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100 Best universities for Linguistics in France

Updated: February 29, 2024

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Below is a list of best universities in France ranked based on their research performance in Linguistics. A graph of 3.12M citations received by 160K academic papers made by 127 universities in France was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.

We don't distinguish between undergraduate and graduate programs nor do we adjust for current majors offered. You can find information about granted degrees on a university page but always double-check with the university website.

1. Pierre and Marie Curie University

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2. Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

3. Paul Sabatier University - Toulouse III

4. Paris-Sud University

5. University of Aix-Marseilles

6. Grenoble Alpes University

7. University of Montpellier

8. University of Bordeaux

9. Polytechnic School

10. University of Lille

11. School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

12. University of Strasbourg

13. Normal Superior School

14. University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis

15. University of Lorraine

16. Normal Superior School of Lyon

17. University of Burgundy

18. Paris Diderot University

19. University of Paris 8

20. Paris Descartes University

21. TELECOM ParisTech

22. University of Nantes

23. Paris Dauphine University

24. University of Rouen Normandie

25. University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne

26. University of Caen Normandy

27. Paris-Est Creteil Val-de-Marne University

28. University of Poitiers

29. Normal Superior School of Paris-Saclay

30. Paris West University Nanterre La Defense

31. Francois Rabelais University

32. National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris

33. Grenoble Institute of Technology

34. New Sorbonne University - Paris III

35. Paris Institute of Political Studies

36. National Institute for Applied Sciences, Lyon

37. University of Technology of Compiegne

38. University of Picardie Jules Verne

39. University of Orleans

40. University of Rheims Champagne-Ardenne

41. University of Franche-Comte

42. University of Clermont Auvergne

43. National School of Bridges and Roads

44. University of Angers

45. Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University

46. University of Toulon

47. National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse

48. University of Western Brittany

49. University of Savoy Mont Blanc

50. National Advanced School of Engineering

51. CentraleSupelec

52. Artois University

53. University of La Rochelle

54. National Graduate School for Advanced Technologies

55. Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France

56. Central School of Nantes

57. University of Limoges

58. HEC School of Management

59. Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences

60. University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour

61. Catholic University of Lyon

62. EHESP School of Public Health

63. Eurecom

64. Central School of Lyon

65. University of Evry-Val d'Essonne

66. University of Avignon and the Vaucluse

67. National Institute for Applied Sciences, Rouen

68. School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry of the City of Paris

69. EMLYON Business School

70. Paul Valery University, Montpellier 3

71. University of Southern Brittany

72. Jean Monnet University

73. National Engineering School of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering

74. National Institute for Applied Sciences, Rennes

75. University of Perpignan Via Domitia

76. ESSEC Business School Paris

77. National Graduate School of Engineering, Caen

78. University of Technology of Troyes

79. Central School of Lille

80. Upper Alsace University

81. National School of Statistics and Economic Administration

82. EDHEC Business School

83. University of the Littoral Opal Coast

84. National Institute for Applied Sciences, Toulouse

85. Montpellier SupAgro

86. University of Corsica Pascal Paoli

87. University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard

88. University of Rennes 2

89. Pantheon-Assas Paris II University

90. Kedge Business School

91. Agrocampus Ouest

92. Grenoble Graduate School of Business

93. SKEMA Business School

94. University of Le Havre

95. University of Nimes

96. Lille Catholic University

97. ENSEA Graduate School

98. Audencia Nantes School of Management

99. National Graduate School of Chemistry, Paris

100. National Engineering Graduate School of Mechanics and Microtechnologies

The best cities to study Linguistics in France based on the number of universities and their ranks are Paris , Villeurbanne , Toulouse , and Orsay .

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We offer a 3-year PhD position in Linguistics at the University of Lille, France (Research Lab STL: Savoirs, Textes, Langage) on the topic of metaphor and neologisms. This position is funded by the French Research institution ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) within the framework of a research project entitled « Words Fail Me »: Naming the Unnamable (project acronym: PERINAT). PERINAT ( https://stl.univ-lille.fr/recherche/contrats-et-projets-de-recherche/en-cours/anr-perinat ) is a collaborative project involving three Universities (Birmingham, Lille, Naples) and it focuses on the discourse surrounding perinatal loss. Through the lens of cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis, the PERINAT research team will be observing the metaphors and neologisms used in the narrative of bereaved parents. The project is based on interviews with parents in France and Dutch-speaking Belgium. The PhD candidate will be responsible for the corpus of interviews in Dutch. We offer: – A PhD position for 3 years starting September 2023. – A salary and budget to attend conferences and publish papers in open access. – Opportunities for personal development beyond research including the possibility to contribute to teaching. Responsibilities: – Perform fundamental research in linguistics, build a corpus of transcribed interviews in Dutch-speaking Belgium (in real life or online) and publish contributions in highly-ranked venues. – Collaborate with the international partners involved in the PERINAT project. – Carry out some (light) teaching duties if interested, which may include lectures and the organization of student seminars. Profile: – You have (or are near completion of) a Master’s degree in Linguistics, preferably with some knowledge of metaphor theory and basic kills in IT-applications for linguistic analyses (corpus-analysis, statistics, discourse processing). – You have good knowledge of Dutch (main focus of the PhD project), an excellent knowledge of English, both spoken and written and working knowledge of French. – You are good at collaborating with others. – You work proactively and independently and have good communication skills. – You are highly motivated, ambitious and result-oriented. Assets: – Presentations in peer-reviewed conferences and/or publications in journals in the fields of linguistics. – Some knowledge in the field of perinatal death in Dutch-speaking Belgium. Applications: Applications should be written in English and include a brief cover letter with research interests and vision, a CV (including work experience and publications), and contact information for at least 2 referees. Candidates will be invited for an interview in Lille. Please send your application by March 31st to: [email protected]; [email protected] Contact Information: Giuditta Caliendo ([email protected]); Maarten Lemmens ([email protected]

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The PhD degree attests skills acquired through research in the framework of the doctoral trainin g, which has a 3 years reference duration when the research work is carried out full-time, and a 3 to 6 years duration when the thesis is prepared part-time. The PhD degree can also be obtained by the validation of the acquired experience (VAE). 

The PhD degree - the highest internationnaly recognized by higher education - is awarded after the defense of a thesis or the presentation of a set of original scientific works. 

The different frameworks to prepare a PhD

• Initial traininf (IF in French)
• Lifelong training, excluding initial training  (FTLVin French)
• Validation of the experience acquired (VAE  in French)

Admission to PhD training

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• Examination of an application 

Three regimes for three PhD preparation frameworks

Registration in initial training is possible as a continuation of a master or other equivalent degree. 

• In initial training, the PhD is full time prepared  The preparation is initially set to last  3 years. Beyond this 3 years, extensions of the duration of preparation are possible, with derogation.
• Funding dedicated to the preparation of the thesis is requested for a registration in initial training.  The reference amount of this funding corresponds to the remuneration of the PhD contract established by public law.  Derogations from this funding threshold can be requested from the head of the establishment. 

PhD students have a main research activity in one of the research team or unit of the doctoral school. 

They also have complementary PhD activities and training, intended to develop their scientific culture, their international openness and to prepare their professional future. The PhD program is personalized and defined with each doctoral school, in a framework commin to all PhD students at Université Paris-Sacaly. 

They can have complementary activities outside research, which contribute to the preparation of their professional future (teaching mission, scientific mediation, expertise of promotion of research), limited to one sixth of their time each year.

• A thesis monitoring committee report must be submitted by the PhD student for each of their re-registrations.

Registration in lifelong training concerns two categories of people : 

• Those who obtained their last diploma more than a year before the desired date of first enrollment in a PhD (whether the thesis is prepared full-time or part-time, and regardless of the financing conditions envisaged)
• Those who plan to prepare their thesis at the same time as a main activitiy other than the preparation of thesis, regardless of the date of the obtention of the last degree. The main activity means that its provides more than half of the income. 
• Lifelong training does not two types require a funding dedicated to the thesis preparation, but its comission ensures, before the first registration, that material and financial conditions are correct.  Ultimately, candidates who have no funding to prepare their thesis and have no income from their main activity could prepare a thesis, as long as the doctoral school and the commission can ensure that the material and financial resources conditions. 

In lifelong learning, the PhD can be prepared on a part-time basis . 

• The duration initially fixed for the preparation of the thesis depends on the time that can be devoted to its preparation . It is between 3 and 6 years. 
• A derogation must be  requested to extend the duration of the PhD beyond the one initially fixed . Its could be discussed during the monitoring committee taht takes place each abnd every year before re-registration.

PhD students prepare their thesis in one of the research teams or units of their doctoral school . The distributio of their time between the research unit and their non-research activities is fixed from the first registration. 

As PhD student in initial training, PhD student in lifelong training also have PhD complementary activities and training, intended to develop their scientific culture, their international opennes, and to prepare their professional future. Still, their training courses are arranged to feet with the specificities of their situation. 

A thesis monitoring committee must stand each and evrey year, before re-registration. Among other things, it help to check whether the conditions of the lifelong training PhD are suitable, or deserve to be rearranged. 

Planning lifelong training arrangement procedure

Unlike initial training and lifelong training, registration for a validation of the experience acquired can only be done when the original scientific work constitutes a coherent whole, that what makes possible to consider a defense. Those works may have been carried out partly in a research unit of the doctoral school (for example, within the framework of a volunteer researcher agreement), or entirely outside the academic framework. 

• PhD degree is awarded after a thesis defense or a presentation of the original scientific works .

To obtain a PhD degre by a validation of the experience acquired, the candidate must:

• Write a thesis or a dissertation to assess the personal part of collective work . This dissertation or thesis will be evaluated by two rapporteurs and by a defense jury. Composition and expectations of the jury are the same as the ones for the initial training or the lifelong training PhD
• As for the PhD students, the thesis or the dissertation will have to be legaly deposed and, if necessary published on the national portal www.theses.fr
• An accompanying, chosen among the supervisors of the doctoral school, can be offered for the preparation of the thesis or the dissertation 
• The work having been prepared before registration in the Validation of the experience acquired, the accompanying is not a thesis director. He does not ensure the scientific direction of the research work, but guides the candidate in the preparation of the dissertation or thesis.
• He plays the role of thesis director for the defense (in particular to propose the defense)

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Admission to a PhD Programme

A PhD application is a complete package that includes

• A candidate with a research project
• An original thesis topic
• A thesis director
• A team to host the research
• A proposed funding or a proof that the material and financial conditions necessary for the successful completion of the doctoral thesis 

Candidates apply to the doctoral school that their research or team unit is attached to  via the Université Paris-Saclay application portal . Their PhD director must also be attached to that doctoral school. 

An application is considered to have been submitted only once it has been completed and finalised . To do this, candidates must : 

• Have submitted all the documents requested by the doctoral school - A thesis subject - Information on the contions of the doctoral programme (thesis supervision, research unit) - CV - Transcripts - Other documents required by the doctoral school
• Obtain a favourable opinion from the thesis director
• Obtain a favourable opinion from the research or team unit director to wich the thesis directors responds

The application process is carried out via internet tool ADUM - an administrative tool for management of the PhD, from application to graduation.  Data recorded in ADUM are subjected to the RGPD regutions. 

Once the complete file has been submitted and the application has been finalised, it is examined by the doctoral school to which the applicant belongs. 

• In case of a favorable opinion on the application file, the candidate then presents his/her doctoral project and previous research experience during an audition, in front of a admission committee organised by the doctoral scool. This hearing is required in both initial formation and lifelong training, and regardless the conditions of funding and the progress of the thesis preparation envisaged.
• If the admissions committee gives a favourable opinion, the future PhD student may registered for the first time. 

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PhD position in computational linguistics

Distant supervision for question answering on temporal relations.

The LabEx-EFL ( Laboratory of Excellence Empirical Foundations in Linguistics ) is hiring a PhD candidate in computational linguistics for a 3-year contract. The position is full-time with a net salary of about 1700 euros per month and starts in the fall of 2021. The subject is part of the Computational Semantic Analysis research strand of the Labex EFL and will be supervised by Benoit Crabbé and Timothée Bernard.

Thesis topic:

In the last few years, deep learning methods have allowed a clear progress in semantic inference tasks, especially by minimizing the amount of annotated data. In this thesis, we propose to test the limits of these methods on a question answering task on temporal relations (before, after, during...) between events in texts. For instance, questions could be of the form does event X happens before event Y in the text ?

In general, inference on textual structure is a problem for which annotated data is notoriously costly and difficult to acquire and the case of temporal structure is not an exception. The thesis will rely on recent methods that aim to minimize the cost of manual annotation on temporal relations and rather use the question answering task as its main objective. We will study preferably interpretable models, graph-based or timeline-based, that will build their own representation of the text in order to answer the questions.

Moreover we want to test to which extent an end-to-end a question answering model is able to acquire and take advantage of his own temporal representation for answering temporal questions, specifically in cases where the answer is not literally present in the text and requires inference.

We will study to which extent accurate question answering models need to explicitly annotate temporal relations expressed in the text or to which extent we can leave some or all of these relations underspecified and rather use the downstream inference task in order to acquire the textual timeline.

Expected Profile:

The candidate should have a degree equivalent to a master's degree (before November 2021) with a specialization in artificial intelligence, natural language processing or computational linguistics. Candidates are expected to have substantial skills in deep learning or reinforcement learning and an interest in formal modeling.

Affiliation:

The PhD student will be attached to the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle ( http://www.llf.cnrs.fr ), funding will be available for missions, as well as access to computing servers. The student will be expected to attend doctoral seminars, and may eventually teach courses in NLP/computer linguistics at the University of Paris.

Application procedure:

The application should be sent to [email protected] and to [email protected] .

Application deadline: June 25, 2021 (midnight).

The application file must be composed of:

a letter of motivation;

a CV including the courses taken (master grades), diplomas obtained, possible internships;

the name and contact details of two references.

Shortlisted candidates will send their master's thesis and/or other written work showing their qualification for the project in question.

The auditions (by videoconference) of the shortlisted candidates will take place in early July 2021.

Contact: For questions regarding the application process, please contact [email protected]

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The Department of French Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid must approve admission to the specialization in French Linguistics at the doctoral level. Students applying to the Ph.D. program to specialize in French Linguistics must have an M.A. in French Linguistics or equivalent preparation. Courses taken in any area of Linguistics (preferably French) are a prerequisite, although specific details and equivalence of previous work will be evaluated on an individual basis. In their statement of purpose, students applying for the specialization are strongly encouraged to specify desired area(s) of focused research in French Linguistics. They are required to submit at least one written sample of previous work, in French or English, preferably on French Linguistics.

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• Three courses in French or Romance Linguistics beyond the requirements of the M.A.
• Two courses in separate areas of linguistics offered by the Department of Linguistics, including but not limited to: Phonetics, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, and Psycholinguistics. Courses taken at the M.A. level may be counted against this requirement with the approval of the adviser.  Note : Ph.D. candidates in French Linguistics selecting the Concentration in Romance Linguistics are encouraged to select courses in their respective second Romance language to fulfill this requirement
• Three courses offered by the Department of French at the 400- or 500-level in French and francophone culture, literature, and/or cinema which may be taken at Stage 1 (M.A. level) or Stage 2 (Ph.D. course work).
• Advanced coursework in the candidate's area(s) of specialization might be taken after the Ph.D. preliminary examination. Close consultation with the thesis advisor is required.

PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION

As soon as possible after admission to Stage 2, the Ph.D. candidate will choose an advisor who will serve as the chair of the doctoral committee. The student may be directed by any of the affiliated faculty. The committee will consist of the chair and three other professors, with at least half the members being faculty in the Department of French. Individual members of the committee, three of whom must be Graduate faculty, will be chosen in consultation with the advisor. The candidate is strongly encouraged to consult regularly with committee members about the advancement of his/her project.

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Ph.D. Programs

The Department of Linguistics offers four concentrations leading to the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Linguistics (see list below). No matter the concentration, our faculty work closely with students, guiding their research and supporting their passions.

• Applied Linguistics
• Computational Linguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Theoretical Linguistics

Applicants to the Ph.D. program are encouraged to identify prospective research advisors, at least one of whom should be in the concentration to which they apply.

After entering the program, Ph.D. students may elect to add a minor in a second one of these concentrations [new policy effective Spring 2023].

An interdisciplinary (second) concentration in Cognitive Science is also available to Ph.D. students.

Master’s in Passing

If, in their course of the Ph.D. program, a doctoral student meets all of the requirements of a M.S. degree in Linguistics, he or she may apply to receive a “Master’s in Passing.” Please consult section IV.D.3 of the Graduate School Bulletin for full details about the “in passing” or “terminal” Master’s degree.

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Courses are held in German (50%) and English (50%). PhD students can choose to write the dissertation in either language.

31 May (winter semester) 30 November (summer semester)

The Graduate School Empirical and Applied Linguistics offers promising young researchers an interdisciplinary PhD programme with a focus on linguistics. Professors are drawn from the following broad range of subjects, thus ensuring multidisciplinary collaboration:

• General Linguistics (Typology, Language Documentation and Description, Theoretical Linguistics)
• Second Language Acquisition / Applied Linguistics
• German Linguistics
• English Philology
• Romance Linguistics (French)
• Romance Linguistics (Italian)
• Romance Linguistics (Spanish)
• Dutch Philology
• Scandinavian Studies
• Slavic Studies
• Indo-European Studies
• Greek Philology
• Byzantine Studies
• Latin Philology
• Medieval and Modern Latin Philology
• Psychology (Psycholinguistics)
• Anthropology

Doctoral students in the PhD programme Empirical and Applied Linguistics can write their dissertation on any linguistic subject area, including applied linguistics, second language acquisition, and a linguistic topic within the framework of a specific philology. Students can choose whether to focus on a more theoretical or a more practical topic, provided that the dissertation has a solid empirical basis. The goal of the PhD programme is to ensure that the doctoral student is proficient in various methods of linguistic data collection and analysis and can therefore use these methods in a critical and reflective way.

All doctoral students will receive individual supervision from two faculty members. In order to enable a well supervised and efficiently completed PhD programme, a written supervision agreement detailing the student's goals and time frame will be drawn up before the doctoral student takes up her or his studies.

Studying at the Graduate School thus involves a constant exchange of ideas with the other doctoral students and exposure to the everyday workings of scientific enquiry. Because of its flexibility, the programme can accommodate each student's individual interests and plans for the future.

All doctoral students will meet on a regular basis in an informal type of colloquium or workshop in order to discuss methodological and theoretical issues. On three different occasions, they also have to attend the more formal Colloquium of the Doctoral Students where they have to report on the progress of their dissertation research and preparation:

• Proposal defence, usually at the end of the first semester
• Mid-term review, usually towards the end of the third semester
• Thesis defence at the end of the fifth semester

In addition to these obligatory courses, the programme comprises elements that can be tailored to meet each student's individual preferences and needs:

• An individually planned obligatory study programme covering 10 ECTS points
• An elective course from the element Teaching, Lecturing, Publishing that comprises at least 8 ECTS points
• An elective course from the element Organisation of Scientific Activities and Supplementary Studies equalling at least 12 ECTS points
• International guest lecturers
• Specialist literature in other languages
• Language training provided

Students must pay a semester contribution fee of 316.98 EUR per semester. This includes a "semester ticket" covering public transportation in the greater Münster area as well as the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

You can find more information here: https://www.uni-muenster.de/studieninteressierte/en/einschreibung/semesterbeitrag.shtml

We recommend that students budget at least 900 EUR per month to cover personal expenses (accommodation, living expenses, health insurance).

The Graduate School Empirical and Applied Linguistics does not offer scholarships for the entire duration of the doctoral studies. However, there is the possibility to receive financial support for international conferences and stays abroad.

University degree: Master's or Magister or an equivalent degree (Diplom, Staatsexamen, Maîtrise) For details regarding applications, see: http://www.uni-muenster.de/Promotionskolleg-Sprachwissenschaft/en/index.html

All students should at least understand written and spoken German and English well enough to be able to follow lectures and to read scientific papers. Should these language skills be missing, intensive language courses should be taken in order to meet these minimum requirements as quickly as possible.

Being able to actively speak German and English is not mandatory because you can meet all of the course and study requirements, including writing the dissertation, with just one language. However, without some basic communicative skills in spoken German, life in Münster will not really be fun.

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As in all popular university cities in Germany, accommodation is in high demand and is not easy to find in Münster – but it’s not impossible either!

Please contact the International Office (Bachelor's and Master's students) or the WWU Graduate Centre (doctoral candidates) for advice. Please also note that the University of Münster (like most German public universities) does not have its own student halls of residence.

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PhD Student Jae Weller honored with Graduate Student Service Scholarship

Congratulations to 3rd year Linguistics PhD student Jae Weller who received a well-deserved Graduate Student Service Scholarship this year! This award from the Graduate School recognizes and honors graduate students who volunteer to take on service roles in addition to their research, work, and family obligations.

Jae was nominated due to their outstanding and inspiring service to our campus as Co-President of the Linguistics Student Organization (LSO) . Jae has been a central force in the LSO since they arrived on campus, and has contributed to many projects including an innovative ASM grant which allowed undergraduate Linguistics students to travel to New York for the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in 2024 , organization of a Linguistics graduate school panel , a leading role in organizing the annual Workshop in General Linguistics , and numerous social events for students of all levels. Congratulations Jae – we really appreciate the many ways that you enrich our community, and are very happy to see your efforts recognized at the campus level with this award!

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Jane li receives an sshrc doctoral fellowship.

Congratulations to PhD student Jane Li for receiving a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (of Canada) Doctoral Fellowship !

Project Title: Allomorph computation in language production: a cross-linguistic study of speeded inflection

Field: Linguistics, Psycholinguistics

Project Description: When we want to speak, how do we mentally plan the sounds that eventually come together to form the word? This process seems trivial on the surface, but complications arise when one thinks of the finer details. One of the big wrinkles to this process is allomorphy — when a unit of meaning has multiple forms. For example, the English plural has three regular allomorphs: dog[z], cat[s], and leash[ɨz]. How do make sure we get the right allomorph? This is a question that has received a lot of attention in phonological theory (the first analysis of the English plural was almost 100 years ago!) yet severely understudied in psycholinguistics. My research hopes to bridge this gap by bringing together behavioural evidence from English and other languages (the content of this proposal) and potentially electrophysiological (EEG) evidence to shed light on the fine-grained timing properties of the processes described.

Advisor: Colin Wilson

About Me: I am from Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. I graduated from Simon Fraser University in 2021 with a degree in Linguistics and minor in Philosophy. I am currently a third year PhD student in the department. I am interested in morpho-phonology, and specialize in using behavioural experiments (speeded inflection, naming) to draw out the properties of phonological or morphological mental representations.

In the short term: I want to finish this PhD and sketch out a preliminary theory of morpho-phonology in language production while I’m at it. In the long term: I want to keep studying the representational basis of morphology, especially with non-English languages, perhaps as a faculty member somewhere back home…

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Seven yalies to hone leadership skills as knight-hennessy scholars.

Top row, from left, Daviana Berkowitz-Sklar, Tilly Brooks, and Gabe Malek. Second row, Qusay Omran, Henry Smith, Lina Volin, and Barkotel Zemenu.

A Yale College senior and six Yale alumni are among 90 scholars from 30 countries to be named Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford University. The scholars were selected for their independent thought, leadership, and civic-mindedness.

At Stanford, the cohort will pursue graduate degrees in 45 degree programs across all seven schools.

Knight-Hennessy Scholars is a multidisciplinary, multicultural graduate scholarship program that helps develop future leaders. The scholars receive up to three years of financial support to pursue graduate studies at Stanford while also engaging in experiences that prepare them to tackle global challenges.

The seven Yale affiliates named to the 2024 cohort of Knight-Hennessy scholars follows:

Daviana Berkowitz-Sklar ’23, who studied ecology and evolutionary biology as an undergraduate at Yale College, will pursue a Ph.D. in oceans at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. Raised in Costa Rica and California, Berkowitz-Sklar aspires to develop collaborative, science-based solutions to improve the health of ecosystems and the people who depend on them. She is interested in marine spatial ecology and socio-ecological systems and has conducted research in Costa Rican fishing communities with the DynaMAR Project at Stanford. She was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship as well as a Yale postgraduate fellowship to research whale migrations at OKEANOS-University of the Azores and a Rohr Reef Resilience Fellowship to study coral reef resilience at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Berkowitz-Sklar is the co-founder and president of a nonprofit organization, Nature Now International, through which she leads programs to engage youth in community-based science and conservation, including hands-on work with wildlife, citizen science, and STEM education.

Tilly Brooks  ’23, who was a linguistics major as a Yale College undergraduate, will concurrently pursue a Ph.D. in linguistics at Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences and a J.D. at Yale Law School. Brooks, who is from New Haven, studied Indo-European philology at Yale before discovering an interest in action-based research and the relationship between language and law. Focusing both on the effects of law and policy decisions on marginalized linguistic communities and the application of linguistic theories, research methods, and tools to interpretive legal processes, she researches what she calls “the law of language and the language of law.” In the long term, Brooks aims to draw communities of legal scholars, linguists, and legal practitioners together with the common goals of advancing linguistic justice in the practice of law, and refining the use of linguistic evidence and tools for law and policy purposes.

Gabe Malek ’20, who was a double major in American studies and anthropology at Yale, will pursue a J.D. at Stanford Law School. He aspires to leverage commercial law, financial regulation, and tax policy to accelerate the clean energy transition. Malek has served as chief of staff at Fervo Energy, a next-generation geothermal power developer, and deputy chief of staff to Mark Carney, co-chair of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero and former governor of the Bank of England. He began his career at Environmental Defense Fund, where he helped formalize and scale the organization’s investor engagement strategy. At Yale, Malek received the Edward Sapir Prize for his research on international climate finance and the Institute for Social and Policy Studies Director’s Fellowship for his commitment to public service.

Qusay Omran ’21, who studied chemistry as an undergraduate at Yale College, will pursue an M.D. and Ph.D. in genetics at Stanford School of Medicine. He aspires to develop innovative therapies for cancers and immunologic disorders through research in chemical and synthetic biology. In college, he studied nucleic acid chemical biology at Yale and the National Cancer Institute, publishing his senior thesis on a novel self-splicing assay. Omran also led the Yale Review of International Studies, where he edited and published academic essays on global affairs solicited from around the world. Originally from Bahrain, Omran is a passionate advocate for displaced populations. He worked at Havenly, a nonprofit dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty for refugee women. He earned a Dwight Hall Community Response Fellowship and the Berkeley College Fellows’ Prize for his contributions to the greater community.

Henry Smith  ’22, who was a double major in mathematics and statistics at Yale, is pursuing a Ph.D. in statistics at Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences. Through his Ph.D., Smith, who is from Hanover, Pennsylvania, aims to improve statistical understanding of machine learning algorithms so they can be more confidently applied across various domains. After graduating from Yale, he spent a year conducting research at the University of Cambridge, where he and a team developed a novel machine learning algorithm to solve a challenging problem in multi-drone flight. At Yale, Smith served as a leader of the Yale Votes Coalition to strengthen university voting policy and managed data for numerous political campaigns. He also spent three years preparing taxes for low-income New Haven residents. At Yale, Smith received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, an award for the best undergraduate thesis, and Yale’s Emerson Tuttle award for scholastic achievement.

Lina Volin ’19, who studied history at Yale, is pursuing a J.D. at Stanford Law School. Volin, who is from Hollywood, Florida, also holds a Master of Science degree in modern Middle Eastern studies from the University of Oxford. She aspires to advance access to health care and improve health outcomes through policymaking that centers equity and addresses intersecting social, economic, and legal issues. For three years, she served at the White House Gender Policy Council, most recently as director for health policy, where she worked on policy development and litigation response related to reproductive rights and helped to launch a new White House initiative aimed at closing critical research gaps in women’s health. Volin previously served as the council’s chief of staff and led efforts to advance pay equity and strengthen worker protections.

Barkotel Zemenu , an intensive physics major will graduate from Yale College this month, will pursue a Ph.D. in physics at Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences. Zemenu, who is from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has conducted in research on three continents, including work that has spanned particle physics, quantum gravity, and observational astronomy. At Stanford, he plans to leverage this background to investigate fundamental questions in cosmology, with a focus on the elusive neutrinos and the hidden dark sector. As a Yale undergraduate, Zemenu was selected to join the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Physics, named Top Oral Presenter at the annual international conference hosted by the American Physical Society, and awarded multiple national scholarships by the American Institute of Physics. At Yale, he enjoyed being a physics tutor and studying numerous foreign languages.

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