Santa Crucians at the LSA Annual Meeting

Picking up a tradition disrupted by the pandemic, current and past members of the Department gathered for the Santa Cruz party at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Denver earlier this month. In attendance on Saturday night, at the lounge atop the conference hotel with sweeping views of the Rocky Mountains, were current faculty Ryan Bennett, Maziar Toosarvandani, and Matt Wagers, joined by graduate alumni Aaron Kaplan (PhD 2008), Chris Kennedy (PhD 1997), and Anissa Zaitsu (BA 2017, MA 2018) and undergraduate alumni Caroline Andrews (BA 2011), Kirby Conrod (BA 2011), Maura O’Leary (BA 2013), and Devin Tankersley (BA 2011).

Also in attendance was a South Bay neighbor, Yining Nie, who recently joined the Department of Linguistics at San José State as an Assistant Professor.

The Santa Cruz party attendees all look forward to reuniting with other members of the UCSC linguistics community at next year’s Annual Meeting in New York.