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Jeff Heath is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan, specializing in linguistic fieldwork and historical linguistics. With a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago obtained in 1976, he has conducted significant fieldwork on Australian Aboriginal languages in the 1970s, Maghrebi Arabic in the 1980s, and languages of interior West Africa, particularly in Mali and southwestern Burkina Faso. His research interests encompass language documentation, historical linguistics, morphology, and prosody, particularly in African languages. He has received multiple grants from organizations such as the National Science Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation, supporting his work on Dogon languages and other African linguistic projects. His approach integrates rich morphology studies and tonal-prosodic systems analysis, contributing valuable insights into the evolution of these languages. He continues to advance the understanding of linguistic diversity through his research and fieldwork.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science