Congratulations to our BA alumnus Eric Morley, for the recent publication by LINCOM Europa of his Grammar of Ajagbe, which he wrote on the basis of fieldwork that he conducted from 2007-2009 as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Klouekanme, Benin. More details about the book are available on LinguistList, and you can find out more about Ajagbe on Ethnologue.
Category Archives: alumni
Congratulations to Kjersti and Alex
Recent alumna Kjersti Stensrud and her husband Alex Boccio have announced the birth of their daughter Hannah on November 4th in Oslo, Norway. Congratulations!
Alumni baby
Job news: Yoon and Kirby
In addition to James Kirby, who will be heading to Scotland in December to assume the position of Lecturer in Phonetics at the University of Edinburgh, we would also like to warmly congratulate Suwon Yoon, who has been offered a Visiting Assistant Professorship at Cornell!
Job news: Osamu Sawada
We’re very proud of recent PhD Osamu Sawada (2010), who has accepted a permanent position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Faculty of Humanities, Law and Economics at Mie University, one of the national universities in Japan. He will begin teaching Intro to Linguistics and a course on meaning and communication in October. All the best, Dr. Sawada!
Job news: Debenport and Paz
Two recent alumni have recently been offered jobs for the upcoming academic year…
… Erin Debenport (Linguistics ’09), who has accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico,
and Alejandro Paz (Linguistics and Anthropology ’09), who has been appointed Assistant Professor in Linguistics at the University of Toronto!
Congratulations, Erin and Alejandro!