THIS PAST YEAR HAS ILLUMINATED the fragility and failures of work in new ways. The coronavirus pandemic resulted in layoffs and furloughs for millions around the world. Some have lost their jobs in struggling or shifting industries and don’t have the skills to explore other fields. Many essential workers—from health aides to grocery clerks—have been forced to make grim trade-offs between personal health and financial security. Unpredictable and stressful schedules, discriminatory and unfair organizational practices and procedures,...
The following members of our lab presented at the 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2021). The LSA was hosted on January 7-10, 2021 and was held virtually.
Shannon Bryant, "Evidence from Oromo on the typology of complementation strategies" (talk)
Josh Martin, "D-linking and the semantics of wh-in-situ" (poster)
For her abstract, Shannon received second place in...
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has named Henry Louis Gates Jr. the recipient of the Don M. Randel Award for Humanistic Studies. The award — which is being given for only the seventh time since it was established in 1975 — recognizes remarkable scholars whose work shapes our inner lives and our understanding of the world around us.
A prolific scholar and public intellectual, Gates’s...
Interested in communicating with postdocs in the Boston area? Join the Boston Postdoctoral Association Slack channel! You can start a discussion on the Harvard/HMS channel, or other channels such as international postdocs or advocacy. ...
Richard N. Cooper, the Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University, passed away on December 23, 2020, at age eighty-six. He was a longtime Weatherhead Center affiliate—as a Faculty Associate since 1981; on the executive committee from...
