The University of Wisconsin-Madison is a multilingual university!
The video above was created by the Language Institute, with L&S Strategic Communications and Advancement, and shown to incoming undergraduate students and their families at Student Orientation, Advising, and Registration.
The profiles below are of members of the UW-Madison community who share the many ways that language intersects with their academic, other professional, and personal identities. We also recommend that you check out the Multilingualism and Education in Wisconsin website created by UW-Madison student Claire Darmstadter!
Adeola Agoke
Credentials: Languages: English, Yoruba, Pidgin English
Position title: Teaching Faculty and Director of the African Language Program, Department of African Cultural Studies
Krzysztof Borowski
Credentials: Languages: Polish, English, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Italian, Russian, some Spanish
Position title: Lecturer in Slavic, Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+
Chen Chen
Credentials: Languages: English, German, Mandarin
Position title: Graduate Student in German
Maxwell Chibuogwu
Credentials: Languages: Ika, English, Nigerian pidgin
Position title: PhD Student in Plant Pathology
Molly Donnellan
Credentials: Languages: French and English
Position title: Program Coordinator and Academic Advisor, International Studies Major
Sara Donoso
Credentials: Languages: English and Spanish
Position title: Undergraduate Student in Psychology
Thomas Dubois
Credentials: Languages: English, Finnish, Swedish, and Sámi. Competence in other Nordic and European languages
Position title: Professor of Nordic Studies, Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+
Eren Fukuda
Credentials: Languages: Japanese (first language) and English (second language)
Position title: PhD Student in Psychology
José Luis Garrido Rivera
Credentials: Languages: Spanish, English, and French
Position title: PhD Student in Second Language Acquisition
Jihyo Ha
Credentials: Languages: Korean, English
Position title: Undergraduate Student in Chemical Engineering
Arjun Iyer
Credentials: Languages: English, Tamil, Hindi and Marathi
Position title: Undergraduate Student in Computer Sciences and Statistics; Certificate in Mathematics
Sourabh Kenjale
Credentials: Languages: Marathi, English, and Hindi
Position title: Undergraduate Student in Computer Sciences
Thitipong Lawphongpanich
Credentials: Languages: Thai, English
Position title: Undergraduate Student in Computer Engineering
Lena Lee
Credentials: Languages: Hmong, English
Position title: Graduate Student, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis
Brian D. McInnes / Waabishkimakwa
Credentials: Languages: Ojibwe, Potawatomi, English
Position title: Professor, Nonprofits and Philanthropy
Scott Mellor
Credentials: Languages: English and Swedish (and others)
Position title: Distinguished Teaching Faculty, Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+
Diep Nguyen
Credentials: Languages: Vietnamese, English, Spanish, and French
Position title: Director of Educator Learning, Research, and Practice, WIDA
Dan Pell
Credentials: Languages: English, French, Mandarin, (and little bit of a dozen or so others)
Position title: Teaching and Learning Consultant, Center for Teaching, Learning and Mentoring
Nilvio Alexander Punguil Bravo
Credentials: Languages: Spanish, English; a bit of French and Quechua
Position title: Graduate student, Department of Civil Society and Community Research; School of Human Ecology
Diego X Román
Credentials: Languages: Spanish and English
Position title: Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Eve Runquist
Credentials: Languages: English, Japanese, and French
Position title: Undergraduate Student in Japanese and East Asian Studies; Certificate in Environmental Studies
Jenny Saffran
Credentials: Languages: English, some French and Italian
Position title: Professor, Department of Psychology
Csanád Siklós
Credentials: Languages: (British) English, Hungarian, German, Norwegian
Position title: Associate Director, Institute for Regional and International Studies National Resource Center
Jelena Todorovic
Credentials: Languages: Serbo-Croatian, English, Italian (fluent in these three), French, Spanish, Russian, Latin, Old Occitan (reading proficiency). I also speak the local dialect of my hometown in south Serbia, Leskovac.
Position title: Associate Professor of Italian, Department of French and Italian
Haoyan (Ken) Wang
Credentials: Languages: Mandarin, English, German
Position title: Undergraduate Student in Political Science, International Studies, and Journalism; Graduate Student in Accelerated Master of International Public Affairs
Anja Wanner
Credentials: Languages: German, English, some French and Latin
Position title: Professor, Department of English
Cuixia Zhu
Credentials: Languages: Mandarin, English
Position title: Program Manager for Master of Science in Financial Economics.
Tobin Zolkowski
Credentials: Language: American Sign Language
Position title: Graduate Student in Information Sciences
Contact Lydia Odegard if you would like to be added to these profiles!
Many thanks to Kristin Dalby and Sandra Descourtis for all of their work on this page.