In Memoriam
Howard I. Aronson
- PhD Indiana University 1961
- Taught at UChicago from 1962 to 2002 (in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Linguistics)
- Served as chair of both the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Linguistics
Paul Friedrich
- PhD Yale 1957
- Taught at UChicago for 5 decades (in Anthropology and Linguistics)
Eric Hamp
- PhD Harvard 1954
- Taught at UChicago from 1950 to 1991
- Author of more than 3500 articles
- Chair, Department of Linguistics, 1966-1969
Karen Landahl
- PhD Brown University 1982
- Taught at UChicago from 1982 to 2003
- Academic Director of the Language Labs and Archives and the Language Faculty Resource Center, and Associate Dean for Computing and Language Technologies at the University
Colin Masica
- Professor Emeritus, Departments of South Asia Languages & Civ. and Linguistics
James (Jim) D. McCawley
- PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1965
- Taught at UChicago from 1964 to 1999
- Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations during last decades of tenure
Erica Reiner
- PhD University of Chicago 1955
- Taught at UChicago from 1956 to 1996
- John A. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor Emerita and Editor of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary at passing
Michael Silverstein
- PhD Harvard 1969
- Taught at UChicago from 1970 to 2020
- MacArthur Fellow 1982
- Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics and Psychology
Norman Zide
- Professor emeritus in the Departments of Linguistics and South Asian languages and Civilizations
- Degrees from New York University, Yale, Columbia University, and the University of Pennsylvania
- Fulbright Scholar and Ford Foundation grant recipient
- Department chair of South Asian languages and civilizations