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Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077

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New Position

The Linguistics Department at UCSC will be searching in 2008—2009 to fill a tenured or tenure-track faculty position. This recruitment marks another step in the process of renewal and growth which the department is currently engaged in.

We will be hiring either in the area of experimental phonetics or in the area of formal syntax. We are looking for someone who will complement existing strengths in the department but who will also add to those strengths in new and substantive ways. The position can be filled at any level up to mid-Associate Professor (with tenure).

More information about the position and details about the application process are available here.

Alumni Conference
On Friday September 12th and Saturday September 13th 2008, the department will host its first ever Graduate Alumni Conference, designed to celebrate the achievements of the graduate program and the achievements of its alumnae and alumni. The conference is sponsored by the Linguistics Research Center and w... [More]

Undergraduate Research Conference
LURC (the Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference) is the department's annual celebration of undergraduate research. It takes the form of a conference at which undergraduates present their ongoing research projects to an audience of faculty, graduate students, visitors, and undergraduate students. Tradition has it that a distingu... [More]

Grant McGuire Accepts Position at UCSC
We are very happy to announce that Grant McGuire has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor with the department for 2008-09. Grant is a phonetician who trained at OSU with Keith Johnson and Mary Beckman, and who now holds a postdoctoral research position at UC Berkeley. His r... [More]

Brasoveanu and Wagers to come to UCSC
We are very pleased to announce that Adrian Brasoveanu and Matt Wagers have both accepted faculty positions at UCSC. [More]

TREND 2008
The Department hosted TREND 2008 on Saturday May 10. TREND is an annual workshop at which graduate students and faculty in linguistics at Berkeley, Stanford, and Santa Cruz can present their current research in an informal and collaborative setting. The workshop was an all-day affair which took place in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. The... [More]

LASC 2008
On Friday March 7th and Saturday March 8th, the Department hosted one of the most important events of the year: the annual graduate student conference known as LASC (Linguistics at Santa Cruz). This yearly event provides 2nd and 3rd year graduate students with an opportunity to present their current research before an audience of faculty, peers, vi... [More]

Honor for Judith Aissen
At the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, held in Chicago in January 2008, Judith Aissen was named a Fellow of the Society. Similarly honored at the same meeting was Professor emeritus Geoff Pullum. Election as a Fellow recognizes a record of distinguished contributions to the discipline, and is a very rare honor indeed... [More]

Moving Back
The department moved back to its once and future home in Stevenson College during the last two weeks of August 2007. Some adjustments and fine-tuning remain to be completed, but faculty, staff and graduate students are now for the most part (re)settled on the re-furbished second floor of Stevenson.