Georgia Zellou
UC Davis
Georgia Zellou is a Full Professor of Linguistics at UC Davis. Her research aims to understand how and why speech sounds vary across languages and during linguistic communication. Her research program addresses foundational questions in phonetic theory, laboratory phonology, and theories of the phonetic underpinnings of phonological variation and change, with applications to speech technology and language acquisition. She works on these issues in a variety of languages (such as Lakota, Tashlhiyt Berber, Tigrinya, dialectal Arabic, Mandarin, French, and German). Georgia has (co-)directed the Phonetics Lab at UC Davis since 2014. Her work has been funded by numerous agencies, including NSF, Amazon Science, Fulbright, and the Hellman Foundation. Georgia was co-Director of the 2019 LSA Linguistic Institute at UC Davis and was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2020 for this role. Georgia is currently co-Editor-in-Chief for Linguistics Vanguard. She has served on several LSA committees, including the Public Relations Committee, the Awards Committee, the Committee on Institutes and Fellowships, and the Committee for Editors of Linguistics Journals.