Peter Bellwood is Professor of Archaeology in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University, Canberra. He is author of Man's Conquest of the Pacific (Collins 1978), The Polynesians (Thames and Hudson 1987), Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago (U. Hawaii and Academic 1987), and First Farmers (Blackwell 2005, and winner of the 2006 Book Award of the Society for American Archaeology) |
School of Archaeology and Anthropology Australian National University, Canberra Peter.Bellwood@anu.edu.au |
Bernard Comrie is Director of the Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig [and Professor of Linguistics at the University of California Santa Barbara]. His main interests are language universals and typology, historical linguistics (including in particular the use of linguistic evidence in interdisciplinary research to reconstruct aspects of prehistory), linguistic fieldwork, and languages of the Caucasus. |
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology AND Department of Linguistics University of California Santa Barbara comrie@eva.mpg.de |
| Peter de Knijff is Professor in population genetics and evolutionary genetics in the Department of Human Genetics at Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands. His research interests are very diverse and include the Phylogeography of Large White-headed Gulls, the objective interpretation of forensic DNA evidence, and the development and use of Y-chromosome polymorphisms to reconstruct human migration. He is the principal coordinator of the multi-center European Science Foundation research programme Language and Genes in the Greater Himalayan Region, which is reaching completion this year. | |
Steve Evans is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a probabilist and statistician working in the general area of stochastic processes and their applications, including: phylogenetic invariants, interference and recombination; computational phylogenetic methods in historical linguistics; probability and real trees, particularly applications of ideas from metric geometry; and frequency spectra in population genetics. |
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Jane Hill is Regents' Professor
of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Arizona and past-President
of the American Anthropological Society. She has published extensively on broader issues in language
contact and language change, including "Speaking Mexicano" (1986,
with Kenneth C. Hill). Her interests are primarily in Native American languages
of the Uto-Aztecan family, where she has done field work on Cupeño,
Mexicano (Nahuatl), and Tohono O'odham (Papago). She is particularly
interested in the way archaeological information influences and suggests
hypotheses for testing with historical linguistic methods. |
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Brett Kessler is Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is interested in computational and statistical approaches to language, particularly in the fields of phonology, historical linguistics and the lexicon. Among his publications is The Significance of Word Lists: Statistical Tests for Investigating Historical Connections Between Languages (CSLI, 2001), which tests the factor of chance in historical comparisons using mathematical statistics. |
Psychology Department |
Johanna Nichols is Professor in the Slavic Department at UC Berkeley. Her research interests include the Slavic languages, the linguistic prehistory of northern Eurasia, language typology, ancient linguistic prehistory, and languages of the Caucasus, chiefly Chechen and Ingush. She is the author of Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time (Chicago, 1992), a pioneering work for the understanding of human migrations in prehistory, and is a leading figure in the typology and geography of the languages of Eurasia. |
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Mark Stoneking heads the Molecular Anthropology group in the Department of Evolutionary Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. His research interests include: using molecular genetic analyses to address questions concerning human population history, structure, origins, and migrations; and the influence of language, residence pattern, subsistence pattern, and other cultural factors on the genetic structure of human populations. |
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology stoneking@eva.mpg.de |
Tandy Warnow is Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research combines mathematics, computer science, and statistics to develop improved models and algorithms for reconstructing complex and large-scale evolutionary histories in both biology and historical linguistics. She received a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1994, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Award in Science and Engineering in 1996. |
The University of Texas at Austin - ICMB tandy@cs.utexas.edu |
Workshop organizer Philip Baldi is Professor of Linguistics and Classics at Penn State University, where he teaches courses in general, historical and classical linguistics. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii (1980), University of Amsterdam (1987), the University de la Laguna, Tenerife (1996), and Stanford (2002); he was the Fulbright Chair in Historical Linguistics at the University of Naples (1996), and taught at the LSA Summer Institute at Stanford in 1987. His research interests center around historical linguistics, including methodology, Indo-European linguistics, and historical syntax. http://php.scripts.psu.edu/dept/lsrg/index_files/Page901.htm |
| Discussants |
| Juliette Blevins (Max Planck), Pierluigi Cuzzolin (Bergamo), Jim Fox (Stanford), Marianne Mithun (UCSB), Joanna Mountain (Stanford), Stanley Peters (Stanford), Asko Parpola (Helsinki) |
| Workshop Assistant |
| Nicole Lindner: e-mail: nicole.lindner@gmail.com |