Six Women Named Fellows of the Linguistics Society of America

The Linguistic Society of America recently announced the selection of 10 new fellows who are being recognized for their “distinguished contributions to the discipline.” The honorees will be inducted as fellows of the society at the organization’s business meeting in Portland, Oregon, in January.

Six of the 10 new fellows are women and four of the six have ties to the linguistics program at the University of Massachusetts.

(L to R) Penelope Eckert, Alice C. Harris, Elizabeth O. Selkirk, Angelika Kratzer, Irene Heim, and Janet B. Pierrehumbert

Penelope Eckert is a professor of linguistics at Stanford University. She has been on the Stanford faculty since 1994. Previously, she taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Michigan.

Professor Eckert is a graduate of Oberlin College. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in linguistics from Columbia University.

Alice C. Harris is a professor of linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She came to Amherst in 2009 after teaching at Stony Brook University and Vanderbilt University.

A graduate of Randolph-Macon College, she earned a second bachelor’s degree at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. She holds a master’s degree from Essex University in England and a Ph.D. in linguistics from Harvard University.

Elizabeth O. Selkirk is professor emerita of linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the author of Phonology and Syntax: The Relation Between Sound and Structure.

Angelika Kratzer is a professor of linguistics at the University of Massachusetts. She has been on the faculty there since 1985.

Dr. Kratzer is a graduate of the University of Munich. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. at the University of Konstanz.

Irene Heim is a professor and chair of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before joining the MIT faculty in 1989, she taught at the University of Texas and the University of California at Los Angeles.

Dr. Heim holds a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Janet B. Pierrehumbert is a professor of linguistics at Northwestern University. She has been on the faculty at Northwestern since 1989.

Dr. Pierrehumbert is a summa cum laude graduate of Harvard University. She holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from MIT.