Asya Pereltsvaig

PhD in Linguistics, McGill University; and has taught at Yale, Cornell and Stanford, as well as in several U.S. and European universities. Her expertise is in language and history, and the relationship between them. Her most recent books, Languages of the World: An Introduction, 3rd edition (2020) and The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics (2015) were published by Cambridge University Press. Asya is a popular instructor for Santa Clara University’s OLLI program and was the faculty host for the OLLI trip to the Baltic countries and St. Petersburg in July 2017.