Claire Bowern

Claire Louise Bowern
Claire Louise Bowern
Occupation	Linguist
Known for	Computational phylogenetic classification of the Pama-Nyungan language family
Title	Professor
Awards	Kenneth L. Hale Award
Academic background
Alma mater	Australian National University (BA); Harvard University (MA, PhD);
Thesis	Bardi Verb Morphology in Historical Perspective (2004)
Doctoral advisor	Jay Jasanoff, Calvert Watkins
Academic work
Discipline	Linguistics
Sub-discipline	Australian Aboriginal languages, historical linguistics, language documentation
Institutions	The Australian National University; Rice University; Yale University;
Website	Yale University webpage

Claire Louise Bowern (/ˈboʊərn/ BOH-ərn) is a linguist who works with Australian Indigenous languages. She is currently a professor of linguistics at Yale University, and has a secondary appointment in the department of anthropology at Yale.