Alumni
Alum Adam Chong moves to University of Oxford
Alum Adam Chong was recently promoted to Reader at the Queen Mary University London, Department of Linguistics. On September 1, 2025, he will be moving to University of Oxford as Associate Professor in […]
Alum Travis Major and Harold Torrence have been awarded an NSF grant
Alum Travis Major (now Assistant Professor at USC) and Harold Torrence have been awarded an NSF grant for the project “The Crosslinguistic Components of Clausal Complementation”. Congratulations Harold and Travis!
Congratulations to Ph.D. Alum Canaan Breiss on New Faculty Role at the University of Chicago
Our 2022 Ph.D alumus Canaan Breiss has accepted an offer as a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. Congratulations, Canaan!
Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded an NSF scholarship to attend the Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks workshop
Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded an NSF scholarship to attend the workshop “Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks”, organized by our alum Canaan Briess (now at USC) and […]
Laura Kalin awarded LSA Early Career Award
Alum Laura Kalin (PhD 2014) is the recipient of the 2024 Early Career Award from the Linguistic Society of America, in recognition of her “exceptional record of service, research, teaching, […]
Ling & CS alumnus and founder of AI Safety, Mario Peng Lee, featured on UCLA Newsroom
Our very own Mario Peng Lee, who recently graduated this Spring 2024 as a Departmental Honors recipient with a B.A. in Linguistics & Computer Science and Psychology and a minor in Data […]
Linguistics Alum Ananda Lima’s Fiction Debut
UCLA Linguistics MA recipient, Ananda Lima is making a fiction debut with her book titled “Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil”. Congratulations Ananda! She is featured in the UCLA Newsroom and on the […]
Linguistics grad Emma Montilla among Bruins selected for Fulbright U.S. Student Program
Emma Montilla, who graduated in June 2025 graduate with a bachelor’s in applied linguistics, is among 12 UCLA students and recent graduates selected for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program in […]
Linguistics Undergraduate First Author on New Research Article
Grace Shoemaker, who graduated in 2025 from Linguistics at UCLA, is first author on a new paper out in the journal Health Communications. The paper is co-authored with faculty member […]
Minqi Liu to Fudan University
Minqi (Kiki) Liu has recently accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of Chinese Languages and Literature at Fudan University in Shanghai. Many congratulations, Kiki!
New Term Chair from Tom Bye and David Bohne
We are delighted to thank dear friends of UCLA Linguistics, alumnus Thomas J. Bye, Ph.D. ’76 and steadfast supporter David R. Bohne, for their legacy gift of $1,500,000 to establish […]