Language Sciences Professors Macaulay and Salmons are seeking a 50% Project Assistant for the 2020-2021 academic year (12 months) to serve as editorial assistant for the book series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory and the …
Month: August 2020
Welcome to New Faculty Member Ryan Henke
Language Sciences is happy to announce the addition of new tenure-track faculty member Ryan Henke to our program! Professor Henke joins us from the University of Hawaiʻi, where he recently defended his thesis The first …
Interview with Professor Wanner in Alumni Magazine
Professor Anja Wanner, Language Sciences faculty member and Chair of the Department of English, was featured in a recent story in On Wisconsin, UW-Madison’s alumni magazine. In her interview “We Are Not the Grammar Police,” …
Forthcoming Faculty Publications
A couple of our faculty have forthcoming edited volumes in interesting areas of linguistic research: Rajiv Rao (2020) – Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain. Spanish Phonetics and …
Student Prizes and Honors
Congratulations are in order to several Linguistics majors who were awarded scholarships, prizes, and honor society memberships in 2020. Special merit scholarships: Elena Groves was awarded the Ralph B. Abrams Scholarship for academic excellence Michelle …