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FACULTY HONORS AND AWARDS

Mary Bucholtz

  • 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

  • Skomp Distinguished Lecturer, Indiana University, 1997
  • Medal of the University of Helsinki, 1998
  • Symposium in Honor of Wallace Chafe, Louvain, Belgium, December 12, 2005

Patricia M. Clancy

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

Bernard Comrie

  • 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

  • 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

  • Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award for non-ladder faculty, 2007

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

  • Fellow, Linguistic Society of America, 2006