Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker

Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker serves as the Associate Dean of Academic Personnel and Operations in the College of Arts, Languages & Letters at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Prior to this administrative role, she held faculty appointments including:

• Professor in the Department of Linguistics
• Cooperating graduate faculty in the Department of Second Language Studies
• Affiliate faculty in the Center for Pacific Island Studies

As a documentary linguist, Dr. Berez-Kroeker specializes in endangered language preservation through the lens of language as a human behavioral phenomenon embedded in discourse and society. Her research examines how grammatical structures emerge from cultural and linguistic practices within speech communities. She actively develops technological infrastructure for field linguistics to ensure long-term data sustainability and interoperability, while bridging linguistic theory with archiving practices, technological innovation, and community-driven language activism. Recent work focuses on advancing reproducible research methodologies across the language sciences to strengthen scholarly rigor and data transparency.

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