Joseph Aoun
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Dr. Joseph E. Aoun is the seventh president of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts where he took office on August 15, 2006. Prior to taking on the Presidency at Northeastern, Aoun was Dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California. He joined USC in 1982 in the Department of Lingusitics, and during his time at USC served as head of the academic Senate.
Aoun was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and is currently a member of Generative Linguistics in the Old World and the Linguistic Society of America.
Dr. Aoun was Inaugurated as the Seventh President of Northeastern on Monday, March 26, 2007.
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[edit] Education
- PhD: Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981
- Diploma of Advanced Studies: General and Theoretical Linguistics, University of Paris VIII, 1977
- Masters: Oriental Languages and Literature, Saint Joseph University, 1975
[edit] Awards
- USC Associates Award For Creativity In Research And Scholarship, 1997
- USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, Award for The Syntax of Scope (wih A. Li), 1993
- USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, Award for A Grammar of Anaphora, 1988
[edit] Editorships
- Cambridge University Press
- Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
- Oxford University Press
- Linguistic Inquiry, Member of Editorial Board
- The Linguistic Review
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