What makes us different is what makes us human..
Terrence Kaufman
Professor
Terrence Kaufman received his PhD in linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1963.
His interests focus primarily on the documentation through fieldwork of unwritten languages in the New World, especially Latin America.
He has done both descriptive and comparative historical studies on languages of the Mayan, Siouan, UtoAztecan, and OtoManguean families.
He does research on ethnosemantics, dialectology, Gypsies, and the history of English, and has helped train as linguists dozens of Mayan Indians in Guatemala. He has done fieldwork in Mexico, Guatemala, and the United States.
He is currently working on comparative grammars of Mayan and OtoManguean and dictionaries of Huastec and Nahuatl.
Research
Faculty
- Kathleen M. S. Allen
Archaeology, Iroquois, ethnoarchaeology - Joseph S. Alter
Cultural, India, medical anthropology - Marc Bermann
Archaeology, Andes, households - Nicole Constable
Cultural, China, modernity - Olivier de Montmollin
Archaeology, Maya, states - Kathleen M. DeWalt
Cultural, Latin America, medical anthropology - Robert D. Drennan
Archaeology, Latin America, complex societies - Bryan K. Hanks
Archaeology, Russia, zooarchaeology - Robert M. Hayden
Cultural, Eastern Europe, law - Margaret Judd
Physical, Near East, paleopathology - Terrence Kaufman
Linguistic, Mesoamerica, writing systems - Katheryn M. Linduff
Archaeology, China, nomads - Gabriella Lukacs
Cultural, Japan, media - Emily McEwan-Fujita
Linguistic, Scotland, ethnolinguistic revitalization - Mark P. Mooney
Physical, comparative anatomy - Hugo G. Nutini
Cultural, Mesoamerica, social structure - Leonard Plotnicov
Cultural, US, urban studies - James B. Richardson III
Archaeology, Andes, ecology - Harry Sanabria
Cultural, Andes, economic anthropology - Richard Scaglion
Cultural, Pacific, conflict - Jeffrey H. Schwartz
Physical, hominids, evolution - Michael I. Siegel
Physical, functional anatomy, craniofacial - Andrew J. Strathern
Cultural, Pacific, ethnography