Fellow Spotlight: Ross Perlin

Ross Perlin is co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a research institute dedicated to documenting endangered languages in New York City and beyond.

Publication 11 Sep 2025

Ross Perlin is co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance (ELA), a nonprofit research institute dedicated to documenting and supporting endangered languages in New York City and beyond, and a lecturer in linguistics at Columbia University. At the Academy, Perlin is working on his third book, “The Jesus Film: On Universal Translation, Endangered Languages, and Holy Writ in the Age of AI.”

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