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The Department of Linguistics2021 PhD alum Maura O’Leary, currently of Swarthmore College, has just accepted a tenure-track offer in the Western Washington University Linguistics Department. Dr. O’Leary works on the syntax/semantics interface, especially…
Read MoreUCLA Alum Natasha Abner in Science and Popular Science on the use of computational phylogenetics to understand sign language origins! You can read the original research here and the article in Popular Science here.
Read MoreAlum Laura Kalin (PhD 2014) is the recipient of the 2024 Early Career Award from the Linguistic Society of America, in recognition of her “exceptional record of service, research, teaching,…
Read MoreLaura Kalin (PhD 2014) has recently been awarded tenure at Princeton University! Congratulations, Laura!
Read MoreCongratulations to Beth Sturman who filed her dissertation in September 2022 and started a position as a Growth Strategist at thrv.com, a market research firm. She says she does qualitative…
Read MoreRecent Ph.D. Travis Major has accepted a tenure track position in Syntax at USC! Travis is currently a postdoc at USC and we look forward to having him nearby.
Read MoreCongratulations to Adam Royer for his position as a qualitative and quantitative researcher at thrv, a market research firm, designing surveys and conducting interviews to help businesses identify new markets…
Read MoreCongratulations to Brice Roberts for his position as a text-to-speech Linguist for German, with Accenture.
Read MoreCongratulations to Jesse Zymet! After a training fellowship at Insight Data Science, Jesse is now a Principle Data Scientist at Capital One in New York.
Read MoreCongratulations to Deborah Wong, who defended her dissertation in fall 2020, and will soon be taking up a position as a data scientist at Spectrum Labs, a start-up based in…
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