Our alumna Kathryn Davidson has just accepted a tenure track position in semantics in the linguistics department at Harvard University. She accepted this position after declining a tenure track position in (ASL) child language acquisition in the linguistics department at the University of Washington as well as a 5-year postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive science at Yale University. Please join us in sending Kate our warmest congratulations on her outstanding achievements. – Ivano & Rachel
Category Archives: Alumni
Congratulations, Boyoung Kim!
Boyoung Kim has accepted a Visiting Assistant Professor position in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Iowa.
Congratulations, Leslie Lee!
Leslie Lee (PhD 2013) has accepted a Lecturer position in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore.
Lara Hochstein successfully defends dissertation
Lara Hochstein successfully defended her dissertation, Epistemic reasoning and implicature computation in typically-developing children and individuals with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. Lara is now a Language Arts Product Analyst at IXL Learning.
Congratulations, Ivano Caponigro!
Ivano Caponigro has received a Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University for 2014-2015 and a Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for 2015.
Kathryn Davidson to Yale University
Congratulations to former graduate student Kathryn Davidson who just started in her new position as a postdoctoral associate in Cognitive Science at Yale University.
UCSD in Language
The September 2013 issue of Language contains four papers by current and former UCSD students and faculty. Featured authors are Laura Kertz, Farrell Ackerman & Rob Malouf, Raúl Aranovich, and Nayoung Kwon, Robert Kluender, Marta Kutas & Maria Polinsky. Check it out: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/language/toc/lan.89.3.html.
Klinton Bicknell to Northwestern
Klinton Bicknell (PhD 2011) has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Linguistics at Northwestern University beginning March 2014. Before he gets settled in Chicago, he’ll be a Center for Language Sciences postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester (June 2013 – March 2014). Congratulations, Klinton!