Dr Steve Watters

Dr Steve Watters

Adjunct Research Fellow

Stephen Watters is a Research Director for SIL International, and has served as a linguist and translator in the Himalayan region. He also has an adjunct faculty position with the linguistics program at Baylor University, and is a Fellow at the Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University.

He holds an MA in linguistics from the University of Texas at Arlington and a PhD in linguistics from Rice University. He has done fieldwork throughout South Asia and the Himalaya with interest in many aspects of linguistics, sociolinguistics, and translation.

One of his long term interests is the study of the intersection of human flourishing and language vitality.