Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan and 2017 LSA Collegiate Fellow (Linguistics)
About
Savithry Namboodiripad earned her PhD from the University of California, San Diego, and her BA and MA from the University of Chicago. She grew up speaking Malayalam in Minnesota, and her research explores how social structure shapes language use, variation, and emergence, particularly in multilingual post-colonial and immigrant contexts. Her teaching interests include linguistic discrimination and language policy, and she's currently part of a collaboration looking at climate issues in linguistics.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Language acquisition; multilingualism; fieldwork; historical linguistics; language contact; language variation; psycholinguistics; sociolinguistics; syntax; language evolution; language & discrimination
