‘It’s a personal cause for us’ – McMaster linguistics research centre creates program for displaced scholars

Ukrainian linguistics doctoral student Olga Dvorova is an expert on Crimean Tatar, an indigenous language of Crimea. At the end of February, soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, Dvorova learned about an opportunity for visiting researchers at McMaster’s Centre for Advanced Research in Experimental and Applied Linguistics, or ARiEAL. She contacted McMaster linguistics professor Victor Kuperman to learn more, then joined the exodus from Kyiv to Poland, where her aunt lives.

About six weeks later, Dvorova arrived in Canada, the first visiting researcher to participate in a pilot program created by ARiEAL director and linguistics professor Ivona Ku?erová and the centre’s former manager, Chia-Yu Lin.

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