Sarah Beckham

Biography

Dr. Sarah Beckham specializes in sound systems of South Asian languages, with a research focus on contact linguistics and loanword phonology in Marathi. In addition, she is a co-founding member of the Punjabi Boliyan Research Initiative (PBRI). She serves as the Academic Director for the South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI), Executive Director for the South Asia Language Fund (SALF), and she teaches Intro to Ecolinguistics as well as domestic and study abroad courses on language in South Asia. Dr. Beckham previously served as the Hindi-Urdu Pedagogy Specialist for the South Asian Flagship Languages Initiative (SAFLI) and Project Global Officer (GO) programs at UW-Madison, and has also developed a Blended Elementary Course as a former Hindi Lecturer in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. She is currently the PI for CSA’s TVI National Resource Center (NRC), Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS), and Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language (UISFL) grants.