Judith Kroll

Judith Kroll serves as a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Language Science at the University of California, Irvine, within the School of Social Sciences. Her research is supported by major grants from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, focusing on bilingual cognition and language processing mechanisms.

Her academic foundation includes a Ph.D. from Brandeis University.

Professor Kroll's research program centers on how bilingual individuals manage dual-language systems within a single cognitive architecture, revealing fundamental insights about language-cognition interactions obscured in monolingual populations. Her work spans psycholinguistics, bilingualism, second language acquisition, lexical processing, and visual cognition, with significant contributions to understanding gender dynamics in scientific fields.

She currently leads a $5.2 million NSF Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) grant establishing a global research network for language scientists across undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels to conduct bilingualism research abroad.

Her scientific recognition includes:

• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Fellow of the American Psychological Association
• Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science
• Fellow of the Psychonomic Society
• Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists

Professor Kroll co-founded the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition and established Women in Cognitive Science—a National Science Foundation-supported initiative advancing gender equity in cognitive science through mentoring and professional development programs.