UC Berkeley/Assistant Professor/Sociolinguistics

[Harold Schiffman]

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Good Day,
>
> Attached (and included below) is an advertisement for a tenure-track,
> Assistant Professor position in the Linguistics Department at the
> University of California, Berkeley.
>
> We would appreciate it if you could post and/or distribute this ad in
> your
> department.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Paula M. Floro
> Manager
> UC Berkeley, Department of Linguistics
>
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> * * *
>
>
> TENURE-TRACK LINGUISTICS POSITION
> UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
>
> Pending budgetary approval, the Department of Linguistics at the
> University of California, Berkeley, has been authorized to make a
> tenure-track appointment at the rank of assistant professor.  Salary
> will
> be commensurate with experience; the Ph.D. is required by July 1, 2008,
> the starting date of the appointment.  Duties will include
> undergraduate
> and graduate teaching (four courses per year) and advising,
> supervision of
> student research, and development of a successful and original research
> program.
>
> We invite applications from linguists specializing in the social or
> demographic contexts of language.  Applicants could include
> specialists in
> language variation, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics,
> dialectology, language contact, language use and pragmatics, creole
> linguistics, or mixed languages (among other areas).  Applicants should
> have a broad intellectual engagement with the field of linguistics, a
> theoretically informed and empirically grounded research
> specialization,
> and demonstrated excellence in teaching.  We are especially interested
> in
> applicants whose research involves quantitative analysis, corpus work,
> documentary linguistics, or other new methodologies.
>
> Applications should include a curriculum vitae, representative work,
> and
> evidence of excellence in teaching; three letters of recommendation
> should
> also be sent.  (Please direct referees to
> http://apo.chance.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html for the University's
> statement
> on confidentiality.)  Preliminary interviews may be conducted, by
> invitation, at the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting in
> Chicago, IL, in January 2007.
>
> Applications and all supporting materials, including letters of
> recommendation, should be submitted on-line (in pdf format) at
> http://gold.ls.berkeley.edu:80/sReg.php?i=55 and must be received by
> November 15, 2007; late applications will not be considered.  Questions
> can be sent by email to: lingsearch07 at berkeley.edu.  The University of
> California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
>
>



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