Paul Sidwell

Paul Sidwell is an Australian researcher and consultant in linguistics, specializing in Southeast Asian language history, forensic linguistics, and applied research for security and law-enforcement.

Until 2016 he was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Australian National University (College of Asia and the Pacific), Canberra, Australia. His research and publishing activity extends from Austroasiatic languages to insular Southeast Asia. His most recent significant contributions are major handbooks (co-edited with Mathias Jenny) the Brill Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages and de Gruyter The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia: A comprehensive guide.