Introduction of Emily Hanink

The linguistics department is excited to introduce our newest faculty member, Dr. Emily Hanink. Dr. Hanink joined our faculty from The University of Manchester in Manchester, England, where she completed her postdoctoral. Before that, Dr. Hanink attended the University of Chicago and spent a year in Berlin, Germany to finish off her PhD. She is originally from Connecticut, but she says that by living in Chicago for a long time, she feels a connection to the midwest. This connection brought her to Indiana University.

Emily Hanink

During her first visit, she mentions that both the beauty of Bloomington and our department’s interests played a part in making Indiana University feel like a great fit for her. Dr. Hanink’s main area of specialization is Syntax, but she also is interested in Morphosyntax and Syntax/Semantics conceptual interface. Since 2015, Dr. Hanink’s main area of research has been looking at the isolate language of Washoe (wá꞉šiw) which is spoken around Lake Tahoe in California and Nevada. She started her research as a PhD student at the University of Chicago and has been working on the language since.

Upon joining IU, she was surprised to see such a breadth of languages offered at the university and has seen first-hand in the classroom how diverse the students' language interests can be. Dr. Hanink was able to teach undergraduate Morphology this past fall and will be teaching Intro to Syntax for undergraduates and Advanced Syntax for graduates in the spring. Dr. Hanink says that she is excited to get more involved in the Chin Languages Project that has arisen around the Burmese communities in Indiana.

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