Viorica Marian, Ph.D.

Dr. Viorica Marian is the Sundin Endowed Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders and of Psychology at Northwestern University. Since 2000, she directs the Bilingualism and Psycholinguistics Research Laboratory, with funding from the National Institutes of Health. Marian received her PhD in Psychology from Cornell University and Master’s degrees from Emory University and Cornell University. She previously served as Department Chair and as Chair of the NIH Study Section on Language and Communication, and is a recipient of the University of Alaska Alumni of Achievement Award, the Clarence Simon Award for Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring, and the Editor’s Award for best paper from the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Marian studies the cognitive, neural, and linguistic consequences of bilingualism and multilingualism. She is the author of the 2023 book “The Power of Language,” currently being translated into a dozen languages.