Assistant Professor of Teaching Hope Dawson has been awarded the Victoria A. Fromkin Lifetime Service Award in 2025 from the Linguistic Society of America for her work on the journal Language.
Faculty member Andrea Sims has been promoted to the rank of Professor.
Graduate student Chaeli Rule has been awarded a FLAS fellowship for intermediate Russian for the 2024-2025 Academic Year.
Alum Shelome Gooden (PhD '03) gave keynotes at the Speech Prosody conference in Leiden in July and at NWAV on November 9th. She is also co-leading a national effort, Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Research Leaders Network (HASS-RLN), along with fellow sociolinguist Christine Mallinson at UMBC.
Alum Xiaofei Lu (PhD ’06) was named the George C. and Jane G. Greer Professor in Language Acquisition by the College of the Liberal Arts at The Pennsylvania State University in August 2024.
Linguistics alum Junyu Ruan (PhD '24) has been hired as a Postdoctoral researcher at Boya College (Liberal Arts College) of Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China.
Faculty member Andrea Sims and alum Sun-Ah Jun (PhD '93) were recognized as Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America for their distinguished contributions to the discipline and to the LSA.
Faculty member Michael White has become an Editor in Chief of ACL Rolling Review, the principal peer review platform for the Association for Computational Linguistics.
