Curriculum vitae [pdf]
Panopticon, courtesy of Club Inferno, Gwen Stefani, and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 2016
portrait from life, by Lydia Fleisher, 2016
Forum Lecture, Linguistic Institute, Bastille Day 2015
with Darya Kavitskaya and Alice Shen, 2016
Contact information
Visit me:
- Office: 1218 Dwinelle Hall
- Office hour: W Th 11-12 (Lx 115), M 1-2 (Lx 251), or by appointment
Write to me:
- Department of
Linguistics
1203 Dwinelle Hall #2650
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-2650 - Email:
- Fax: 510-643-5688
Education and employment
University of California, Berkeley
- Nadine M. Tang and Bruce L. Smith Professor of Cross-Cultural Social Sciences (2011–)
- Professor of Linguistics (2007–)
- Associate Professor of Linguistics (1999-2007)
- Assistant Professor of Linguistics (1995-1999)
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University of Texas at Austin
- Assistant Professor of Linguistics (1990-1995)
Harvard University
- Ph.D. in Linguistics (1990)
Dissertation: The syntax of Anatolian pronominal clitics [Mark Hale, Craig Melchert, Calvert Watkins] - A.M. in Linguistics (1986)
Harvard College
- A.B. (Folklore and Mythology, 1984)
Awards and honors
Kenneth L. Hale Award, Linguistic Society of America (2023)
Best Paper in Language Award, Linguistic Society of America (2015, with Will Chang, Chundra Cathcart, and David Hall)
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Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (2009)
Distinguished Teaching Award, UC Berkeley (2007)
Division of Social Sciences Distinguished Service Award, UC Berkeley (2002-2003)
Division of Social Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award, UC Berkeley (1999-2000)
Fellowships and grants
Principal Investigator, "Archiving legacy documentation from southern California and the southwest: Toward a new collaborative model", funded by the NEH (2020-2023)
Principal Investigator (with Ira Jacknis and Erik Mitchell), "Linguistic and ethnographic sound recordings from early twentieth-century California: Optical scanning, digitization, and access", funded by the NEH and NSF (2015-2018)
Principal Investigator (with Line Mikkelsen), "Karuk [kyh] and Yurok [yur] Syntax and Text Documentation", funded by the NSF (2011-2014)
Humanities Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley (2010-2011)
Principal Investigator, "Berkeley Indigenous Language Resources: Access, Archiving, and Documentation", funded by the NEH-NSF Documenting Endangered Languages program (2007-2010)
Humanities Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley (2004-2005)
Principal Investigator (with Juliette Blevins), "The Yurok Language: Description and Revitalization", funded by the NSF (2001-2004)
NEH Fellowship for University Teachers (1994-1995)
Visiting teaching positions
Yurok Language Institute, Yurok Tribe (2007-2018)
Linguistic Institute, University of Chicago (2015)
Linguistic Institute, University of Michigan (2013)
Linguistic Institute, UC Berkeley (2009)
Linguistic Institute, Harvard / MIT (2005)
Department of Classics, Stanford University (2004)
Linguistic Institute, Cornell University (1997)
Department of Linguistics, Stanford University (1991-1992)
Languages
Primary philological–historical research: English, Greek, Hittite, Karuk, Latin, Luvian, Lycian, Old Irish (Ogam), Rumsen (Ohlone), Yurok
In situ fieldwork experience: Karuk, Northern Paiute, Northern Sierra Miwok, Yurok
Consulting work: Hupa, Karuk, Yurok
Administrative and professional service
Director, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, UC Berkeley (2007–)
Parliamentarian, Berkeley Division, Academic Senate (2013–)
Chair, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley (2013-18)
Elected member, Executive Committee, Linguistic Society of America (2011-2014)
Director, 2009 Linguistic Institute