Virginia Valian

Virginia Valian is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Hunter College and a member of the doctoral faculties of Psychology, Linguistics, and Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center. She directs Hunter College’s Language Acquisition Research Center and co-founded its Gender Equity Project, which has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

Valian is the author of Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women and coauthor, with Abigail Stewart, of An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence. Her research and publications address language acquisition, psycholinguistics, bilingualism, gender equity, and disparities in academic institutions.