Johanna Nichols - Curriculum Vitae#


Education:
  • University of California, Berkeley: Ph.D. in Linguistics, 1973. Dissertation: The Balto-Slavic predicate instrumental: A problem in diachronic syntax
  • University of Iowa: B.A. (summa cum laude) in French, 1967; minors: Russian, linguistics, music

Employment:
  • University of California, Berkeley, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
  • Lecturer, 1972 - 1974; assistant professor, 1974 - 1980; associate professor, 1980 - 1985; professor, 1985 - 2009; professor emerita, 2009 - present
  • University of California, Berkeley, Department of Linguistics
  • Affiliate professor, 2004-2009, Affiliate professor emerita 2009 - present
  • University of New Mexico, Department of Modern and Classical Languages
  • Instructor of Russian, 1971 - 1972
  • Albuquerque Symphony, Albuquerque, NM. Flute and piccolo, 1971 - 1972

Other professional experience (recent):
  • Visiting fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies Words, Bones, Genes, Tools (University of Tübingen) September-December 2019 and September-December 2016
  • Helsinki University Humanities Visiting Professor (with PI status), 2017 - 2020
  • Academic Supervisor, Laboratory for Convergent Linguistic Processes, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, January 2017 - December 2019 and January 2020-December 2022 and January 2023 - December 2025
  • Collitz Professor, Linguistic Society of America Institute, July 2015. Course: Indo-European, its sisters, and its neighbors
  • Lecturer, Indian Summer School in Linguistics, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, September 2014
  • Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, January - June 2013
  • Co-taught undergraduate typology course (in charge: Michael Daniel and Nina Dobrushina), Higher School of Economics, Moscow, April 2012
  • LSA Linguistic Institute, 2009 Course: Computational methods in historical reconstruction (Co-taught with Tandy Warnow and Don Ringe)
  • Co-founder with Balthasar Bickel of the Autotyp databases and projects (https://www.autotyp.uzh.ch)

University and professional service (selected, recent years):
  • President, Association for Linguistic Typology, 2011-2015
  • Editor, Languages of the Caucasus http://escholarship.org/uc/languagesofcaucasus
  • Panel member, review committees: NSF-BCS, ERC, DoBeS, NWO, ELDP, ARC, etc.
  • Co-organizer, Association for Linguistic Typology conference. Berkeley, July 2009.
  • Executive Committee, Linguistic Society of America, 2006 - 2008

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