Summary
Bradley Mcdonnell is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa with nine years of academic experience focused on documenting and describing Austronesian languages of Sumatra. He combines documentary and corpus linguistics with data science methods to produce collaborative, community-centered research that emphasizes training and capacity building for both local language communities and Indonesian scholars. Trained at UC Santa Barbara (PhD) and Arizona State University (MA), he bridges rigorous theoretical scholarship with practical fieldwork and digital data practices. Based in Honolulu, he leads projects that often yield open linguistic corpora and tools tailored to under-documented languages, reflecting a commitment to sustainable, locally grounded language preservation.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, English (Linguistics), Master of Arts - MA, English (Linguistics) at Arizona State University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara