Samantha Prins
Samantha Prins
PhD, Linguistics
McGill University
Curriculum Vitae (Summer 2026)
About Me
I am a postdoctoral fellow in Linguistics at McGill University and a recent graduate from the University of Arizona. I study language revitalization and morphosyntactic theory with an emphasis on Indigenous American languages. My current work involves animacy and hierarchy effects in Haudenosaunee and Algonquian languages, and developing reciprocal approaches to language work through community-university partnerships.
+ Language Revitalization
+ Community-based Research & Documentation
+ Morphosyntax
+ Algonquian Languages
+ Haudenosaunee Languages
+ Mayan Languages
+ Sign Languages
+ Syncretism
+ Feature Systems
+ Distributed Morphology
Updates
+ August 2026: Accepted a Canada Impact+ Research Training Award postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University
+ June 2026: CoLang 2026 held in Reno, NV
+ May 2026: Graduated from University of Arizona!
+ Feb 2026: Indigenous Languages of the Americas & their Structures: Sounds published by LSP
+ Jul 2025: Foundational Approaches to Celtic Linguistics published by LSP
+ Jan 2025: Elected to the CoLang Advisory Circle
+ Jun 2024: CoLang 2024 held in Phoenix, AZ
+ Mar 2024: Awarded Bilinski Fellowship for dissertation work in 2024-2025
+ Mar 2024: Awarded SBS Summer Dissertation Fellowship for Summer 2024
Photos from a 2022 (non-work) visit to Iceland