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Lenore A. Grenoble
John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor
Department of Linguistics & The College, University of Chicago
Director of the Arctic Linguistic Ecology Lab
M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia
Lenore Grenoble earned a BA in Russian at Cornell University in 1979 and a PhD in Slavic Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986. Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2007, she taught at Dartmouth College from 1986-2007. Grenoble currently holds a Megagrant from the Government from the Russian Federation as lead researcher and director of the Arctic Linguistic Ecology Lab, M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of the Fulbright Arctic Distinguished Chair, Norway in 2018-2019.