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University Of Georgia

Linguistics Slavic languages Phonology Sociolinguistics Historical Linguistics Morphology Phonetics

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Keith Langston is University Professor, Head of the Department of Linguistics, and Undergraduate Coordinator at the University of Georgia, where he holds the position of Professor of Linguistics and serves as an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in Slavic Linguistics from Yale University in 1994, with additional degrees including an M.Phil. and M.A. in Slavic Linguistics from Yale and a B.Mus. in Piano Performance from the University of Alabama in 1986. Before joining the University of Georgia faculty in 1995 as Assistant Professor in Germanic & Slavic Studies, he taught as Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University from 1992 to 1995. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2001 and Professor in 2015. Langston has held numerous administrative roles, including Head of Germanic & Slavic Studies from 2003 to 2006 and Interim Head from 2015 to 2016, Director of the Linguistics Program from 2016 to 2017, and Head of the Linguistics Department since 2017. He developed the A.B. in Russian degree program, coordinated the Russian language program from 1995 to 2017, and led the transition of the linguistics program to a full department.