Katherine R. Russell

Hi! I'm a recent graduate of the PhD program in Linguistics at UC Berkeley. In my dissertation "Nasality in Atchan: Synchrony, diachrony, and typology", I draw on data collected over years of documentation work to thoroughly describe and analyze nasality in Atchan, a Potou language of southeastern Côte d'Ivoire. I'm a recipient of the NSF GRFP. Before coming to Berkeley, I graduated from Georgetown University with a BA in Linguistics and minor in Turkish.

Outside of linguistics, I enjoy reading, taking photos, playing piano, drinking tea, and solving puzzles (crossword, jigsaw, you name it). I also love to travel and have studied abroad in Mexico, Turkey, Finland, Tanzania and Poland. I speak (to varying degrees) English, Spanish, French, Polish, Turkish, Finnish, Swahili, Atchan and Guébie.