Calvert Watkins

Calvert Watkins
Born	(1933-03-13)March 13, 1933 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Died	March 20, 2013(2013-03-20) (aged 80) Los Angeles, California, United States
Title	Victor S. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and Classics
Spouses	Jane Williams Cushman (married 1961) Stephanie Jamison (married 1980)
Children	Cynthia Watkins, David Cushman, Catherine Cushman, and Nicholas Watkins
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship Goodwin Award
Academic background
Education	Harvard University (BA, 1954; PhD, 1959)
Thesis	Indo-European origins of the Celtic verb (1962)
Academic work
Discipline	Linguist
Sub-discipline	Historical linguistics
Notable students	Joshua Katz
Notable works	How to Kill a Dragon

Calvert Watkins (/ˈwɒtkɪnz/; March 13, 1933 – March 20, 2013) was an American linguist and philologist, known for his book How to Kill a Dragon. He was a professor of linguistics and the classics at Harvard University and after retirement went to serve as professor-in-residence at UCLA.^[1]