How to Contact Berkeley Linguistics and Understand Its People and Offices

The Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley (lx.berkeley.edu) publishes its contact and directions information, a full people directory, and its governance and community-support pages directly on the department site. Use the Contact Info and Directions page for location and general contact, the People section to identify faculty, students, researchers, and staff, and the Officers, Committees, Organizers page to see who holds formal roles. The site does not publish individual email addresses or phone numbers in its navigation text, so specific contact details must be read on the linked pages themselves.

Contacting the department

The site's main navigation places Contact Info and Directions under the "About" area, alongside "Officers, Committees, Organizers" and "Climate, Inclusion, and Community Support." To reach the department:

1. Open lx.berkeley.edu.
2. Go to the About section in the main navigation.
3. Select Contact Info and Directions for the department's location and contact details.
4. For a specific person, go to People first and identify the correct role, then use the contact page for the department's general channels.

The homepage footer also carries a Contact Us link and a Contributor login entry, which is relevant if you are affiliated and need to update department content.

Who is in the department

The People menu is organized by role, which makes it the fastest way to find the right person:

If you are unsure who to contact, start with Staff for administrative questions and Faculty for research or program questions.

Officers, committees, and organizers

The Officers, Committees, Organizers page lists the people holding formal departmental roles. This is the page to check when you need to know who chairs a committee, who organizes a program, or who represents the department in an official capacity. It sits in the same "About" group as contact information, so the two are meant to be read together: one tells you how to reach the department, the other tells you who holds which responsibility.

Community, inclusion, and support

The Climate, Inclusion, and Community Support page documents the department's approach to community and support. Prospective students, current members, and visitors who want to understand the department's culture or find support channels should read this page alongside the people directory. The department also acknowledges the Ohlone people as the traditional and unceded landholders of the campus location, a statement carried in the site footer.

Related departmental structure

Several other pages help you place people in context:

• History and Women in Berkeley Linguistics give the department's background and record of contributions.
• Faculty Search indicates current hiring activity.
• Visiting Scholars Program explains how visitors are affiliated.
• Designated Emphasis pages (Cognitive Science; Indigenous Language Revitalization) show cross-departmental programs that affiliated faculty and students may belong to.

Practical notes

• The site is a department website, not a general university directory; for campus-wide contact information, use UC Berkeley's main directory.
• Navigation labels on the site are the reliable guide to page locations; the exact wording of contact details should be taken from the Contact page itself rather than assumed.
• Events listed on the homepage include a link to request ASL interpretation, which is the route to arrange accessibility support for department events.

In short: use Contact Info and Directions to reach the department, People to find individuals by role, and Officers, Committees, Organizers plus Climate, Inclusion, and Community Support to understand how the department is run and how it supports its members.