Category: faculty

  • UChicago at LSA 2016

    The program for the 2016 LSA annual meeting is out and it looks like UChicago will have another strong showing at the upcoming annual meeting! The list of presentations is given below (presentation info for the meetings of the sister societies and other symposiums are not  yet available). “Decomposing complex relations between phonological maps” by…

  • Congratulations Alan!

    Congratulations to Alan Yu who has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor, in recognition of his achievements as a scholar and teacher.

  • Assistant Professors featured in Tableau Magazine

    Assistant professors Greg Kobele, Itamar Francez, Yaroslav Gorbachov, and Ming Xiang bring modern touches to linguistics’ traditional focus.  Please visit http://tableau.uchicago.edu/articles/2015/04/native-knowledge to read the article “Native Knowledge” in Tableau magazine.

  • Kennedy won teaching award

    A big congratulations to our beloved chair, Chris Kennedy, who has been selected as a winner of the Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring. The award will be presented to Chris at the Spring Quarter Convocation on Saturday, June 13, 2015, during the Humanities Division’s diploma and hooding ceremony. Congratulations, Chris! Well-deserved!  

  • Article: Why does Africa have so many languages?

    Check out this new Christian Science Monitor article, “Why does Africa have so many languages?”.  Our own Professor Salikoko Mufwene was interviewed to provide his expertise on the matter. http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/Science-Notebook/2015/0421/Why-does-Africa-have-so-many-languages