Speakers - 2027

Biography

Kerry Michael Hull is a Professor in the Department of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University (BYU), United States. He earned bachelor's degrees in Spanish and French from Utah State University, an M.S. in Applied Linguistics from Georgetown University, and a Ph.D. in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. His academic interests include Maya linguistics and anthropology, ethnobotany, Polynesian linguistics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and Maya epigraphic studies. He has conducted extensive linguistic, ethnographic, and archaeological fieldwork across Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Polynesia. He is also the author of A Dictionary of Ch’orti’ Mayan and numerous peer-reviewed publications.