Kerry Hull is a scholar of linguistics and anthropology. He earned bachelor’s degrees in Spanish and French from Utah State University, an MS in Applied Linguistics from Georgetown University, and a PhD in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin.

His academic interests include Maya linguistics and anthropology, Polynesian linguistics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and Maya epigraphic studies. Hull has conducted linguistic, ethnographic, and archaeological fieldwork in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. He has also carried out linguistic fieldwork on the Ua Pou dialect of Northern Marquesan and on the dialect spoken on Raivavae in the Austral Islands of French Polynesia.

Hull has served as a professor in Religious Education at Brigham Young University.