Job News

[via “The Philosophical Gourmet”:http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/, more precisely their Update E-Mail Service]

bq. Anthony Gillies (epistemology, decision theory, philosophy of language), currently tenure-track at the University of Texas at Austin, has accepted a tenure-track offer from Harvard University. Gillies earned his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona.

That’s good news for the Metro Boston language science community. I met “Thony”:http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/gillies/ a while back when he sat in on a course on conditionals I taught at ESSLI 1999. We met again when I came to Tucson for a colloquium talk. I look forward to him being in Cambridge. (He also likes soccer!)

In linguistics, we have nothing like the Philosophical Gourmet. There is not even an (un)official job gossip service. I myself am spectacularly out of the loop on such matters. Here’s what I know, or rather what I think I know, about semantics jobs this year (in alphabetical order):

  • “Ana Arregui”:http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~ana/, finishing at “UMass Amherst”:http://www.umass.edu/linguist/, has accepted a tenure-track offer from the “University of Ottawa”:http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/linguistique/eng/. [Thanks to “Luis Alonso-Ovalle”:http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~luisalo, cf. the comments to this post.]
  • Elena Guerzoni, finishing at “MIT”:http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/, has accepted a tenure-track offer from “USC”:http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/linguistics/.
  • “Michela Ippolito”:http://www2.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/%7Emichela/, recent PhD from “MIT”:http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/, currently post-doc at “Tübingen”:http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/, has accepted a visiting position at “UC Santa Cruz”:http://ling.ucsc.edu/.
  • “Chris Potts”:http://ling.ucsc.edu/~potts/, finishing at “UC Santa Cruz”:http://ling.ucsc.edu/, has accepted a tenure-track offer from “UMass Amherst”:http://www.umass.edu/linguist/.

If anyone knows more, perhaps you could post a comment, which I will then incorporate in an update of this post.

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