Craig Melchert

Harold Craig Melchert (born April 5, 1945) is an American linguist known particularly for his work on the Anatolian branch of Indo-European.From 1968 to 1972 he served in the United States Air Force, where he learned Chinese and worked as a Chinese radio listener.[citation needed] In 1978 he accepted a position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he became Paul Debreczeny Distinguished Professor of Linguistics.[1] In 2005 he was the Collitz Professor at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute.[2] As of July 1, 2007 he is A. Richard Diebold Professor of Indo-European Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Michigan State UniversityHarvard UniversityUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillUniversity of California, Los AngelesAnatolianIndo-EuropeanChineseLinguistic Society of America