Faculty

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Post Doctoral Fellows

What our academic titles mean:

The Linguistics department includes faculty and teaching staff in a range of appointment types. All faculty advise and teach students, and students are encouraged to take advantage of everyone’s expertise.

Ph.D. students: When searching for a primary faculty mentor to direct your dissertation, be aware that only tenure-line faculty can direct dissertations. All other faculty are eligible to serve on dissertation committees as well as direct Master’s Theses.

Tenure Line (TL) Faculty are all full-time appointments: Assistant Professor (without tenure, most junior), and the two permanent appointments: Associate Professor (tenured) and (Full) Professor (tenured, most senior level).
Non-Tenure Line (NTL) Faculty are fixed-term appointments without tenure, and may be part-time or full-time. Non-tenure-line faculty may be appointed at the rank of Assistant, Associate or Full in the areas of Research, Teaching or Practice.
Postdocs are fixed-term appointees who teach one course per semester during their appointments.
Adjunct Lecturers are appointed to teach courses on a semester-by-semester basis.

Faculty

Post Doctoral Fellows

What our academic titles mean:

Affiliated Faculty

Emeritus Faculty