Department Faculty

Full Time Faculty

Lee S. Bickmore (PhD, UCLA, 1989)
Associate Professor
Director, Linguistics and Cognitive Science Program
Interests: Linguistics, phonology, tone, stress, historical linguistics
Areas: Africa, Polynesia
E-mail:  l.bickmore@albany.edu

George Aaron Broadwell (PhD, UCLA, 1990)
Professor
Interests: Linguistics, syntax, historical linguistics
Areas: North America
E-mail:  g.broadwell@albany.edu

James Collins (PhD, UC-Berkeley, 1983)
Professor
Chair, Anthropology Department
Interests: Linguistics, social theory, Athabaskan studies, education studies
Areas: North America
E-mail:  collins@albany.edu

John S. Justeson (PhD, Stanford, 1978; MS in Computer Science, Stanford, 1988)
Professor
Interests: Linguistics, historical linguistics, language and prehistory, variation and change, writing systems, probabilistic and simulation models, Mesoamerican languages and hieroglyphic writing, Elamite, Indus Valley writing
Areas: Mesoamerica
E-mail:  justeson@albany.edu

Emeritus Faculty

Ernest Scatton (Ph.D. Harvard University)
Professor Emeritus
Interests: Slavic (esp. South Slavic) and general lingustics; Bulgarian language and literature
Areas: Eastern Europe
Past editor, Slavic and East European Journal; Past president, AATSEEL
Email:  scattone@albany.edu

Adjunct Faculty

Krassi Rangelova
Lecturer
E-mail: krassi.rangelov@gmail.com