Dr. Leah C. Windsor

Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics

Institute for Intelligent Systems & Department of English

Faculty Affiliate, Department of Political Science

Faculty Affiliate, CAESER

The University of Memphis

Dr. Leah Windsor is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Institute for Intelligent Systems and Department of English at The University of Memphis. She also has Faculty Affiliate status with CAESER (Center for Applied Earth Science and Engineering Research) and in the Department of Political Science. She directs the Languages Across Cultures Lab and is PI on an NSF grant studying multimodal signals in world leaders’ speeches. Her research broadly examines how what we say reveals who we are. Dr. Windsor received her Bachelor of Science in Linguistics degree from Georgetown University in 1998, her Master’s degree in Political Science at The University of Memphis in 2005, and her Ph.D. in Political Science from The University of Mississippi in 2012. From 2014-2019, Dr. Windsor served as PI for a DoD Minerva Initiative grant that examined political communication in authoritarian regimes and opaque political groups. She is currently PI on a National Science Foundation grant examining embodied cognition and multimodal communication for international relations research (#2117009). Her book on bias in family formation in academia, The PhD Parenthood Trap: Gender, Bias, and the Elusive Work-Family Balance in Academia (with Dr. Kerry Crawford) is available from Georgetown University Press. She was a 2020-2023 Non-Resident Fellow for the Krulak Center in the Marine Corps University, and serves on several elected committees in the International Studies Association. She is a fourth generation farmer.