Judith F. Kroll
Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Linguistics, and Women's Studies
Former Director, Center for Language Science
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Judith F. Kroll is Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Women’s Studies and Director of the Center for Language Science at Pennsylvania State University. She completed her undergraduate degree at New York University and graduate degrees at Brandeis University. She held faculty positions at Swarthmore College, Rutgers University, and Mount Holyoke College before joining the Penn State faculty in 1994. The research that she and her students conduct concerns the way that bilinguals juggle the presence of two languages in one mind and brain. Their work, supported by grants from NSF and NIH, shows that bilingualism provides a tool for revealing the interplay between language and cognition that is otherwise obscure in speakers of one language alone. She is a Fellow of the AAAS, the APA, the APS, the Psychonomic Society, and the Society of Experimental Psychologists. She was one of the founding editors of the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (Cambridge University Press), and one of the founding organizers of Women in Cognitive Science, a group developed to promote the advancement of women in the cognitive sciences and supported by NSF (http://womenincogsci.org/).
Honors and Awards:
W. LaMarr Kopp International Achievement Award, Pennsylvania State University, 2009
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2012
Faculty Scholar Medal in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, 2013
Face of Penn State, 2013
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 2013-2014
