medicine)
Chase Wesley Raymond is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, as well as a core faculty member in the interdepartmental Program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP) . He also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Family Medicine , at the University of Colorado, Anschutz School of Medicine . Prior to coming to CU-Boulder, he was a Visiting Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for...

Graduate Associate Chair

Rebecca Scarborough

Rebecca Scarborough

Associate Professor • Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Linguistics
Rebecca Scarborough has been a faculty member in Linguistics and a fellow in the Institute of Cognitive Science at CU since 2007. Dr. Scarborough works in the areas of phonetics and laboratory phonology. Her research explores systematic variation in speech sounds, particularly variation that might be due to communicative factors (like how confusable a word is or what context it’s said in). She also investigates the consequences that this variation...

Advisor

Raphael Angoulvant

Raphael Angoulvant

Undergraduate Academic Advisor
Raphael was born in France but moved (or rather, was moved) to Colorado when he was a few months old. He attended K-12 in Colorado Springs before pursuing a BA in History at University of Colorado Denver. After completing his BA in 2021, Raphael left for Paris to pursue Columbia University’s MA in History and Literature. His thesis investigates world-building and Orientalism in Franco-Belgian graphic novels ( bandes dessinées )...

Librarian

katie randall

Katie Randall

Linguistics Liaison & Projects Librarian
University Libraries
Katie Randall joined the University Libraries faculty in September 2023 as an Interdisciplinary Librarian in the inaugural cohort of the Librarians of the Future Diversity Residency Program . She supports students, faculty and researchers in the subject area of Native American and Indigenous Studies. Katie’s responsibilities include collection development, instruction, and student engagement. Her research interests include the applications of sustainable practices to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the...

Staff

Ethan McGinnis

Ethan McGinnis

Education Program Assistant
Linguistics
Ethan McGinnis joined the Department of Linguistics in February 2023. He had previously worked in sponsored research administration at Northwestern University. Ethan earned an MFA in studio art in 2020 from the University of California - Irvine, where he served in a variety of administrative capacities. His artistic and scholarly research interests include rural museology, US geography/toponymy, Orientalism, American Egyptomania, and biblical narrative. He enjoys car camping and commuting via bicycle.
kris stenzel

Kristine Stenzel

CLASIC Program Manager
Linguistics
Dr. Kristine Stenzel received her PhD. in Linguistics in 2004 from the University of Colorado and was a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), now retired. Dr. Stenzel’s research has focused primarily on the description, documentation, and analysis of Kotiria (Wanano) and Wa’ikhana (Piratapuyo), languages of the East Tukano family, spoken in the Upper Rio Negro region of northwest Amazonia. Her...