Victor Golla

Victor Golla (born 1939) is a linguist and a leading expert on the indigenous languages of California and Oregon, especially the Pacific Coast Athabaskan subgroup of the Athabaskan language family and the languages of the region that belong to the Penutian phylum. He is currently a semi-retired professor of anthropology at Humboldt State University and lives in Trinidad, California.

Golla grew up in the small town of Mt. Shasta, in the far north of California, where his father was a funeral director and deputy coroner of Siskiyou County. The family moved to the San Francisco Bay area in 1952 and he attended high school in Oakland. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 1960 and received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the same institution in 1970.

Golla taught briefly at the University of Alberta (assistant professor of linguistics, 1966-1967) and Columbia University (instructor in anthropology, 1967–1968), and then settled in Washington, D.C. for two decades, teaching in the anthropology department at George Washington University (1968-1988) and conducting research on the extensive archival documentation of American Indian languages that is housed in the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution. In 1988, he was invited to join the faculty of Humboldt State University, in Arcata, California, as professor of Native American Studies and director of the Center for Indian Community Development.

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