[INDOLOGY] Franklin C. Southworth (1929-2025)

[Deven Patel]

Dear Colleagues:

It is with sadness that we report the passing of Franklin C. Southworth,
Professor Emeritus in the Department of South Asia Regional Studies at the
University of Pennsylvania. Franklin Southworth was a leading historical
linguist of South Asia. Over the course of his distinguished career,
Professor Southworth made foundational contributions to our understanding
of the Dravidian and Indo-Aryan language families, their interactions, and
the ways in which linguistic evidence can illuminate the prehistory of the
subcontinent. His last academic contributions include an article entitled
“Rice and Language Across Asia: Crops, Movement, and Social Change” (2011)
and the Routledge volume *Linguistic Archaeology of South Asia* (2005),
which synthesized decades of research into a landmark study of language
contact, migration, and cultural exchange.  Trained in linguistics and
anthropology, Professor Southworth spent much of his academic life at Penn,
where he taught and mentored generations of students in South Asian
linguistics, anthropology, and area studies.

Professor Southworth's webpage gives a longer list of his intellectual
contributions: https://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~fsouth/

Warmly,

Deven

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Deven M. Patel
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