Michal Temkin Martinez

Michal Temkin Martinez is a linguist who has worked on Chizigula and Modern Hebrew. Temkin Martinez received her PhD from University of Southern California in 2004. She is currently an associate professor at Boise State University and is the founding director of the Mary Ellen Ryder Linguistics Lab. Her current research focuses on languages spoken in by refugee communities and integrating experimental methodology with language documentation.

She is also involved in Languages of Boise, a web application that focuses on improving communication between refugees and service providers in Boise, Idaho. It was also the first attempt to create a Chizigula-English dictionary. She also worked on the Languages of Boise Project, focused on the languages spoken at the Boise refugee camp.[1]

Temkin Martinez is a current editor of the Teaching Linguistics section of Language, the Linguistic Society of America's journal. Temkin Martinez is the Junior Chair of the Committee of Endangered Language and their Preservation (CELP).