John Huehnergard (born March 16, 1952) is a Canadian-American specialist in Semitic languages, notable for his work on categorization, etymology, and historical linguistics.
In 2019 he co-edited The Semitic Languages,[2] and wrote the chapter on Proto-Semitic, summarizing a lifetime of research on the topic.
He is known to an entirely different audience as one of the authors of Henry David Thoreau: Speaking for Nature,[3] and in the same vein an article on the "Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle".
[4] Huehnergard was a fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies in 2002 and held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005–2006.
He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Chicago in 2014[5] and the Edward Ullendorff Medal from the British Academy in 2018.