Kathleen Ward

Kathleen Ward was born in Boston, July 15, 1952. She was sent to a catholic boarding school where the nuns taught her French and cooking. She received her Ph.D, from the University of Wisconsin in 1974 in Linguistics and English Literature. She worked on the dictionary of American Speech. 

She came to Davis in 1980 and worked in both the departments of Linguistics and Engineering. She taught several courses in the Linguistics department including LIN 1, LIN 180, and some ESL.  She passed away in May 2022.