Jobs

Department alumna, Rebecca Scarborough (Ph.D. 2005), who is currently an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department at U. Colorado, Boulder, has recently been awarded tenure! Congratulations Rebecca!

UCLA alumnus, Jason Kandybowicz (Ph.D. 2007, currently at the U. of Kansas) has accepted a position in syntax at the City University of New York in New York City. Jason will be joining them in the Fall as an Associate Prof, joining other alumnus, Jason Bishop (Ph.D. 2013, CSI & CUNY Grad. Center). Congratulations Jason!

Heather Burnett (Ph.D. 2012) who is currently a post-doctoral researcher on the Syntactic Microvariation of the Romance Languages of France project within the CLLE-ERSS will be a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Sociolinguistics Lab at the University of Toronto in the Fall. Following this, in 2016, she will be taking up a permanent research scientist position…

Byron Ahn (Ph.D. 2014), who is currently a visiting assistant professor at Boston University, will be heading to Philadelphia this Fall where he will be a visiting assistant professor at Swarthmore College! Congratulations Byron!

Kie Zuraw reports on some good news: Our Ph.D. alum Andy Martin (Ph.D. 2007), currently a researcher at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute Laboratory for Language Development Research, has accepted a position as Associate Professor at Konan University in Kobe, in the Department of English Literature and Language. Andy’s new department already includes several linguists and his position will start…

Kuniko Nielsen (Ph.D. 2008) was awarded tenure at Oakland University, Michigan, over the summer! Congratulations Kuniko!