SIL-UND Faculty Members

The SIL-UND faculty consists of active scholars who spend most of the year engaged in linguistic research and service to language communities in many countries around the world. Some return to Grand Forks every summer to teach, others rotate in on a more occasional basis.

Linguistics graduate faculty

The core of SIL’s faculty are also adjunct members of the University’s graduate faculty, and as such are available to supervise graduate students in UND’s M.A. in linguistics.

	Jan Allen (Ph.D. 2011 Heinrich Heine Universität): morphosyntax, Role and Reference Grammar, Philippine languages, Kankanaey
	Joan L.G. Baart (Ph.D. 1987 University of Leiden): descriptive linguistics, prosody, acoustic phonetics, languages of Pakistan. Professional page
	Adam Baker (Ph.D. 2008 University of Arizona): phonology, articulatory and acoustic phonetics, Iranian languages, language documentation. Professional page
	J. Albert Bickford (Ph.D. 1987 University of California, San Diego): morphology, signed languages, indigenous languages of Mexico, computer-assisted linguistic analysis, annotation of interlinear text materials. Professional page
	John M. Clifton (Ph.D. 1980 Indiana University): phonology, orthography, sociolinguistics, language documentation, languages of Papua New Guinea, bilingualism and language patterns in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
	Douglas Fraiser (Ph.D. 2007 University of Florida): social and political organization; economic anthropology; culture change; religious movements; land tenure, land use, and livelihood systems; farming systems, hillside agriculture, agroforestry, and deforestation; worldview. Professional page
	Robert Fried (Ph.D. 2010 State University of New York, Buffalo): descriptive linguistics, linguistic typology, grammar writing, discourse, Bao'an Tu (Bonan, Tongren Tu), Mangghuer (Minhe Monguor), Mongolic languages.
	Mark E. Karan (Ph.D. 1996 University of Pennsylvania): sociolinguistics, language shift, language vitality. Professional page
	Stephen A. Marlett (Ph.D. 1981 University of California, San Diego): theoretical linguistics, phonology, syntax, Otomanguean languages, Seri, Koine Greek.
	James S. Roberts (Ph.D. 1980 Georgetown University): phonology, orthography, tone analysis, morphosyntax, African linguistics, Chadic and Chadian languages, French.
	Keith W. Slater (Ph.D. 1998 University of California, Santa Barbara): Mangghuer (Minhe Monguor), descriptive linguistics, grammar and grammar writing, discourse, historical linguistics, language contact, Mongolic comparative studies, satirical linguistics.
	Kristine M. Trammell (Ph.D. 2006 Biola University): Mother-tongue-based multilingual education, Minority language literacy, Language acquisition, Education research, Curriculum development, Primary school education. Professional page
	James Watters (Ph.D. 1988, University of California, Berkeley): descriptive linguistics, morphology and syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse, Totonac-Tepehua language family

Other regular instructors

In addition to the graduate faculty, the SIL summer program is enriched by the presence of other instructors who teach courses regularly. In recent years these have included the following:

John Berthelette (M.A. 2004 University of North Dakota): field methods
Anita C. Bickford (M.A. 1989 University of North Dakota, M.F.A. 1978 University of Minnesota): articulatory phonetics, second language acquisition.
Kevin Cline (M.A. 2013 University of North Dakota): phonology
Dan Eberle (M.A. 2013 University of North Dakota): sign languages, media technology
M. Heather Fried (Ph.D. 2009 State University of New York, Buffalo): cognitive anthropology, linguistic anthropology, minority nationalities in China
Kathy Hansen (Ph.D. 2006 Purdue University): sign language phonology
Linda Humnick (Ph.D. 2009 University of Minnesota): discourse, central Asian languages
Elke Karan (M.A. 2006 University of North Dakota): literacy, orthography
Mary Morgan (Ph.D. 1980 Georgetown University): Literacy, sociolinguistics
Steve Parkhurst (M.A. 1989 University of Texas, Arlington): sign language phonetics, phonology, 3D animation, writing systems, literacy, sociolinguistic survey, and translation
Katie Tang (Ph.D. 2008 University of California, Los Angeles): phonetics, phonology, tone, Chinese languages
Christina Truong (M.A. 2004 Biola University): phonology, language documentation, voice and alignment, Austronesian languages
Stuart M. Thiessen (M.A. 2011 University of North Dakota): sign language morphosyntax
Juanita Watters (Ph.D. 2011 University of Arizona): literacy, language development, Tepehua
David J. Weber (Ph.D. 1983 Univeristy of California, Los Angeles): Quechua, Amerindian languages, syntax
Diana D. Weber (Ph.D. 2003, Syracuse University): reading education, teacher education, Quechua.