Janis Nuckolls

Janis Nuckolls is an American anthropological linguist and professor of linguistics and English language at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. She has spent many years doing field research, with a primary focus on the Amazonian Quichua (Kichwa) people in Ecuador and their endangered language.

Nuckolls earned her BA from the University of Wisconsin and her AM and PhD from the University of Chicago. After first visiting the Amazon in graduate school, Nuckolls has been returning for field research for more than thirty years. Provided by Wikipedia