Core Faculty
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Ahn, Dorothy
- Dorothy Ahn
- Assistant Professor
- Personal Website
- Email:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Interests: Semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, syntax/semantics mapping
- Office: Room 305
- Office Hours: Tuesday 3:30-4:30PM
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Akers, Crystal
- Crystal Akers
- Online Program Coordinator; Associate Teaching Professor
- Personal Website
- Email:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Interests: On-line pedagogy, linguistics curricular development, phonological learning
- Office: Room 303
- Office Hours: On Sabbatical Fall 2026 (otherwise: Wednesdays 10am-11am and by appointment: https://calendly.com/cakers-ling)
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Akinlabi, Akin
- Akin Akinlabi
- Professor
- Email:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Interests: Phonology, Morphology, Optimality Theory, West African Linguistics
- Office: Room 202
- Office Hours: Thursdays 4:00-5:00 pm
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Baker, Mark
- Mark Baker
- Distinguished Professor
- Personal Website
- Email:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Interests: Comparative syntax, linguistic universals, semantic roles, Amerindian and African languages
- Office: Room 203
- Office Hours: Wednesday 11:00AM-12:00PM
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Déprez, Viviane
- Viviane Déprez
- Professor
- Personal Website
- Email:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Interests: Comparative syntax, syntax/semantics interface, Romance and Creole languages
- Lab: Comparative and Experimental Linguistics Lab
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 9:30-10:30am and by appointment
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Faculty
Core Faculty
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McCollum, Adam
Contact for Graduate Program Matters: grad (at) linguistics (dot) rutgers (dot) edu
Emerita/-us Faculty
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Camacho, José
Dr. Camacho is now at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Dayal, Veneeta
Dr. Dayal is now at Yale University.
Faculty Advancement Criteria
TT Faculty members
Information about the TT Faculty Recruitment Process, and Reappointment and Promotion criteria may be found here.
NTT Faculty members
SAS Criteria for Appointment, Reappointment, and Promotions may be found here.
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Jardine, Adam
- Adam Jardine
- Associate Professor
- Personal Website
- Email:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Interests: Phonology, learning theory, computational linguistics, language documentation, typology, mathematical linguistics
- Office: Room 205A
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Kouneli, Maria
- Maria Kouneli
- Assistant Professor
- Personal Website
- Email:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Interests: Syntax, Morphology, number, complementation, agreement, Greek, Kipsigis
- Office: Room 203
- Office Hours: Mondays 12pm - 1pm
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Mazumdar, Barnali
- Barnali Mazumdar
- Speech and Hearing Advisor; Assistant Teaching Professor
- Email:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Leadership Email:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Interests: Aphasia assessment development, Language in aphasia and aging
- Office: Room 106
- Office Hours: Wednesday 1:00-3:00PM
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McCollum, Adam
- Adam McCollum
- Graduate Program Director; Associate Professor
- Personal Website
- Email:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Interests: Phonology, laboratory phonology, phonology-phonetics interface, fieldwork, language documentation, Central Asian and West African languages
- Office: Room 204
- Office Hours: Thursday 9:30-10:30AM, 2:30-3:30PM
Contact for Graduate Program Matters: grad (at) linguistics (dot) rutgers (dot) edu
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Messick, Troy
- Troy Messick
- Undergraduate Program Director; Associate Professor
- Personal Website
- Email:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Leadership Email:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Interests: Syntax, Morphology, pronouns, agreement, ellipsis
- Office: Room 302
- Office Hours: Monday 9:00-10:00AM
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Syrett, Kristen
- Kristen Syrett
- Department Chair; Professor; Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Science
- Personal Website
- she/her
- Email:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Leadership Email:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Interests: Language acquisition, experimental semantics and pragmatics, psycholinguistics, syntax/semantics interface
- Office: Room 304
- Office Hours: Wednesday 9:00-10:00AM and by appointment
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Tesar, Bruce
- Bruce Tesar
- Professor
- Personal Website
- Email:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Interests: Computational learning & parsing, Optimality Theory, phonology
- Office: Room 109
- Lab: On sabbatical AY 2025-2026
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Xiang, Yimei
- Yimei Xiang
- Associate Professor
- Personal Website
- Email:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Interests: Semantics, Pragmatics, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Philosophy of Language, Chinese and East Asian Linguistics
- Office: Room 205
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:45pm - 1:45pm
