Dieter Gunkel

Dieter Gunkel is an Assistant Professor of Historical Linguistics in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Richmond. He holds a Ph.D. in Indo-European Linguistics from UCLA (2010), and worked as an Akademischer Rat at the University of Munich (2010–2017) before moving to Richmond. His research interests include the historical linguistics of Greek and Vedic Sanskrit, the accentuation of ancient Greek, the restoration of the Rigveda to its earliest form, and the nature of the poetic meters of Tocharian.