Outsized influence
MIT Philosophy has extraordinary success placing PhD graduates in top tenure-track positions.
Department
Linguistics and Philosophy
Q&A: Michel DeGraff on teaching STEM in Kreyòl
A model for reaching science-hungry students around the world who speak local languages
DeGraff awarded $1 million NSF grant to continue linguistics research in Haiti
Funding will help develop classroom tools to teach science and math in Creole for the first time.
The complexities of cognitive comparisons
In experiments, linguists examine how we make everyday judgments about groups of objects.
A champion of Creole
Linguist Michel DeGraff is on a quest to give Haitian Creole its due as a respected language — and to help Haitian schoolchildren learn in their native tongue.