Nathan W. Hill
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July 8, 1979
Nathan W. Hill | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Hill at SOAS in 2013 | |
| Born | Nathan Wayne Hill July 8, 1979 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Leonard van der Kuijp |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguist |
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| Main interests | |
Nathan Wayne Hill (born July 8, 1979) is an American historical linguist and Tibetologist specializing in languages of the Sino-Tibetan family, in particular Tibetic languages.
He is Sam Lam Professor in Chinese Studies and director of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies at Trinity College Dublin.[1] He was previously reader in Tibetan and historical linguistics at SOAS, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and served as head of department from 2017 to 2019.[2][dead link]
He is particularly well known for his work on comparative Sino-Tibetan, Old Tibetan philology, as well as linguistic typology (especially mirativity and evidentiality).[citation needed]
From 2014 to 2020, Hill was a principal investigator on Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State, a project funded by the European Research Council and hosted by the British Museum.[3][failed verification][4][failed verification] During the academic year 2015–2016 he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley,[5][dead link] and in 2020–2021 at Oxford's Oriental Institute.[6][dead link]
