Elena Bashir is an American linguist and senior lecturer in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations of the Humanities Division of the University of Chicago.
Bashir received her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1988.
Her dissertation was titled "Topics in Kalasha Syntax: An areal and typological perspective".
She wrote her thesis and a number of related articles on the Kalasha language.
Her analyses of Kalasha grammar, based on texts and her own fieldwork, have included discussion of the typological and genetic relationships of Kalasha to Khowar and broader Indo-Aryan and Iranian languages.