Savithry Namboodiripad
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Professional Title
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Department(s)
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA)
Linguistics
About
Savithry Namboodiripad uses experimental methods to study how languages vary and change in multilingual contexts. She further has a series of collaborations studying the field of linguistics, including harassment and bias, decolonial approaches, and interrogations of essentialist theoretical constructs such as "native speaker."
Research Interests
social sciences
mixed methods
ethnicity
sexual harassment/gender harassment