Dr. Anthony Woodbury

Biography

Anthony C. Woodbury is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Jesse H. Jones Regents Professorship in the College of Liberal Arts. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught in the UT Linguistics Department since 1980, serving as chair for nine years. In 2017, he was elected as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America and has held positions of Vice-President and President within the same society in 2022 and 2023. His research primarily focuses on Indigenous languages of the Americas, particularly the Yupik-Inuit-Unangan languages and the Chatino languages of Oaxaca, Mexico, addressing themes such as tone, prosody, morphology, syntax, historical linguistics, and ethnopoetics. He co-directs the digital Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at UT, which aims to document and revitalize these endangered languages.

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