Thomas Smith

Assistant Academic Coordinator

Thomas Flanagan Smith is an early-career linguist with experience in the languages of the Indo-Myanmar border regions. He has been involved with the Chin diaspora community in Indianapolis, USA, for several years, also leading research at the Burmese American Community Institute and helping produce educational materials for several South-Central Tibeto-Burman languages at the Chin Languages Research Project.

He is a recent graduate of the B.A. programs in both Linguistics and India Studies at Indiana University, where he conducted original research on Lutuv, an under-documented Chin language of Myanmar, and was on two National Science Foundation-funded teams working on Tibeto-Burman languages of Northeast India. Thomas joined the CCLD in 2024.