{"id":3835,"date":"2025-09-14T22:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T22:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/?p=3835"},"modified":"2025-09-14T22:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T22:35:19","slug":"professor-adam-mccollum-interviewed-by-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/professor-adam-mccollum-interviewed-by-forbes\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Adam McCollum Interviewed by Forbes?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you read that title correctly! <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Professor Adam McCollum was recently interviewed by <em>Forbes Kazakhstan<\/em> about his research on Kazakh and Uyghur languages and his deepening ties to the region. In the interview, he reflects on language change, cultural identity, and what drew him to study Turkic languages in the first place. The conversation offers a unique look at how linguistic research connects with personal experience and cross-cultural understanding. I encourage you to watch the interview on YouTube at this <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uVZUKRhfh00\">link<\/a>!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3836 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-13-135740-300x192.png\" alt=\"Screenshot from the interview on YouTube.\" width=\"384\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-13-135740-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-13-135740-768x492.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-13-135740.png 872w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you read that title correctly! Professor Adam McCollum was recently interviewed by Forbes Kazakhstan about his research on Kazakh and Uyghur languages and his deepening ties to the region. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/professor-adam-mccollum-interviewed-by-forbes\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Professor Adam McCollum Interviewed by Forbes?! - Linguistics Graduate Students Association<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/professor-adam-mccollum-interviewed-by-forbes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Professor Adam McCollum Interviewed by Forbes?! - Linguistics Graduate Students Association\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yes, you read that title correctly! 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