About our Faculty

Our renowned faculty have received many of the most prestigious and competitive fellowships and awards in their fields, including numerous Guggenheim Fellowships. Our faculty also regularly receive UC President’s Fellowships, competing against outstanding faculty from all UC campuses. We are especially proud to have recruited numerous UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship recipients into tenure-track positions.

Many have won major book prizes in their fields and several have held presidencies and other leadership positions in national and international societies and organizations, such as the Linguistic Society of America and the American Academy of Religion.