Paul Sidwell

Paul James Sidwell
Born	Melbourne 1963
Resting place	on the couch
Residence	Canberra
Citizenship	Australian
Nationality	Australian
Fields	Austroasiatic languages; forensic linguistics and phonetics; historical phonology
Institutions	ANU (Canberra), CRCL (Bangkok)
Alma mater	Melbourne University
Thesis	A reconstruction of Proto-Bahnaric (1998)
Doctoral advisor	Ilia Peiros
Known for	Comparative Austroasiatic studies, Editing: Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, Mon-Khmer Studies, Pacific Linguistics (2011-2014), Mon-Khmer Language Project: http://sealang.net/monkhmer/, http://sealang.net/munda/
Spouse	Saowapha Viravong
Children	Tom Sidwell

Paul Sidwell is an independent Canberra based researcher and consultant in linguistics, specializing in Southeast Asian languages and language history, forensic linguistics, and applied research for security and law-enforcement (via his business Language Intelligence email language.intel@gmail.com). 2013 to 2016 Sidwell was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Australian National University (College of Asia and the Pacific). Sidwell is a leading specialist in Austroasiatic linguistics, especially the Katuic and Bahnaric branches. His most recent significant contribution was to edit (with Mathias Jenny) the Brill Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages.

In 2015 Sidwell was elected President of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. He serves as Editor of JSEALS (the Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society), and as an editor of Mon-Khmer Studies, and is the Series Editor for Brill monographs Grammars and Sketches of Languages of Mainland and Insular SEAsia. 2011-2014 he served as Managing Editor for Pacific Linguistics (ANU/DeGruyterMouton).

On May 28, 2015, Sidwell was elected President of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society.

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