Officers

PRESIDENT, FOUNDER & DIRECTOR
Dr. Gregory D.S. Anderson, Ph.D.

Gregory D. S. Anderson

Dr. Anderson specializes in the languages of Siberia and tribal languages of India. He has degrees in Linguistics from Harvard (A.B. 1989) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D. 2000), and has conducted extensive fieldwork into the languages of the Altai Sayan group and among speakers of Munda languages in India. Greg has done fieldwork in Nigeria on Eleme, on Koro Aka, Hruso and other Tibeto-Burman languages in Arunachal Pradesh, in Bolivia on Kallawaya and Chipaya, in Paraguay on Yshyr (Chamacoco), Mak’a and Toba-Qom, on nearly a dozen languages belonging to eight different families in Papua New Guinea, in Chile on Tsesungun (Hulliche), and in Oregon on Siletz Dee-Ni. He has published widely in the fields of historical linguistics, descriptive grammar, morphology, verb typology, and the linguistics of Munda, Salishan, and Ogonoid languages.

View Dr. Anderson’s Bibliography


VICE-PRESIDENT
Prof. Jeffrey Wills

Jeffrey Wills currently specializes in the languages of southern Africa and reconstruction of the history of the Niger-Congo language family. Educated at Harvard and Oxford in classical languages and Indo-European linguistics, he was subsequently a professor at the University of Wisconsin. Since the mid-90s, he has been active in rebuilding educational institutions and non-profits in Ukraine. Prof. Wills has taught at the University of Zimbabwe and been a fellow at the African Languages Research Institute. He continues to lead projects related to documenting and revitalizing languages at risk (including Kalanga, Nambya, Ndau, Chikunda, and Tawara of the Bantu family and Tjwao of the Khoisan group). His recent scholarship focuses on the historical phonology of Proto-Bantu and the Grassfields languages.

 

TREASURER & ATTORNEY-IN-FACT
Jonathan M. Anderson, Esq.

Mr. AndersonJonathan M. Anderson, has served as our principal financial officer since August 2008 and as our legal counsel since our inception. Jonathan currently advises small businesses and financial sponsors on matters of corporate and finance law in Seattle, Washington, and brings years of legal and financial expertise and experience to the Living Tongues table. He also serves on our board of directors. Jonathan received his Juris Doctor degree from New York University School of Law in 1996 and his B.A. degree in German Studies from Amherst College in 1991.

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