Stephen Levinson#
Long CV
Current and former positions:
- Managing Director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (1998-2001, 2007-8)
- Director, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (1994-)
- Professor of Comparative Linguistics at the Radboud University Nijmegen (1995- )
- Reader, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Linguistics (till 1994)
- Head, Max Planck Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Berlin (1989-1991) and Nijmegen (1991-1997)
Education, Scholarships and Research Fellowships
- University of Cambridge, 1967-70: BA in Social Anthropology, First Class Honours
- University of California, Berkeley
- Fulbright Award, Special Career Fellow 1970-75
- MA in Linguistic Anthropology, 1973
- Doctorate in Linguistic Anthropology, UCB, 1977(Thesis: "Social Deixis in a Tamil Village")
- LSA Fellowship, and Fellowship from Mathematical and Social Sciences Board, 1973
- Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, 1974, Visiting Scholar
- Australian National University, Visiting Research Fellow 1980-82
- Center for the Study of Information and Language, Stanford University, Visiting Professor, 1987-8
Honours, etc
- Senior Scholar, King's College, Cambridge, 1970
- Fullbright Award, 1970
- Member of High Table, King’s College, Cambridge, 1975-
- Professor, Linguistic Society of America Linguistics Institute, Stanford University, 1987
- Fellow of the British Academy, 1988
- The Nijmegen Lectures 1988
- Stirling Prize, American Anthropology Association, 1992
- The Stern Lectures, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1998
- Professor, Linguistic Society of America Linguistics Institute, U.C. Santa Barbara 2001
- Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Fellow-Elect 2001
- Member of the Academia Europaea, 2003-
- Hale Professor, Linguistic Society of America, 2009