Cristiana Lucchetti is a linguist with expertise in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics and cognitive linguistics. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago (Swiss National Science Foundation grant no. 242261).
Her major research interests are the interrelation between minoritized language vitality, the environment and wellbeing; language ideology and social categorization; and the cognitive mechanisms of language-mixing.
In her current project, she investigates the impact of environmental factors - such as residential segregation, deprivation, life in center vs. periphery - on language vitality and wellbeing in heritage speaker communities of Albanian and Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian (BCMS) in Switzerland and the US. Her languages of fieldwork expertise include Russian, BCMS, Albanian, Hebrew and varieties of German. She pursues a comparative perspective on language vitality and the environment in immigrant and Indigenous minoritized languages, with a developing interest in Basque and Diné.