Lenore Grenoble


Lenore A. Grenoble is an American linguist specializing in Slavic and Arctic Indigenous languages, currently the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor and Chair at University of Chicago.
Grenoble earned her Ph.D. in Slavic Linguistics at University of California, Berkeley. Her research is primarily concerned with endangered languages. She was elected to serve as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Linguistic Society of America for a five-year term from 2018 to 2023. In 2018, Grenoble was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work in Linguistics.
She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.

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