Daniel Kaufman

Daniel Kaufman

Daniel Kaufman co-founded ELA with the goal of bringing together linguists with immigrant and Indigenous communities in NYC who speak endangered languages. Born and raised in Sapokanikan (Greenwich Village), he obtained his BA in linguistics from the University of the Philippines and his PhD in linguistics from Cornell University in 2010 with a specialization in the Austronesian languages of island Southeast Asia. He joined Queens College in 2015, where he is Associate Professor, and co-edits Oceanic Linguistics, a journal devoted to the study of the indigenous languages of the Oceanic region and Island Southeast Asia.