Goodbyes and hellos for 2020-21

The 2020-21 year approaches! We bid farewell to our students completing their MAs in our department; to Erin Hall (Ph.D. 2020), taking up a tenure-track position in linguistics and speech pathology at California State University, San Bernardino; and to Naomi Francis (MA 2014; recent faculty), beginning a postdoc in semantics at the University of Oslo. Also, best of luck to Susana Béjar as she begins a semester of research leave.

Welcome and/or welcome back to:

• Curt Anderson (faculty), a semanticist beginning a contract faculty position at UTSC.
• Tahohtharátye William Joseph Brant (faculty), who will be beginning a joint teaching-stream position in the Department of Linguistics and the Centre for Indigenous Studies starting next summer.
• Emily Clare (postdoc; Ph.D. 2019), beginning a postdoctoral fellowship with Jessamyn Schertz (faculty) at UTM.
• Ewan Dunbar (faculty; MA 2008, BA 2007), beginning a tenure-track position in the Department of French as an Assistant Professor with a focus on computational linguistics.
• Myrto Grigoroglou (faculty), completing a postdoctoral fellowship in the Language and Learning Lab at OISE and joining the Department of Linguistics as a tenure-track faculty member in language acquisition and psycholinguistics.
• Qandeel Hussain (postdoc), joining us as an Arts and Science Postdoctoral Fellow associated with the Phonetics Lab, working on sociophonetic variation in the speech of South Asian communities in the Toronto area.
• Samantha Jackson (postdoc), beginning a U of T Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowship and working with Derek Denis at UTM.
• Dave Kush (faculty), beginning a tenure-track position at UTSC in psycholinguistics starting in 2021.
• Avery Ozburn (faculty; MA 2014), completing a postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University and joining UTM as a tenure-track faculty member in phonology.
• Pedro Mateo Pedro (faculty), beginning a teaching-stream position in Indigenous languages and revitalization.
• Ai Taniguchi (faculty), beginning a teaching-stream position in semantics at UTM.
• Deem Waham (staff), returning from leave.

We also have 16 new graduate students: 11 in the MA program and 5 in the Ph.D. Welcome, all!