Honors and Awards: Prior Years

  • ALEXANDRA AIKHENVALD, MIRA ARIEL, MARIANNE BAKRÓ-NAGY, DÁNIEL ZOLTÁN KÁDÁR, and TERJE LOHNDAL elected to the Academia Europaea (2021)
 
  • EMILY R. LAKE awarded a Mellon-American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2021)
 
  • JOHN BAUGH and DEBORAH TANNEN elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2021)
 
  • JOHN RICKFORD and LUIGI RIZZI elected to the National Academy of Sciences (2021)
 
  • MAZIAR TOOSARVANDANI, IVY SICHEL, and MATTHEW WAGERS awarded a National Science Foundation grant (2020)
 
  • DAVID ADGER, ALICE HARRIS, and ANTONELLA SORACE elected Fellows of the British Academy (2020)
 
  • MARY MURPHY awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant (2020)
 
  • BARBARA PARTEE awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science (2020)
 
  • MICHAEL OBIRI-YEBOAH awarded a Mellon-American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2020)
 
  • DIANE BRENTARI awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2020)
 
  • AMIR ZELDES awarded a Digital Humanities Award for Best Tool or Suite of Tools for building and publishing the Coptic Dictionary Online (2020)
 
  • WILLIAM LABOV awarded the Talcott Parsons Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania (2020)
 
  • LISE DOBRIN awarded a National Endowment from the Humanities-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication (2020)
 
  • DEBORAH ANDERSON awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the Universal Scripts Project (2020)
 
  • JENNIFER COLE, SUZANNE FLYNN, ALLARD JONGMAN, and DAN JURAFSKY elected as fellows to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2019)
 
  • SHANA POPLACK awarded the André-Laurendeau Prize (2019)
 
  • LUIGI RIZZI elected as a Professor at the Collège de France (2019)
 
  • SUE KALT awarded a Documenting Endangered Languages Fellowship by the National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities (2019)
 
  • BRIAN JOSEPH elected to the American Philosophical Society (2019)
 
  • JANET PIERREHUMBERT elected to the National Academy of Sciences (2019)
 
  • WALT WOLFRAM elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2019)
 
  • GENNARO CHIERCHIA awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2019)
 
  • PATIENCE EPPS, SUSAN KALT, ADAM SINGERMAN, ALICE TAFF, and BETH YOUNG awarded grants by the National Endowment of the Humanities (2019)
 
  • PHILIP RUBIN appointed to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Challenges for International Scientific Partnerships Large-Scale Working Group (2019)
 
  • BERNAT BARDAGIL-MÄS, ANNE BERTRAND, and BRENDON YODER awarded Language Legacies Grants by the Endangered Language Fund (2018)
 
  • TIM THORNES awarded a Fellowship by the Documenting Endangered Languages Program for the project "Wadateka'a Nadeguyengana: Harney Valley Paiute Stories" (2018)
 
  • JULIA HIRSCHBERG and REXHAP ISMAJLI elected Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018)
 
  • PETRA GOEDEGEBUURE awarded a Fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies for the project "Expressing Agency and Point of View: The Core Cases in the Ancient Anatolian Languages, 1700-300 BCE" (2018)
 
  • AMY FOUNTAIN, JONATHAN BOBALJIK, SHANNON BISCHOFF, and PATIENCE EPPS awarded grants by the National Endowment of the Humanities (2018)
 
  • MARIANNE MASON and PETRA GOEDEGEBUURE awarded fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (2018)
 
  • LENORE GRENOBLE and CHARLES YANG awarded Guggenheim Fellowships (2018)
 
  • SHANA POPLACK awarded an honorary Doctorate of Literature degree from University College Dublin (2017)
 
  • JOSEPH E. AOUN awarded an Academic Leadership Award by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (2017)
 
  • TOM MCCOY awarded the Alpheus Henry Snow Prize by Yale University (2017)
 
  • JESSIE LITTLE DOE BAIRD awarded an honorary Doctor of Social Sciences degree by Yale University (2017)
 
  • JOHN BAUGH appointed to the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences of the National Academy of the Sciences (2017)
 
  • JOAN BRESNAN awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association for Computational Linguistics (2016)
 
  • JASON MERCHANT named the first Lorna Puttkammer Straus Professor in Linguistics by the University of Chicago (2016)
 
  • CHRISTOPHER KENNEDY named the William H. Colvin Professor in Linguistics by the University of Chicago (2016)
 
  • KEREN RICE awarded the Pierre Chauveau medal of the Royal Society of Canada (2016)
 
  • STEVEN PINKER elected to the National Academy of the Sciences (2016)
 
  • DENNIS BARON and JONATHAN BOBALJIK awarded Guggenheim Fellowships (2016)
 
  • NATHAN SEVERANCE, SIMON PETERS, MARJORIE HERBERT, and JULIA FINE awarded Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards by the National Science Foundation (2016)
 
  • ALBERT VALDMAN, BRUCE NEVIN, TIMOTHY MONTLER, JASON LOBEL, HIROKO SATO, ALESSANDRO JAKER, and WILLEM DE REUSE awarded National Endowment for the Humanities grants (2016)
 
  • ADELE GOLDBERG awarded a Humboldt Research Award (2016)
 
  • JOHN J. OHALA awarded the Silver Medal in Speech Communication by the Acoustical Society of America (2015)
 
  • WILLIAM LABOV awarded the British Academy's Neil & Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics (2015)
 
  • NANCY DORIAN awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters degree by the University of Glasgow (2015)
 
  • The NORTH AMERICAN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS OLYMPIAD TEAMS win nine medals at the International Linguistics Olympiad (2015)
 
  • JOAN BRESNAN named a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (2015)
 
  • YEN-LING CHEN awarded an Award for China Studies from the American Council of Learned Societies (2015)
 
  • CARA SHOUSTERMAN, ZOE L. ZILIAK MICHEL, and AMELIA DIETRICH awarded Fellowships by the American Council of Learned Societies (2015)
 
  • KEREN RICE elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015)
 
  • TIMOTHY W. GRINSELL named a Mellon-American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellow (2015)
 
  • CHRIS COLLINS awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015)
 
  • ANNE CURZAN named the Associate Dean for Humanties at the University of Michigan (2015)
 
  • BROOK LILLEHAUGEN named a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies for the project "A Collection of Zapotec Indigenous Testaments in Translation with Linguistic Analysis and Annotation" (2015)
 
  • KIRK HAZEN named a Claude Worthington Benedum Distinguished Scholar (2015)
 
  • RIKKER DOCKUM and DANIEL HIEBER awarded Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards by the National Science Foundation (2015)
 
  • SHEILA E. BLUMSTEIN awarded the Silver Medal in Speech Communication by the Acoustical Society of America (2015)
 
  • RALPH W. FASOLD, LISA MENN, and PAMELA MUNRO named as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2014)
 
  • IVANO CAPONIGRO and PATIENCE EPPS awarded Fellowships by the American Council of Learned Societies (2014)
 
  • MARK ARONOFF awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2014)
 
  • TERJE LOHNDAL awarded the Nils Klim Prize (2014)
 
  • ARTEMIS ALEXIADOU awarded a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2014)
 
  • KEREN RICE made an Officer of the Order of Canada (2014)
 
  • RAY JACKENDOFF awarded the David E. Rumelhart Prize (2014)
 
  • JOSEPH E. AOUN elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013)
 
  • WALF WOLFRAM awarded the North Carolina Award (2013)
 
  • MARY DALRYMPLE elected as a Fellow of the British Academy (2013)
 
  • MARK ARONOFF and DAVID M. PERLMUTTER elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2013)
 
  • JUDITH TONHAUSER awarded a Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars from the American Council of Learned Societies (2013)
 
  • ANVITA ABBI awarded the Padma Shri Award by the President of India (2013)
 
  • PATRICIA L. IRWIN awarded a New Faculty Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, given as part of the American Council of Learned Societies' New Faculty Fellows Program (2013)
 
  • ​WILLIAM LABOV awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science (2013)
 
  • MICHEL DEGRAFF awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for his study of the value of native-language instruction in Haiti's schools (2012)