Morris Halle Memorial Award for Faculty Excellence in Phonology

About the award

First established in 2021, the Morris Halle Award for Faculty Excellence in Phonology will be used to defray expenses associated with participation in the LSA’s Annual Meeting. It will be awarded for outstanding scholarship in phonology by an early career faculty member in linguistics.

This award is endowed with much gratitude by LSA Life Member Robert Vago (Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY), who earned his undergraduate degree at UCLA (1970) and his PhD at Harvard (1974).

The award is given every year, as nominations warrant.

The nomination period opens on February 18, 2025, and closes at 11:59 PM (ET) on June 30, 2025.

To submit a nomination, log into the Member Portal, click 'Access Membership Benefits' and access the nomination form. If you are not a member, join us today to submit a nomination.

Eligibility

• Nominators and nominees must be current members of the LSA.
• Nominations of women and individuals from underrepresented ethnic groups are strongly encouraged.
• The Morris Halle Memorial Award recognizes outstanding scholarship in phonology by an early career linguist, i.e., who received their Ph.D. in the last ten years from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2025, or a pre-tenured faculty member.
• You can nominate yourself or your colleague.
• US residency or citizenship is not required.

The nomination must include a CV, two papers of representative work, responses to questions related to the nominees' significant impact of outstanding scholarship in phonology, the forward-looking and innovative character of the nominee's work in phonology, and empirical rigor of the nominee's scholarship in phonology. The nomination must include a citation statement to be read at the Award Ceremony if the nomination is selected.

Selection

The Halle Award and Fromkin Prize Committee reviews nominations and makes recommendations to the Executive Committee, which must formally approve the recommendations. The winner will be recognized at the Awards Ceremony at the next LSA Annual Meeting in January.