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THE PROGRAM’S STUDENTS

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CANDIDATES IN PHILOSOPHY, 2007–2008

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

  • Andrew Byrd
     
    Education
    B.A. in Linguistics, University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia)
    Visiting Student, Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
    Indo-European Summer School, Freie Universität Berlin
    Linguistic Society of America Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
    Leiden Summer School in Indo-European Linguistics, 31 July – 11 August 2006 (Leiden University, Netherlands)
    Research interests
    Indo-European morphology and phonology
    Classical Armenian
    Celtic languages and linguistics, especially Old Irish
    Recent Work
    “Return to Dative anmaimm.” Ériu [forthcoming].
    “The Origins of the Long Dative Singular of Neuter n-Stems in Old Irish.” Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. 6 November 2004, University of California, Los Angeles.
    Activities/Awards
    Linguistic Society of America Institute Fellowship, 2005
    Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship for Study in Pavia, Italy
    Co-Chair, Annual Indo-European Conference Student Organizing Committee, 2005–2006
  • Randall Gordon
     
    Education
    B.A. in Liberal Arts, Ambassador University (Pasadena, California)
    Research interests
    Celtic linguistics & philology
    Germanic linguistics & philology
    Dissertation title/description
    Historical Development of the Celtic Verbal Noun
    Joseph F. Nagy, Advisor
    Activities/Awards
    Webmaster (2006–present)
    Publications Coordinator, Annual Indo-European Conference Student Organizing Committee, 2006–present
  • Moss Pike
     
    Education
    B.S. in Engineering Physics, Cornell University (Ithaca, New York)
    Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Classics, University of California, Los Angeles
    M.A. in Classics, University of California, Los Angeles
    Research interests
    Greek and Latin literature and linguistics
    Early Roman literature and Republican history
    Ancient comedy
    Curse language and ritual
    Sabellian languages and culture
    Indo-European derivational morphology
    Dissertation title/description
    Latin -tās and -tūs and Related Forms
    Brent Vine, Advisor
    Recent work
    “Latin salūs ‘health’.” East Coast Indo-European Conference. 16 June 2007, New Haven, Connecticut.
    “Mycenaean qe-te-jo and the Greek verbal adjective in -τέον.” East Coast Indo-European Conference. 21 June 2006, Columbus, Ohio.
    “Ovid and His Oral Poetry: Intertextual Relations between Ovid and Oscan Defixiones.” American Philological Association Annual Meeting. 9 January 2005, Boston, Massachusetts.
    “Did Latin Have a Long-Vowel Perfect clēpī Next to clepsit ?” American Philological Association Annual Meeting. 3 January 2004, San Francisco, California.
    “The Indo-European Long-Vowel Preterite: New Latin Evidence.” International Conference on Historical Linguistics. 14 August 2003, Copenhagen, Denmark.
    Activities/Awards
    Profiled in Graduate Quarterly 16.2 (Winter 2007): 20-21, published by the UCLA Graduate Division
    OID Teach2Write Coordinator 2006-2007
    UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award for a Teaching Assistant, 2006
    UCLA Department of Classics Teaching Assistant Coordinator, 2005–2007
    Livingston Fellowship, UCLA Department of Classics
    Webmaster and developer, Brent Vine’s OLat, an online source for archaic Latin inscriptions
    Member, Annual Indo-European Conference Student Organizing Committee (Co-Chair of the Committee, 2005–2006)

THE PROGRAM’S STUDENTS, 2007–2008

The following students are working towards completing Program requirements leading to the Candidate in Philosophy (C.Phil.) degree and are enrolled during the 2007-2008 academic year.

  • Sherrylyn Branchaw
     
    Education
    B.A. in Linguistics, University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona)
    B.A. in Classics (Latin option), University of Arizona
    B.S. in Mathematics (Computer Science option), University of Arizona
    Leiden Summer School in Indo-European Linguistics, 31 July – 11 August 2006 (Leiden University, Netherlands)
    Research interests
    History of English
    Comparative mythology
    Classical languages and literature
    Recent Work
    “Pwyll and Puruṣamedha : Human Sacrifice in the Mabinogi.” Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. 3 November 2007, Los Angeles, California.
    “Survival of the Strongest: Strong Verb Inflection from Old English to Modern.” Studies in the History of the English Language Conference. 5 October 2007, Athens, Georgia.
    Activities/Awards
    Member, Annual Indo-European Conference Student Organizing Committee
    Representative of the Program to the Humanities Council, 2005–2006
    Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) Undergraduate Book Award
  • 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
    Activities/Awards
    Representative of the Program to the Humanities Council, 2006-07
    Member, Annual Indo-European Conference Student Organizing Committee
  • Dieter Gunkel
    Education
    B.A. in Literary Studies, Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vermont)
    Indo-European Summer School, Freie Universität Berlin
    Linguistic Society of America Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
    Leiden Summer School in Indo-European Linguistics, 31 July – 11 August 2006 (Leiden University, Netherlands)
    Upper Level Greek, CUNY and Brooklyn College Latin/Greek Institute
    Research interests
    Indo-European linguistics
    Recent work
    “-αδ- -αρο-: A Study in Greek and Proto-Indo-European Word Formation.” East Coast Indo-European Conference. 16 June 2007, New Haven, Connecticut.
    “Greek -αρο-: 'Dirty' Words and Derivational Morphology.” American Philological Association Annual Meeting. 5 January 2007, San Diego, California.
    Activities/Awards
    Featured in “Great Futures for the College: Ensuring Excellence for Indo-European Studies”, UCLA College Report 3 (Winter 2005): 30.
    Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship for Study in Vienna, Austria
    Graduate Student Representative, Program steering committee
    Co-Chair, Annual Indo-European Conference Student Organizing Committee, 2007
  • 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“ (Bachelor's 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“
  • Anna Pagé
    Education
    B.A. Celtic Studies, Saint Francis Xavier University (Antigonish, Nova Scotia)
    M.Sc. Celtic Studies, University of Edinburgh, (Edinburgh, Scotland)
    Undergraduate training in Linguistics and Classics, Concordia University (Montreal, Québec)
    M.A. Special Individualized Program (Linguistics), Concordia University (Montreal, Québec)
    Research interests
    Indo-European syntax and poetics
    Old Irish syntax and poetics
    Activities/Awards
    FQRSC (Le Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture) – Bourse de doctorat en recherche
  • 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” (Bachelor’s 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 Dieter Gunkel.

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