Leah Cathryn Windsor

Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics

The University of Memphis

Leah Windsor directs the Languages Across Cultures and Languages Across Modalities labs at the Institute for Intelligent Systems. She received her bachelor of science in linguistics from Georgetown University in 1998, her master’s degree in political science at the University of Memphis in 2005, and her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Mississippi in 2012. Her interdisciplinary approach to understanding political language is situated at the intersection of political science, linguistics, and cognitive science. Having grown up on a family farm, she has a strong background in agriculture and research interests in the role of small farms in the global economy. She serves on the editorial board of International Studies Quarterly and International Studies Perspectives. She also published a book on bias in family formation in academia, The PhD Parenthood Trap: Caught Between Work and Family in Academia (with Dr. Kerry Crawford) in August 2021. She is a 2020-2023 Non-Resident Fellow for the Krulak Center in the Marine Corps University.