Monica Macaulay (born 1955) is a professor of linguistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she is also affiliated with the American Indian Studies Program.
She relocated shortly after to northern California and pursued art school before enrolling at UC Berkeley.
[3] Macaulay received her PhD in 1987 for her research on morphology and cliticization in Chalcatongo Mixtec at the University of California, Berkeley.
She has published a number of linguistic studies on, especially, the syntax and semantics of Mixtec, Karuk and Algonquian.
[10] Macaulay is currently the president of the Endangered Language Fund,[11] as well as the co-editor of the Papers of the Algonquian Conference.