UCSB Linguistics Faculty Honors and Awards

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FACULTY HONORS AND AWARDS

Mary Bucholtz

Mary Bucholtz was named Professor of the Year by the Mortar Board Society of the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2008.
Research Experience for Undergraduates Supplement, "The Role of Social Interaction in the Development of Scientist Identities and the Retention of Undergraduate Women in Science Majors" (HRD-0624606), National Science Foundation, $65,325, 2007-2009
UCSB Academic Senate Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, 2007
Grant, "The Role of Social Interaction in the Development of Scientist Identities and the Retention of Undergraduate Women in Science Majors," National Science Foundation, $498,899, 2006-2009
UCSB Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, 2005
Grant, "Language and Social Marginalization among Academically Oriented Latino High-School Students," Small Grants Program, Spencer Foundation, $35,000, 2004-2006
Grant, "Conference on Perception and Realization in Language and Gender Research," National Science Foundadtion, $22480, 2002
Grant, "Women in Linguistics Mentoring Alliance," National Science Foundation, Advance Leadership Award (faculty associate; Monica Macaulay, principal investigator), $31,461, 2001
Richard Carley Hunt Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship, "Whiteness and Linguistic Practices in a California High School," Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, $10,375, 2000-2001

Wallace Chafe

Patricia M. Clancy

Outstanding Faculty Member, UCSB Residence Halls Association and Office of Residential Life, 2003, 1996

Bernard Comrie

Bernard Comrie was the 2008 Galileo Lecturer of the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
Bernard Comrie was named a member of Cercle Linguistique de Prague in 2008.
Bernard Comrie was elected President of the Societas Linguistica Europaea in 2008.
Fellow, Linguistic Society of America, 2007
Member, Academia Europaea, 2006
Honorary Doctor of Letters, La Trobe University, Australia, 2004
Foreign Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000
Corresponding Fellow, British Academy, 1999
Member, Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, 1999

John W. Du Bois

Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, research and teaching on corpus linguistics and discourse in Isreal, Fulbright Foundation, $55,000, 2003-2004
Contract, "Longman Spoken American Corpus" for lexicographic and grammatical research (with Wallace Chafe and Sandra Thompson), Longman Group, Ltd., $130,000, 1995-1997
Grant, "Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English" (with Wallace Chafe and Sandra Thompson), Advanced Research Projects Administration (ARPA) and Linguistic Data Consotium (LDC), $80,000, 1994-1997
Grant, "Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English" (with Wallace Chafe and Sandra Thompson), National Endowment for the Humanities , $203,734, 1992-1995
Grant, "Information Transfer Constraints and Strategies in Natural Language Communication," National Science Foundation, $86,489, 1986-1989

Carol Genetti

Carol Genetti received the 2009 Georg von der Gabelentz Award from the Association for Linguistic Typology for her book Grammar of Dolakha Newar. The Gabelentz Award was established to encourage and honor achievements in the field of documenting the world’s linguistic diversity through the writing of reference grammars.
Grant, "Workshop on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation," Documenting Endangered Languages Program, National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities, $103,690, 2007

Jeff Hanson

Marianne Mithun

Fellow, Linguistic Society of America, 2008
Kenneth Hale Professorship, Linguistic Society of America Institute, Stanford University, 2007
Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award for ladder-rank faculty, 2007
Doctor Honoris Causa, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 2003
Bloomfield Book Award, Linguistic Society of America, for The Languages of Native North America, 2002
Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, University of Oslo, Norway, 2000
Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 1998

Sandra A. Thompson