August 27, 2018

Goodbyes and hellos for 2018-19

As the new academic year begins, we bid farewell to:
  • Clarissa Forbes (Ph.D.), who will be departing to take up a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Arizona very shortly after her dissertation defence.
  • Matt Hunt Gardner (Ph.D. 2017), beginning a contract faculty position at St. Mary's University in Halifax.
  • Phil Howson (Ph.D. 2018), starting a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oregon.
  • ...and all those currently completing the MA program.
And we welcome (and/or welcome back):
  • Barend Beekhuizen (faculty), most recently a postdoc in the Department of Computer Science, joining the Department of Language Studies at UTM as an Assistant Professor (tenure-track).
  • Gitanna Brito Bezerra (postdoc), here working with Suzi Lima.
  • Marisa Brook (faculty) (MA 2011, Ph.D. 2016), beginning a contract-limited term appointment as an Assistant Professor of sociolinguistics.
  • Karlien Franco (postdoc), working with Sali A. Tagliamonte.
  • Zhanao Fu (University of Delaware), a visiting student working with Phil Monahan.
  • Alessandro Jaker (postdoc), here working with Keren Rice.
  • Alexandra Lowles ( Goethe University Frankfurt), a Ph.D. student visiting to work with Ana-Teresa PĂ©rez-Leroux.
  • Safieh Moghaddam (faculty) (Ph.D. 2016), joining the Centre for French and Linguistics at UTSC as an Assistant Professor (teaching steam).
  • Keir Moulton (faculty) (BA 2001, MA 2002), taking up an appointment as a tenure-track Assistant Professor, focusing on syntax/semantics/psycholinguistics.
  • Aleksei Nazarov (faculty), beginning a contract-limited term appointment as an Assistant Professor of phonology.
  • Miriam Neuhausen (University of Freiburg), a visiting graduate student studying heritage German speakers near Kitchener-Waterloo and working with Sali.
  • ...and 15 students beginning graduate programs in the Department of Linguistics: six in the Ph.D. program and 9 MAs.

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