Congrats to Vera Gribanova (Ph.D. ’10) for winning the C. L. Baker Award!

More alum accolades at the LSA!

It was announced by the LSA on November 2nd that UCSC alumna Vera Gribanova is to be honored at the 2022 Winter Meeting as the second winner of the C. L. Baker Award. This award recognizes excellence in research in the area of syntactic theory on the part of a scholar who is at the mid-point of a distinguished career. Vera was recognized for her work on the interactions among word-formation, ellipsis, and head-movement, for the sophistication of her work on Russian, and for pioneering investigations of Uzbek (an under-studied language of the Turkic family).

Vera earned the PhD at Santa Cruz in 2010 and has been in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford since the Fall of that year. She was tenured at Stanford in 2018.