Initiative for Multilingual Studies

Welcome to the Initiative for Multilingual Studies at Georgetown University

The Initiative for Multilingual Studies (IMS) is committed to advancing knowledge in various domains of multilingualism through interdisciplinary empirical research.

It supports its members in the design, funding, conduct, and communication of research about

• the benefits of multilingualism in neurocognitive, academic, economic, personal, social, and geopolitical domains
• the misunderstanding and mismanagement of multilingualism, particularly in vulnerable communities, such as immigrants, Indigenous peoples, regional minorities, and marginalized groups such as Deaf and LGBTQI+ communities

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Five doctoral students presented their research in South Africa in December 2022 with funding from the IMS

January 25th, 2023

IMS faculty Lourdes Ortega and Anna De Fina traveled with five doctoral students to Cape Town in December, 2022, for the invitational conference that closed the 4-year INTPART grant with…

IMS community members, Nishita Grace Isaac (Ph.D. student) and Crissa Stephens (Faculty), presented their research at HaBilNet2 in Frankfurt, Germany  

November 16th, 2022

Two IMS community members, Nishita Grace Isaac (Ph.D. student, Department of Linguistics) and Crissa Stephens (Faculty,  Educational Transformation Program), presented their research at…

IMS talk: “Transnational migration and multilingual families in the 21st century: Policies and practices” by Elizabeth Lanza

November 11th, 2022

Elizabeth Lanza, Professor Emerita of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo, Norway, and Founder and Past Director of the Center for…