Stephen Levinson#


Long CV(info)

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

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