Current Members – Anabaptist Linguistic Research Network (ALRN)

	Josh Brown is associate professor of German and linguistics at the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire. His primary research interests are in heritage languages, language shift, and historical sociolinguistics. He has published articles in American Speech, Critical Multilingualism Studies, Journal of Language Contact, and others. His book Pennsylvania Germans: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, co-edited with Simon J. Bronner, appeared in 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press. His academic website can be found here: https://www.joshuarbrown.com/
	Mike Putnam is an Associate Professor of German and Linguistics at Penn State University. His research focuses on the structural design of language and the division of labor between morphology, syntax, and semantics. His work on global varieties of heritage German and related minority languages seeks to gain a better understanding of the acquisition and development of these grammars across the lifespan. His academic website can be found here: https://psumikeputnam.weebly.com
	Christopher Cox is an Assistant Professor in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton University. His research centers on issues in language documentation, description, and revitalization, with a special focus on the creation and application of permanent, accessible collections of language resources (corpora). For the past twenty years, he has been involved with community-based language documentation, education, and revitalization efforts, most extensively in partnership with speakers of Plautdietsch, the traditional language of the Dutch-Russian Mennonites, and with Dene communities in Alberta and the Yukon. His academic website can be found here: https://carleton.ca/slals/people/cox-christopher/
	Göz Kaufmann is a professor of German Linguistics (Germanistische Linguistik) at the University of Freiburg, Germany. His academic website can be found here: http://paul.igl.uni-freiburg.de/kaufmann/
	Mark L. Louden is the Alfred L. Shoemaker, J. William Frey, and Don Yoder Professor of Germanic Linguistics and the Director of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he is also an affiliate in the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies and the Religious Studies and Language Sciences programs. A fluent speaker of Pennsylvania Dutch, most of his research and public outreach examine the language within the context of the faith, history, and culture of its speakers, especially the Amish and Old Order Mennonites. He is the author of Pennsylvania Dutch: The Story of an American Language (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016; paperback, 2019), which won the 2017 Dale W. Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. In his community service he serves as an interpreter and cultural mediator for Pennsylvania Dutch speakers in the legal and health care systems. His academic website can be found here: https://gns.wisc.edu/person/mark-l-louden/
	Richard Page is an associate professor of German Linguistics at Penn State.
	Guido Seiler studied German and Slavic Philologies at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), where he also received his doctoral (2003) and habilitation (2008) degree. After postdoctoral research at Stanford (2003–2004, with Joan Bresnan) and Konstanz (2006–2007, with Aditi Lahiri) he taught as lecturer for German Linguistics at the University of Manchester (2008-2009), as full professor at the Universities of Freiburg/Germany (2009–2014), Munich (2014–2019), and (as of 1 August 2019) Zurich. His research focuses on variation and change in phonology, morphology, and syntax, with a strong emphasis on connecting empirical and theoretical approaches. On the empirical side, his interests include prosodic phonology of German dialects, nonconcatenative morphology, case marking, nonfinite complementation, language contact in German-speaking language islands (in particular the Amish Shwitzer language of northern Indiana); on the theoretical side, Lexical-Functional Grammar, Optimality Theory, the relationship between I-language and E-language, and language evolution, in particular the evolution of Duality of Patterning. His doctoral dissertation has been awarded the Johann-Andreas-Schmeller prize (2007) and his habilitation thesis the UBS habilitation prize (2009). His academic website can be found here: https://www.ds.uzh.ch/p/seiler2
	Graduate Students
	Rose Fisher is a graduate student in German Linguistics and Language Science at Penn State University. She graduated from Millersville University in 2018 with a bachelors degree in German and Psychology. She is interested in Anabaptists not only linguistically and as a native speaker of Pennsylvania Dutch but also because she was born into an Amish family. Her parents decided to leave the community when she was eleven years old which is why she was able to go to high school and college. Her aims are to better understand the roots of the Pennsylvania Dutch language and people, to better understand how they are related to German and the German-speaking parts of Europe, and to connect with other people who are doing research in these areas.
	Robert Klosinski is a Ph.D. candidate at Penn State. His research interests lie in diachronic and synchronic language contact phenomena, especially in terms of phonology and phonetics. He is currently studying Swiss heritage speakers of Ohio as well as Misiones, Argentina. Additionally, he is interested in other German dialects spoken in Misiones, such as Hunsrik.
	Nora Vosburg is a Ph.D. candidate at Penn State. Her research interests lie in language contact phenomena that emerge over long periods of time, in particular in the syntax-semantics interface. Her research is focusing on bilingual heritage communities in the Americas (in particular Plautdietsch-English bilingual Mennonite speakers), and the interaction between extra- and intra-linguistic factors on language use. Her academic website can be found here: http://noravosburg.weebly.com/