Lenore Grenoble


Lenore A. Grenoble is an American linguist specializing in Slavic and Arctic Indigenous languages. She is currently the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor and chair at University of Chicago.

Education and research

Grenoble earned her Ph.D. in Slavic Linguistics at University of California, Berkeley. After receiving her PhD she took up an academic position at Dartmouth College. She remained there until 2007, when she moved to the University of Chicago.
Her research focuses on the study of contact linguistics and language shift, discourse and conversation analysis, deixis, and issues in the study of language endangerment, attrition, and revitalization.

Honors and awards

In 2018, Grenoble was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work in Linguistics.
Grenoble was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017. She was elected to serve as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Linguistic Society of America for a five-year term from 2018 to 2023. She was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2023. Grenoble received the Quantrell Award in 2025.

Selected works