Department Chair


Gregory Hickok
  • Distinguished Professor and Chair, Language Science
    Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1991

  • neural architecture of speech and language, evolutionary origins of music and speech, aphasia

  •  SBSG 2341

  • gshickok@uci.edu
  • Lab

 

Director of Graduate Studies


Richard Futrell
  • Graduate Director & Associate Professor, Language Science
    Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017

  • linguistics, natural language processing, bayesian modeling

  •  SSPB 2215

  • rfutrell@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV

 

Director of Undergraduate Studies


Gregory Scontras
  • Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director, Language Science; Associate Director of C-ALPHA
    Ph.D. Linguistics, Harvard University, 2014

  • semantics, pragmatics, cognitive modeling, philosophical logic

  •  SSPB 2221

  • g.scontras@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
  • CV

 

Graduate Advisor


Jennifer Gerson
  • Director, Graduate Affairs
    Ed.D., University of Southern California, 2020

  • educational counseling, graduate student exceptions/petitions, teaching assistant applications and assignments

  •  5210 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway | (949) 824-4074

  • jennifer.gerson@uci.edu
  • For any administrative questions concerning the graduate application process, financial award opportunities, and/or other pre-enrollment matters, please contact the Graduate Studies Office.

 

Academic Personnel Officer


Kai Wehmeier
  • Dean's Professor and Director of C-ALPHA; Director of Undergraduate Studies for Logic & Philosophy of Science
    Ph.D., Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster,  1996

  • logic, philosophy of logic and language, formal semantics, early analytic philosophy, and philosophy of mathematics

  •  783 Social Science Tower | 949-824-7792

  • wehmeier@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV

 

Administrative Staff


Jennifer Fogarty
Tami Hoksbergen
  • Department Analyst

  •  Social Science Plaza B, Room 2237 | 949-824-1207

  • thoksber@uci.edu

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

Mailing list for announcements for the Language Science Department:
https://department-lists.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/langsci-announce

Mailing Address
Department of Language Science
3151 Social Science Plaza A
University of California-Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-5100

Telephone: (949) 824-2766

Email: langsci@uci.edu

Direction (UCI Campus)
The Department Administrative Suite is located on the 7th floor of the Social Science Tower Building.
See: SST Building (201)

 

Directions to the campus can be found here.

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