Jobs for our (current and former) graduate
students
Jason
Kandybowicz has accepted a position of Assistant Professor in the Department
of Linguistics at
Swarthmore College.
Rebecca Scarborough
has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics
at the University of Colorado; she'll start 2007 after finishing her current
postdoc at Stanford.
Our Ph.D.
Matt
Pearson has been hired into a tenure track position at Reed College.
Our Ph.D. Ivano Caponigro has just accepted a tenure track appointment
at UC San Diego. This fall,
Brook
Lillehaugen will be taking up a new position at the Center for Indigenous
Languages (Seminario de Lenguas Indígenas) at the Autonomous University
of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City.
Abigail
Kaun (Ph.D. 1995) has been promoted to Associate Dean of Graduate Programs
at USC.
Christina
Esposito has accepted a one-year position at Macalester College, replacing
Sarah Dart (UCLA Ph.D. 1991), who has just retired.
Congratulations to all!
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New Faculty
In a busy and important recruiting season, the Department acquired two new
faculty.
Megha
Sundara (Ph.D. McGill 2005) has been hired as an Assistant Professor.
Megha is a specialist in speech perception and infant language learning.
She will arrive in Spring 2007, after finishing her postdoctoral work
at the University of Washington. We are looking forward to Megha's
joining the faculty!
Katrina
Daly Thompson (Ph.D. UW-Madison, 2004), who joined the department as
a visiting lecturer in Fall 2005, has been hired as Professor in Residence,
beginning in Fall 2006. Katrina will continue to teach all levels of Swahili
language and also serve as African Languages Coordinator. Katrina is a specialist
in African languages and verbal arts, language pedagogy and instructional
technology.
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Stowell dean, Mahajan chair
| UCLA has selected our own department chair,
Tim
Stowell, as the new
Dean of Humanities.
We look forward to friendly decanal relations, encouraging Tim to go ahead
and be really biased ...
Moving into Tim's old position as chair will be
Prof.
Anoop Mahajan.
We wish both of them our best as they shoulder their new responsibilities. |
Tim Stowell at the annual Linguistics 5K Run/Walk/Party, June
2006 |
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| Peter Ladefoged (1925-2006)
The Department mourned the loss of our dear colleague Peter Ladefoged
(1925-2006), who died suddenly in January, ending a long and very
distinguished career. For remembrances of Peter from many who
knew him, visit the web page
Remembering
Peter Ladefoged. |
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Sun-Ah Jun honored by her alma mater
Prof. Sun-Ah
Jun was chosen as a Distinguished Alumna by her undergraduate institution,
Chonnam National University. She visited Chonnam on June 21, 2006 to receive
the award, deliver an address, and give press interviews. If you know
Korean you can read the interview by following
this
link (archive of the Chonnam National University News).
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Conference: "The Hungarian Language:
Past and Present"
In collaboration with Slavic Languages, our department held a conference
on May 5-6 entitled "The Hungarian Language: Past and Present." The
invited speakers were Marcel den Dikken, Donka Farkas and Laszlo Hunyadi.
For a record of the conference, visit its web site at
http://kracht.humnet.ucla.edu/hun06
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| Another NSF grant for Russ Schuh
Prof. Russ Schuh
received a three-year $125,000 grant from the National Science Foundation
to continue work begun with two previous NSF grants, starting in 1999. His
first field trip back to Nigeria will be in summer 2007. Russ will be working
with UCLA alumnus Alhaji Maina Gimba, Chair of the English Department at
the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria and the In-Country Director of the project. |
Prof. Schuh playing the bagpipes in the
UCLA
Balkan Band. He plays with Prof. Tim Rice, Chair of
Ethnomusicology |
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Dept. of Education Grant for Tom
Hinnebusch
| Tom Hinnebusch retired last year from active teaching in our department,
but has remained very busy on campus. During AY 2005/06 he continued as Associate
Director of the James S. Coleman
African Studies Center at UCLA. He is currently Director of the
Language Materials
Project, an online annotated database of pedagogical materials and authentic
materials for the learning and teaching of 140 less commonly taught languages.
The Language Materials Project is housed within UCLA's Center for World Languages
and has been funded with grants from the US Department of Education.
Recently the project was awarded a new three-year grant from the US Dept.
of Education for the amount of $527,000 to run through 2009.
Tom also continues to work on his dictionary and textbase of Swahili poetry
and online teaching materials for Akan-Twi. |
Tom Hinnebusch |
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Campbell Hall remodel
Our building,
Campbell
Hall, has been quite noisy with remodeling. We look forward to
completion, at which time our department home will be improved with seismic
safety upgrades, sprinklers for fire safety, and air conditioning.
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Friends of Linguistics meeting
In January, our support organization the Friends of Linguistics, heard a
stunning presentation by Prof.
Susan
Curtiss of her work with Genie, the subject of her famous book Genie:
Psycholinguistic Study of a Modern-day "Wild Child" (1977; Academic Press).
The presentation included many images and video clips, and celebrates
the beginning of work on a scholarly archive about Genie.
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