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CANDIDATES IN PHILOSOPHY, 2011–2012

The following students have fulfilled all Program requirements leading to the Candidate in Philosophy (C.Phil.) degree.

  • Timothy Dempsey
     
    Education
    B.A. in International Studies (Concentration in Asia), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
    B.A. in English (Literature), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
    B.A. in History, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
    Research interests
    Indo-European Linguistics
    Dissertation Title/Description
    Verbal Reduplication in Anatolian
    Craig Melchert, Advisor
    Activities/Awards
    Representative of the Program to the Humanities Council, 2006–2007
    Member, Annual Indo-European Conference Student Organizing Committee
  • Anna Pagé
     
    Education
    Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics 2010, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden, Netherlands)
    Summer School in Mediaeval and Modern Irish Language and Literature 2008, (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies – School of Celtic Studies, Ireland)
    M.A. Special Individualized Program (Linguistics), Concordia University (Montréal, Québec)
    M.Sc. in Celtic Studies, University of Edinburgh, (Edinburgh, Scotland)
    B.A. in Celtic Studies, Saint Francis Xavier University (Antigonish, Nova Scotia)
    Undergraduate training in Linguistics and Classics, Concordia University (Montréal, Québec)
    Research interests
    Comparative Indo-European mythology and poetics
    Celtic philology
    Indo-European and Old Irish syntax
    Dissertation Title/Description
    Birth Narratives in Indo-European Mythology
    Joseph Nagy, Advisor
    Recent Work
    “Conchobar and Compert.” At the 34th Annual University of California Celtic Conference / Annual Meeting of the Celtic Studies Association of North America. March 8-11, 2012. UCLA.
    “Stones in the Birth Narratives of Irish Heroes, Kings, and Saints.” At the 31st Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium. October 7-9, 2011. Harvard University.
    “The Births of Conchobor and the Heroic Biography.” At the “XIVth International Congress of Celtic Studies.” August 1-5, 2011. NUI Maynooth.
    “Staging the Births of Heroes and Saints in the Medieval Irish Tradition.” At the conference “Poets, Performers and Other Mythical Creatures of the Middle Ages.” June 3-4, 2011. UCLA.
    “The 'Heroic Biography' Pattern in the Birth and Death Tales of Conchobor mac Nessa.” At the “Celtic Studies Association of North America 34th Annual Meeting,” May 19-22, 2011. The Ohio State University.
    “The Births of Conchobor mac Nessa.” At the “33rd Annual University of California Celtic Conference.” April 1-2, 2011, UC Berkeley
    “Heroes and Heroic Families: The Kinship Relations in Math uab Mathonwy .” At the conference “Mythic Heroes of the Middle Ages.” April 17, 2010, UCLA
    Activities/Awards
    FQRSC (Le Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture) – Bourse de doctorat en recherche
    Member, Annual Indo-European Conference Student Organizing Committee
    UCLA Chancellor’s Prize Summer Mentorship Award, 2008
    UCLA Chancellor’s Prize Summer Mentorship Award, 2009
    Chair, Annual Indo-European Conference Student Organizing Committee, 2009
    Member At-Large, Executive Committee of the Celtic Studies Association of North America

THE PROGRAM’S STUDENTS, 2011–2012

The following students are working towards completing Program requirements leading to the Candidate in Philosophy (C.Phil.) degree and are enrolled during the 2011–2012 academic year.

  • Chiara Bozzone

    Education
    Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute 2009 (University of California, Berkeley)
    Leiden Summer School in Indo-European Linguistics 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 (Leiden University, Netherlands)
    Homeric Seminar 2003–2008 (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan)
    M.A. in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, Leiden University
    M.A. in Classics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan
    B.A. in Classics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan
    Liceo Classico, Collegio Gallio, Como
    Research interests
    Homeric studies
    Grammaticalization of tense, aspect and modality in Indo-European languages
    Construction grammar and cognitive linguistics
    Indo-European morphology
    Greek linguistics and philology
    Recent Work
    "The Grammaticalization of the Ancient Greek Aorist." XX International Conference of Historical Linguistics, 27th July 2011, Osaka, Japan.
    "PIE Subjunctive: Function and Development." Arbeitstagung on the Indo-European Verb, 13th September 2010, UCLA.
    "New Perspectives on Formularity" in Stephanie W. Jamison, H. Craig Melchert, and Brent Vine (eds.). 2010. Proceedings of the 21st Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Bremen: Hempen. 27–44.
    The Future Tense in the Rg-Veda  (Comparative Indo-European Linguistics M.A. Thesis)
    For a Cognitive Approach to Oral Composition  (Classics M.A. Thesis)
    Cohesion and Coherence in Some Books of the Iliad: A Textual Linguistics Analysis  (Classics B.A. Thesis)
    Activities/Awards
    Huygens Fellow, Leiden University, 2008–2009
    Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute Fellow, 2009
    UCLA Chancellor’s Prize Summer Mentorship Award, 2009
  • Jessica DeLisi
     
    Education
    Leiden Summer School in Indo-European Linguistics 2009 (Leiden University, Netherlands)
    M.A. in Linguistics, University of Georgia
    B.A. in English Language and Literature, The College of New Jersey
    Research interests
    Indo-European linguistics
    Indo-Iranian linguistics and philology
    Classical Armenian historical phonology
    Recent Work
    “Thoughts on Classical Armenian metathesis and the change of *dw  to erk .” East Coast Indo-European Conference. 11 June 2009, Reykjavík, Iceland.
    The Demonstrative Article in Modern Eastern Armenian  (M.A. Thesis)
    Activities/Awards
    Member, Annual Indo-European Conference Student Organizing Committee
  • Steven Faulkner
    Education
    A.B. in Linguistics, Secondary Field in Classics, Harvard University
    Research interests
    Greek historical morphology
    Indo-Iranian historical morphology
    Indo-European verb stem formation
    Indo-European derivational morphology
    Morphological Theory
    Recent Work
    "On Wheeler's Law Generalization and the Accentuation of Greek Second Member Verbal Governing Compounds in *-o-" 23rd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. 28 October 2011, Los Angeles, California.
    A Phonological Approach to a Historical Problem: A Study of Attic Reduplication in Ancient Greek.  (A.B. Honors Thesis)
    Activities/Awards
    UCLA Chancellor’s Prize Summer Mentorship Award, 2010
  • Mattyas Huggard
    Education
    B.Sc., with distinction, double major in Biology and Psychology, University of New Brunswick (Saint John, Canada)
    B.A., with honors and distinction, in Linguistics, Concordia University (Montreal, Canada)
    Research interests
    Historical linguistics
    Indo-European syntax
    Anatolian linguistics and philology
    Relative clauses and wh -movement in early Indo-European languages
    Scribal hands
    Cognitive evolution
    Recent Work
    "On reconstructing PIE *kwi-/*kwo-." XX International Conference on Historical Linguistics, July 25, 2011, Osaka Japan.
    "The Syntax of Questions in Hittite." XXX ECIEC, June 9, 2011, Harvard University.
    "The Syntax of Questions and Relative Clauses with respect to Declaratives in Hittite." XX International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, April 2, 2011, Thessaloniki Greece.
    "On Wh-(non)-movement and Internal Structures of the Hittite Preposed Relative Clause" in Stephanie W. Jamison, H. Craig Melchert and Brent Vine (eds.) 2011 Proceedings of the 22nd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Bremen: Hempen 83–104.
    Questions and Relative Problems: A Hittite Puzzle  (B.A. Honors thesis)
    Activities/Awards
    First Prize, Poster Presentation for Humanities at Concordia Undergraduate Research Day, 2008: “Teasing out Specific Language Impairment: a Biological Review”
    Honorary title Scholar of the Year 2007-2008
    2008-2009 New Millenium Scholarship, Concordia University
  • Tracy Jamison Wood
    Education
    ABD PhD: Classics, UCSB (Santa Barbara, CA)
    M.A. in Classics, University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS)
    B.A. in Classics, Baylor University (Waco, TX)
    Research interests
    Comparative Linguistics
    Greek, Roman, and Indic theatrical traditions
    Epithets in Homer and Sanskrit texts
    Comparative approaches to Roman and Indic love poetry
    Recent work:
    “Third Language Acquisition: Spanish-Speaking Students in the Latin Classroom.” Teaching Classical Languages 2.2 (2011): 81-93.
    “Light, Sight, and the Erotic: the Visual Narrative of Ovid’s Fasti”, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Grand Rapids, Michigan (April 2011)
    M.A. Thesis (Adviser: Pam Gordon): “Myth and Tragedy in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura”
    BA Thesis: (Adviser: John Thorburn): “Staging a Tragicomedy: Euripides’ Bacchae”
    Activities/Awards
    Volunteer docent: Getty Villa (current)
  • Bernhard Koller
     
    Education
    Leiden Summer School in Indo-European Linguistics 2006 (Leiden University, Netherlands)
    Indo-European Summer School, Freie Universität Berlin
    M.A. in Indo-European Studies, University of Vienna
    Research interests
    Historical linguistics
    Generative syntax
    Indo-European phonology and morphology
    Recent Work
    An Approach to Tocharian Schwa-Zero Alternations in Government Phonology  (M.A. Thesis).
    Activities/Awards
    UCLA Chancellor’s Prize Summer Mentorship Award, 2009
  • Éloïse Lemay
    Education
    Summer school in Medieval Codicology and Paleography, Summer 2011, Central European University (Budapest, Hungary)
    Internship, Summer 2010, Trésor de la Langue Française au Québec, Université Laval (Québec, Canada)
    M.A. in Classics, University of Western Ontario (London, Canada)
    B.A. in Classical and Medieval Studies, Université de Montréal (Montréal, Canada), Liste d’honneur du doyen, mention d’excellence 
    Research interests
    Latin and French literatures (Archaic to Early Modern)
    Latin, Proto-Romance, and French
    Textual criticism
    Lexicography
    Roman law
    Recent Work
    “The Republican interrex  and Its Application of imperium : The Case of the Elections of 216 BC,” Justice in the Greco-Roman World, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, March 2010.
    “Quantum interrēx nōbīs!” Second Annual Graduate Student Conference: “Pre-Modern Legal Fictions,” the Group for the Study of Early Cultures at the University of California, Irvine, California, November 2009.
    “The Religious and (Alleged) Political Role of the interrex ,” University of Alberta History and Classics Graduate Student Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, February 2009.
    “Whence the interrex ?” Brock University Classics Graduate Student Conference, St. Catharines, Ontario, January 2009.
    Translation:  MacLachlan, B.; “Les Dieux ne sont pas tous tombés sur la tête: L’Adoration des pierres dans le monde antique,” in Mélanges Pierre Senay , A. Daviault and P. Heuzé, eds. Pending publication .
    Activities/Awards
    2006, Honourable Mention, Canadian National Latin Sight Translation Contest
    2006, Undergraduate-level scholarship, Université de Montréal
    2008, Graduate-level scholarship from the Centre d’études classiques, Université de Montréal
    2009, Mary Routlege Fellowship, University of Western Ontario
    2010, Scholarship from the CIRAL (Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur les activités langagières, Université Laval)
  • Jesse Lundquist
    Education
    Postgraduate Course in Greek Epigraphy (British School at Athens, Greece) 2011
    B.A. (Honors, first class), Latin and Linguistics, University of Manchester, England
    7th Indo-European Dahlem Summer School (Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany) 2010
    Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics 2009, 2010, 2011 (Leiden University, Netherlands)
    Research interests
    Classical philology and linguistics
    Vedic (Indo-Iranian) philology and linguistics
    Indo-European Studies
    Activities/Awards
    2011 Faculty of the Humanities Outstanding Academic Achievement, University of Manchester, England
  • Kaspars Ozolins
     
    Education
    B.A. in Baltic Philology, University of Latvia (Riga)
    Research interests
    Indo-European morphology and phonology
    Etymology
    Greek and Italic linguistics and philology
    Germanic and Baltic linguistics and philology
    Epigraphy of all the older Indo-European texts
    Comparative Indo-European Mythology
    Optimality Theory
    Recent Work
    Consonant stems in Latvian  (B.A. Thesis)
    ”Problems in the reconstruction of the vowel system of Proto-Baltic.“ Current Research Questions in Baltic Philology : Annual Student Scholarly Conference of the University of Latvia, Department of Philology. 15–16 November 2006, Riga, Latvia
    Activities/Awards
    Certificate of Recognition for dissertation: Consonant Stems in Latvian
  • Ryan Sandell
     
    Education
    Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute 2009, University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, California)
    Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics 2007, 2008, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden, Netherlands)
    Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute 2007, Stanford University (Stanford, California)
    Critical Languages Institute 2006 (Emphasis: Modern Polish), Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona)
    M.A. in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden, Netherlands)
    B.A. in Philosophy, Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona)
    B.A. in Music, Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona)
    Research interests
    Indo-European morphophonology
    Indo-European verbal morphology and semantics
    Anatolian linguistics & philology
    Indo-Iranian linguistics & philology
    Celtic linguistics & philology
    Theory and methodology of historical linguistics
    Phonological theory (especially prosody)
    Recent Work
    "Evidence for Acrostatic Presents in Old Irish?". 31st Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium. 8 October 2011, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    "Reduplication and Grammaticalization in Vedic Sanskrit". 20th International Conference of Historical Linguistics. 28 July 2011, Osaka, Japan.
    “The Morphophonology of Reduplicated Presents in Vedic and PIE.” Proceedings of the 22nd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Stephanie W. Jamison, H. Craig Melchert, and Brent Vine (eds). 223-54. Bremen: Hempen.
    The Evidence for “Narten”-Formations in Greek  (M.A. Thesis)
    Activities/Awards
    National Merit Scholar, 2004-2008
    Fulbright Fellow, Netherlands, 2008-2009
    Linguistic Society of America Summer Fellow, 2009
  • Christina Skelton
     
    Education
    Graduate Student Seminar, “Greek Dialects and Greek Historical Linguistics” 2010, Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, DC, USA)
    Predoctoral Fellow, Summer 2008, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin, Germany)
    Leipzig Spring School on Linguistic Diversity 2008, Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany)
    Leiden Summer School in Indo-European Linguistics 2006, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden, Netherlands)
    Archaeological Field School at Petsas House, Summer 2005, (Mycenae, Greece)
    Graduate student in linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
    B.A. in Classics, University of Texas at Austin
    Research interests
    Mycenaean Greek
    Linear B and related scripts
    Proto-Cuneiform
    Aegean Bronze Age archaeology
    Applications of phylogenetic systematics to language and writing
    Recent Work
    “Dialect Evolution in Mycenaean Greece? Not so Fast.” American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, January 6–9, 2010.
    “Reexamining the Pylos Megaron Tablets.” Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, January 6–9, 2010.
    “Re-Examining the Pylos Megaron Tablets.” Kadmos  48 (2009): 107–23.
    “How Did the World’s First Writing Evolve?” National Science Foundation IGERT PI meeting. Alexandria, Virginia, May 17–19, 2009. (One of ten winners of the award for best poster.)
    “The Scribal Hands of Knossos, Part I: Phylogenetic Analyses.” At the conference “The Inner Workings of Mycenaean Bureaucracy: Scribes and Their Role in Mycenaean Administration.” University of Kent, September 20–21, 2008.
    “Methods of Using Phylogenetic Systematics to Reconstruct the History of the Linear B Script.” Archaeometry  50 (2008): 158–176.
    “The Value of Sign AB 53 ri  for Paleographical Studies of Linear B and Linear A.” Kadmos  47 (2008): 67–72.
    Activities/Awards
    Dedman Distinguished Scholarship, 2004-2008
    Dean’s Distinguished Graduate, College of Liberal Arts, Spring 2008
    $20,000 George H. Mitchell Award for Academic Excellence, 2007
    NSF IGERT Fellowship, 2008-2009
    2009 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
  • Elizabeth Thornton
     
    Education
    B.A. in Integrated Studies: Linguistics and Philology, Arizona State University
    Research interests
    Indo-European word order and poetics
    Greek and Latin linguistics and philology
    Translation theory and practice
    Cognitive linguistics
    Oral poetics
    Recent work:
    Beyond the Mosaic and Into the Mind: Sound, Sense, Sentence Processing and Translating Horace’s  Carmina (B.A. Thesis)
    Activities/Awards
    Sun Angel Grant for research in the humanities
    College of Liberal Arts and Sciences award for scholarship

IESSA

The prime aim of the Indo-European Studies Student Alliance, a registered UCLA Student Group, is to promote the integral study of Indo-European culture and the people who speak Indo-European languages, based on archaeology, comparative linguistics, biology, social structure, mythology and religion. A large part of the group’s efforts go towards supporting the Program’s Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. For more information, contact .

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