Brook Lillehaugen
Associate Professor, Linguistics, Haverford College
Brook Danielle Lillehaugen is a linguist and associate professor in the Tri-College Department of Linguistics, at Haverford College. She is chair of linguistics at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges, and co-chair of the Tri-College Department of linguistics. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics in 2006 from the University of California, Los Angeles and has been learning from Zapotec speakers since 1999. Lillehaugen’s research profile includes technical grammatical description as well as collaborative language documentation and revitalization projects. She publishes on the grammar of Zapotec languages in both their modern and historical forms. She has found combining linguistic fieldwork with tools from the digital humanities to be a productive way to collaborate with both Zapotec speaking communities and undergraduate students. She is co-director of Ticha, a digital text explorer for Colonial Zapotec texts and leads several teams in developing online Talking Dictionaries for Zapotec languages. Her work has been supported by the NSF, NEH, and ACLS and was awarded the Ernest A. Lynton Faculty Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty. More information can be found at her website: http://brooklillehaugen.weebly.com/.