Stefanie Kuzmack

 

 

Address

 

Department of Linguistics

University of Chicago

1010 E. 59th St.

Chicago, IL 60637

e-mail: Kuzmack  AT  uchicago.edu

 

 

Education

 

University of Chicago, Department of Linguistics Ph.D. program, September 2001-

present

BA in Cultural Linguistics (Independent Student-Designed Major), (summa cum laude,

valedictorian) St. Mary’s College of Maryland, May 2001

 

 

Awards and Fellowships

 

Doolittle-Harrison Fellowship, 2007

Fuerstenberg Fellowship, 2006-2007

Summer FLAS (Title VI) Fellowship for Aymara, 2005

Summer FLAS (Title VI) Fellowship for Mandarin Chinese, 2004

Century Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2001-2006

Dean's Distinguished University Fellowship, Ohio State University, 2001 (declined)

Department of Foreign Language Book Award, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 2001

Phi Beta Kappa, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 2000

St. Mary’s Scholar, 2000, 2001

Dean’s List, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 1997-2001

France-Russell Fellowship, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 1997-2001

 

 

Presentations

 

“Ish: A new case of antigrammaticalization,” LSA 2007

 

 

Teaching Experience

 

Colonial Englishes: Similarities and Differences, Spring 2006

Writing Systems: Linguistic Issues, Winter 2006

 

Teaching assistant for Language and Globalization, Spring 2005

Teaching assistant for Morphology, Spring 2005

Teaching assistant for Introduction to Linguistics 1 (Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics), Fall 2003

 

Completed training course: Pedagogies of Writing, Spring 2004

Participated in the University of Chicago Center for Teaching and Learning seminars:

Race in the Classroom, Effective Techniques Used by Successful Teachers, Grading and Responding to Students’ Writing, Course Design, Conversations on Teaching: Lecturing, Discussion

 

 

Service

 

Served on abstract reading committees for the Chicago Linguistic Society, 2002-2007

 

 

Languages

 

English (native speaker)

French: good reading knowledge (6 years)

Spanish (2 years)

Mandarin Chinese (2 years)

 

Varying degrees of familiarity with: German, Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, Meskwaki (Fox), Aymara