[Lingtyp] PhD position at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

[Shelece Easterday]

(apologies for cross-posting)


Dear all,


We would be grateful if you could forward this advertisement for a PhD
position to any students who might be interested.


Thank you,

Shelece Easterday


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PhD position at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa invites
applications from students interested in pursuing a fully-funded Ph.D.
program in Linguistics, starting from Fall 2025. Initial funding would be
provided through a Graduate Research Assistantship provided by the National
Science Foundation. The NSF-funded project, “Documenting endangered
languages through training and capacity building among diaspora
communities”, will focus on collaborative research, documentation, and
community-facing mentorship within the Micronesian diaspora communities in
Hawai‘i. More information about the NSF-funded project can be found online:
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2421485.

We are currently recruiting two PhD students to work with this project
beginning Fall 2025. Duties for the Graduate Research Assistant include:

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   Help coordinate undergraduate research positions for students conducting
   research on Micronesian languages;
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   Work with local non-profits to organize language documentation workshops
   in collaboration with the Language Documentation Training Center (
   https://www.ldtc.org);
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   Curate audiovisual documentation for archiving in Kaipuleohone Language
   Archive;
   -

   Support a diversity of lab- and field-based research activities.


Previous background with Micronesian languages or diaspora linguistics is
welcome but not required. Desired qualifications include a commitment to
community-engaged language documentation, familiarity with data management
principles and methods, and the ability to work well both independently and
in a diverse team that includes academic researchers and members of
diaspora communities in Hawai‘i. In addition to these, core research
interests in one or more of the following areas are particularly welcome:
articulatory phonetics, usage-based approaches to phonology and
morphosyntax, language description, typology, corpus linguistics, and/or
linguistic encoding of spatial relations.

The initial two years of funding will be through the NSF grant, after which
the student will receive three guaranteed years of funding through the
Department of Linguistics. All applicants must go through the general
admissions process. In their application materials, the student should
emphasize that they are applying to join this NSF-funded project and
demonstrate why they think they would be a good fit, given the criteria
mentioned above. The application deadline for the PhD program in
Linguistics is November 15, 2024. Details for admission to the PhD program
can be found at https://manoa.hawaii.edu/linguistics/graduate-admissions/

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa offers
a unique opportunity for graduate students to engage in language
documentation and language sustainability with diverse communities from the
Pacific and Asia as well as engage in cutting edge research methodologies
in the Language Analysis and Experimentation Laboratories. Find out more
about the department at our website: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/linguistics/

If you are interested in the position or have further questions, please
contact Bradley McDonnell mcdonn at hawaii.edu


-- 
Shelece Easterday, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
shelece at hawaii.edu
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