2009
Joan Houston Hall
Copy contact details to clipboardExpert on the American English language and its regional and social dialects
Chief editor, Dictionary of American Regional English; senior scientist, English
608-263-2744 (Work)
Home phone available upon request.
Joan Houston Hall
Chief editor, Dictionary of American Regional English; senior scientist, English
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Expert on the American English language and its regional and social dialects
http://www.dare.wisc.edu
jdhall@wisc.edu
608-263-2744 (work)
Home phone available upon request; e-mail experts@uc.wisc.edu
Areas of expertise
- American English from the colonial period to the present
- Regional variation in American English
- Social variation in American English
- Lexicography (dictionary-making)
Notable achievements
- President, American Dialect Society, 2005-06
- President, Dictionary Society of North America, 1999-2001, named fellow of the society in 2009
- Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research, 2004
- Principal investigator on grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, etc.