ALUM REPORT: RUTH KRAMER

Ruth Kramer, who was promoted in the spring to Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, submitted this update:

I had a fun and busy summer. I spent most of May at the University of Chicago — catching up with fellow alums Jason Merchant and Chris Kennedy and teaching a mini-seminar on agreement (in which we read a chapter of Mark Norris‘s dissertation). In June, I went to Roots IV in NYC with a number of Santa Cruz folks including alums Vera Gribanova and Matt Tucker, and grad student Steven Foley. In September, I traveled to Ottawa for a workshop on my (still) favorite linguistic topics ever: gender and number. I’m now on post-tenure sabbatical until late January when I take up a visiting position at NYU (where the current chair is alum Chris Barker). My book on gender — including results that I talked about at LASC 2014 — came out a few days ago. I’m hoping to see many members of the UCSC community in DC for LSA 2016!