Ch-ch-changes

Fall 2021 marks a season of unprecedented change not only in the wider world, but here in the halls of Stevenson College. Some of our colleagues, like Junko Ito and Ashley Hardisty, have moved into different roles. But we’ve welcomed many new denizens, like Professor Rachel Walker, new Department Manager Sarah Amador, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Scholar Jaime Perez Gonzalez, and new Graduate Coordinator James Funk (q.v. sup.). And the Cave once again teems with life with our large incoming class of Ph.D., M.A., and B.A./M.A. students (and can we rightly call it a cave anymore, after the pre-pandemic reno? The Grotto, anyone?).

 

In view of all this, WHASC is pleased to announce its series “New Faces in Stevenson,” featuring a few capsule interviews each issue to better get to know our new colleagues. Keep your eyes peeled for the first instal(l)ment in the next issue!

As the cockroach flies

Jake Vincent, who graduated with the Ph.D. in June 2021, writes with the following update and photo:
“Since graduating, I’ve moved to the San Fernando Valley (“The Valley”) and have been adjusting to all things SoCal: heat, being tailgated, and the occasional flying cockroach, to name a few. I miss the Santa Cruz redwoods, but I’m appreciating the natural beauty of the area down here, too (see photo). Work wise, I’m currently teaching Language & Mind remotely, which I’m enjoying since I never had the opportunity to TA for the class. While I patiently look for my next career move, I’m working on small projects here and there, including writing a text editor plugin for navigating markdown notebooks.”
Pictured below: the Garden of the Gods, in the Northwest corner of the valley.

MORIMOTO RECEIVES JSPS POSTDOC

Dr. Maho Morimoto (Ph.D. 2020) was recently awarded a 3 year post doctoral position by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science to study the articulation and acoustic properties of geminate consonants in Japanese. Congratulations to Maho!

KUDOS TO MORWENNA HOEKS

Fourth-year graduate student Morwenna Hoeks advanced to candidacy in September with a Qualifying Exam defense on a paper entitled “Decomposing the focus effect: Evidence from reading”. Congratulations, Morwenna!

MIKKELSEN TO FULL

It was announced late in the summer that alumna Line Mikkelsen had been promoted to the rank of Professor in the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley. Line earned the Ph.D. at Santa Cruz in 2004 (her committee: Donka Farkas, Bill Ladusaw and Jim McCloskey) and began her career at Berkeley in the Fall semester following her graduation. She has worked on the linguistics of the Scandinavian languages and also on the indigenous languages of California and she is particularly well-known for her work on copula constructions. A paper with co-author Jorge Hankamer (`CP Complements to D) appeared in the most recent issue of Linguistic Inquiry (52.3 2021).

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