Katherine R. Russell

Hi! I'm a postdoc at the Script Encoding Initiative, in the linguistics department at UC Berkeley. I'm working on the NSF-funded project "Script Legitimacy in Digital Environments: Investigating Silicon Valley's Position as a Global Language Authority". 

I recently graduated from the PhD program in linguistics at Berkeley. In my dissertation "Nasality in Atchan: Synchrony, diachrony, and typology", I drew on data collected over years of documentation work to thoroughly describe and analyze nasality in Atchan, a Potou language of southeastern Côte d'Ivoire. 

Before coming to Berkeley, I graduated from Georgetown University with a BA in Linguistics and minor in Turkish. Outside of linguistics, I enjoy reading, drinking tea, taking photos, playing volleyball, and solving crossword puzzles. I also love to travel and have studied abroad in Mexico, Turkey, Finland, Tanzania and Poland.