She is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
[1] Drinka was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at Moscow State University in 1998, and has been a visiting professor in Germany, Italy, and Japan.
Drinka was President of the International Society for Historical Linguistics from 2015 to 2017, and is Associate Editor of Folia Linguistica Historica.
Her book Language Contact in Europe (2017) was awarded the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award for 2018 by the Linguistic Society of America.
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