PhD Studentship in Linguistics at University of New Mexico

The Department of Linguistics at The University of New Mexico is proud toannounce the Joseph H. Greenberg Fellowship, endowed by a generous bequest fromthe late Selma Greenberg. The fellowship will provide a stipend and a part-timeresearch assistantship to an outstanding doctoral student for two years. Thedepartment will provide a further two years of support through a full-timeteaching assistantship. The fellowship and the teaching assistantship will alsoprovide six to nine hours of graduate tuition each fall and spring semester, aswell as graduate health insurance coverage.

All new applicants to the PhD program in Linguistics at UNM will be considered;there is no separate fellowship application form. Applications to the PhD program in Linguistics at UNM are welcomed from students with an MA degree inLinguistics or the equivalent. The department specializes in functionalist linguistics, Native American language documentation and revitalization(especially Navajo and other indigenous languages of the American Southwest),and signed language linguistics.

Links to online application forms can be found at:http://www.unm. edu/~linguist/phdadmit. html

Domestic Applicants should go to: http://www.unm. edu/~grad

International Applicants should go to: http://www.unm. edu/admissions/guidelines/ international. html.

Applications must be submitted by January 15th for consideration for theGreenberg Fellowship. For further information, please email lingasst@unm. edu or contact the Department of Linguistics at (+1) (505)-277-6353.
Application Deadline: 15-Jan-2009
Web Address for Applications: http://www.unm. edu/~grad
Contact Information:Ms Jessica Slocum

lingasst@unm.edu

Phone:505-277- 6353

Fax:505-277- 6355