Leah C. Windsor

Dr. Leah Windsor is an Associate Professor in the Applied Linguistics group in the Department of English and the Institute for Intelligent Systems at The University of Memphis. She directs the Languages Across Cultures and Languages Across Modalities labs and is PI on an NSF grant studying multimodal signals in world leaders’ speeches. Her interdisciplinary approach to understanding political language is situated at the intersection of political science, linguistics, and cognitive science. Her book on bias in family formation in academia, The PhD Parenthood Trap: Caught Between Work and Family in Academia (with Dr. Kerry Crawford) was published in October 2021 by Georgetown University Press. She is a 2020-2021 Non-Resident Fellow for the Krulak Center in the Marine Corps University.