Andrew Cowell is Chair of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder.
His research focuses on indigenous languages, especially Native American languages. In addition to language documentation, he is interested in language endangerment, maintenance and revitalization among Native communities, and in connections between language and culture. He has worked especially with Algonquian languages (Arapaho, Gros Ventre, Cheyenne), and also in Polynesia.