Anthony C. Woodbury

Biography

Anthony C. Woodbury earned his B.A. in Linguistics in 1975 from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1981. He has taught in the UT Linguistics Department since 1980, and served as its chair, 1998-2006. He was elected President of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas for the year 2005. His current research project, "Documentation of Chatino, an Otomanguean language group of Oaxaca, Mexico" is supported by the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (administered by the University of London). He is also co-director of the Archive for Indigenous Languages of Latin America, supported by NSF and NEH.