Academic and Administrative History

II. ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY

Degrees:

2009		Honorary Doctorate, University of Uppsala
2007		Honorary Doctorate, University of Helsinki
1964		Ph.D. in English Language, University of California, Berkeley
1960		B.A. in English Language and Literature, Oxford University

Main Teaching Positions:

1970-2003		Associate Professor, then Professor of Linguistics andEnglish, Stanford University
1964-70		Assistant Professor, Department of English, UC Berkeley (with leaves for visiting appointments at the Department of Language and Linguistics, University College, Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania and Department of Language, University of York, England)

Grants, fellowships:

2000 -		AAAS Fellow
1983-84		Simon Guggenheim Fellow
1983-84		Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the BehavioralSciences

Selected Academic Service:

2008-11		President, International Society for the Linguistics of English.
1999-2009		Linguistics Delegate to Oxford University Press, USA.
1999-		Series Editor with Bernd Kortmann (Freiburg University) of Topics in English Linguistics, Mouton de Gruyter
1999-		Member of Consulting Board, International Pragmatics Association,
1994-98		Secretary-Treasurer, Linguistic Society of America
1987		President, Linguistic Society of America
1982		Member of NEH advisory committee
1979-80		President, International Society for Historical Linguistics; hosted theFourth ICHL at Stanford University

Selected Administrative Service:
University service at Stanford:

2000-01		Member, Advisory Board
2000		Chair, Writing Programs Review Committee
1993-95		AAUP President, Stanford Chapter
1985-91		Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies, StanfordUniversity; Acting Provost July-August 1987
1980-83,		1984-85, 1992-94, 1998-2000 Elected Member of the Faculty Senate
1980-85		Chair, Department of Linguistics

Other Administrative Service:

2007-8		Research Assessment Exercise, Higher Education Funding Council for England, Panel M
1999		Member, electoral board for selection of Chair of Linguistics, Oxford University
1995-96, 99-01		Research Assessment Exercise, Higher Education Funding Council for England, Linguistics Panel
1990-92		Chair, TOEFL Policy Board
1990		Member of AAU/AGS Taskforce on Institutional Policies to Improve Doctoral Education
1989		Chair of Council of Graduate Schools Task Force to rewrite The Doctor of Philosophy
1988-93		Member of GRE Board
1987		Member of Middle States Accreditation Team, CUNY Graduate School
1965-66		Member of the joint Institute/Ministry of Education language and literature panel, Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania (for planning English and French language curricula in Tanzanian schools)

November 2011

Elizabeth C. Traugott