sarah e. murray

curriculum vitae

(in .pdf)

education

2004 - present PhD in Linguistics, Certificate in Cognitive Science; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Advisor: Maria Bittner
2003 - 2004 MA in Linguistics; Wayne State University
Advisor: Ljiljana Progovac
1999 - 2003 BA in Linguistics and Philosophy, summa cum laude; Wayne State University



grants & awards

2008 - 2009 P.E.O. Scholar Award
Merit Award
2007 - 2008 Graduate School Fellowship
Department of Linguistics/Graduate School, New Brunswick; Rutgers University
2007 Linguistic Fieldwork Grant: Fieldwork on Cheyenne
Endangered Language Fund
2007 Pre-dissertaion Award: Fieldwork on Cheyenne
The Graduate School, New Brunswick; Rutgers University
2007 Conference Travel Award: Sinn und Bedeutung 12 (Oslo)
The Graduate School, New Brunswick; Rutgers University
2006 Travel Grant: European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (University of Malaga, Spain)
Department of Linguistics; Rutgers University
2006 Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research: Fieldwork on Cheyenne
American Philosophical Society
2006 Travel Grant: LREC 2006, Networking the development of language resources for African languages Workshop
National Science Foundation Grant BCS-0523102, PI: Ken Safir
2004 - 2005 Graduate School Fellowship
Department of Linguistics/Graduate School, New Brunswick; Rutgers University



fieldwork

2008 Cheyenne; Northern Cheyenne Reservation, MT: 6 weeks
2007 Cheyenne; Northern Cheyenne Reservation, MT: 6 weeks
2006 Cheyenne; Northern Cheyenne Reservation, MT: 2 weeks
2004 Ottawa; Field Methods Course: One Semester



publications

2008 Reflexivity and Reciprocity with(out) Underspecification. In Grönn, Atle (ed.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 12. Oslo: University of Oslo, ILOS. (.pdf)
2007 Dynamics of Reflexivity and Reciprocity. In Aloni, Maria, Paul Dekker, and Floris Roelofsen (eds.), Proceedings of the Sixteenth Amsterdam Colloquium, pp. 157--162. Amsterdam: Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation. (.pdf)
2006 The African Anaphora Project. In: Workshop Proceedings, Networking the Development of Language Resources for African Languages. LREC 2006; Genoa, Italy. With Ken Safir, Andrei Anghelescu, and Jessica Rett.




masters thesis

2004 ‘Truckdriver’ and ‘Scarecrow’ Compounds: A Unified Approach. Masters Thesis, Wayne State University



manuscripts

2007 Reflexivity and Reciprocity: From English to Cheyenne. Second Qualifying Paper, Rutgers.
2007 Selectivity and Voicing Assimilation. First Qualifying Paper, Rutgers.
2006 Remarks on Reportative Evidentials. Ms, Rutgers.



presentations

2007 Dynamics of Reflexivity and Reciprocity
Sixteenth Amsterdam Colloquium, Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, Amsterdam
2007 Reflexivity and Reciprocity with(out) Underspecification
Sinn und Bedeutung 12, University of Oslo/ILOS, Oslo
2007 Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality
Semantics Reading Group, Rutgers Cognitive Science Center, Rutgers, New Brunswick
2007 Reflexivity, Reciprocity, and Underspecification
Rutgers Linguistics Conference (RULing) 2, Rutgers, New Brunswick
2006 The African Anaphora Project (With Ken Safir, Andrei Anghelescu, and Jessica Rett)
Networking the Development of Language Resources for African Languages, LREC, Genoa
2006 Selective [voice] Faithfulness and Voicing Assimilation
HUMDRUM, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2006 Selective Faithfulness and Voicing Assimilation
Rutgers Linguistics Conference (RULing) 1, Rutgers, New Brunswick




research assistantships

2006 - 2007 The African Anaphora Project (website and database design, working with Shona consultant)
PI: Ken Safir
2002 - 2004 The LINGUIST List (Managing Editor, Jobs/Support Editor, E-MELD, programmer)
PIs: Tony Aristar and Helen Aristar-Dry



teaching

Fall 2008 - Spring 2009 Cognitive Science 201: Introduction to Cognitive Science
Summer 2008 Linguistics 201: Introduction to Linguistic Theory
Summer 2006 Linguistics 101: Introduction to the Study of Language
Spring 2006 Linguistics 101: Introduction to the Study of Language
TA for Roger Schwarzschild, two sections
Fall 2005 Linguistics 101: Introduction to the Study of Language
TA for Bruce Tesar, two sections
2003 Guest Lecture, Graduate Morphology class, Wayne State University



service

01/2008 - present Treasurer, Rutgers Graduate Student Association
2006 - present External Allocation Committee, Rutgers Graduate Student Association
2004 - 2007 Treasurer, Linguistics Graduate Student Association
2006, 2007 Rutgers Linguistics Conference (RULing) Organizing Committee
2004 - 2005 Graduate Student Computer Liaison
2004 - 2005 Reviewer, The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology. Cambridge University Press.
2003 - 2005 E-MELD School of Best Practice Web Development Team



scholarships & honors

2003 - present Phi Beta Kappa
1999 - 2003 Presidential Scholarship: Wayne State University



languages

native English
intermediate French, Spanish
research Cheyenne, Ottawa



programs & programming languages

advanced LaTeX, UNIX, HTML, CSS, CFML, Zope, Plone
basic Python, OTSoft, SQL, XML, Prolog, Scheme