Institute

• Chair, Committee On Discipline (2014-2018)

• Housemaster, Maseeh Hall (2011-present)

• Housemaster, Phoenix Group (2008- 2011)

• Office of Minority Education, Advisory Committee (2010-present)

• DUE Faculty Advisory Committee (2009-2018)

• S^3, Faculty Advisory Committee (2010-2017)

• Institute Committee on Privacy (2009-2018)

• Co-Chair, Committee on Family and Work (with R. Simpson; 2006-2009)

• Chair, Subcommittee on the Communication Requirement (2005-2008)

• Co- chair, Subcommittee on the Communications Requirement (with Paul Penfield; 2001-2005)

• Committee on Educational Technology (1999-2001)

• Chair, Committee on Undergraduate Programs (CUP; 1997-2000)

• Chair, Committee on Curricula (COC; 1993-1994)

• Committee on Curricula (COC; Fall, 1992)

• Chair, Committee on the Undergraduate Writing Requirement (1990-1992)

• Committee on International Issues at MIT (1987-88)

• Committee on the Undergraduate Writing Requirement (1982-1992)

• Committee on Family and Work Issues (1988-1989)

• Freshman Advisor (1988-1989, 1992-1993)

School of Humanities, Arts and Social Science

• HOC (2005-2008)

• HOC Plus (2005)

• HASS-D Committee (1988)

• Equal Opportunity Committee (1991-1993)

Department of Linguistics and Philosophy,
Linguistics Section

• Chair, Search Experimental Linguistics (2004)

• Committee on the development of 24.900 (2002-2009)

• Tenure Committee for Michel DeGraff, Member (2002-2003)

• Graduate presentations and job readiness committee, member (2001-present)

Foreign Languages & Literatures Section

• Lecturers' Development Committee (1992-1996)

• Pedagogy and Technology Committee Chair (1991-1992)

• Writing Requirement Coordinator (1988-2000)

• UROP Coordinator (1986-1996)

• ESL Coordinator (1981-1996)

• ESL Concentration Advisor (1982-1995)

Undergraduate Research Opportunities - Student Supervision

I have supervised approximately 150 undergraduate students in UROPs from 1982-present. These include:

• Claire Foley, Ph.D. Linguistics (Cornell University),

• Maria Babyonyshev, Ph.D. Linguistics (MIT)

• Saadia Hussain, MS Computer Science (MIT and Brown University),

• Edward Munnich (University of Delaware),

• Susanna Reynolds (PhD Princeton University) among many others who pursued advanced degrees in Linguistics or related areas of research.

Other Graduate Student Research Supervision

• Tara K. MacAllister, committee member (2005-2008)

• Cristina Cuervo (MEG: Bilingualsim; 2002-2004)

• Heejeong Ko (2002-2004)

• John Kim (BCS; 1987-1989)

• Susanna Reynolds, Member, MS thesis (BCS; 1999-2001)

• Donna Lardiere (Boston University) (G) Spring 1989

Thesis Committees

• Allsion Adler, Chair, PhD committee (2005-2007)

• Xiaomin Mou, PhD committee member (2004-2010)

• Tania Ionin, Member, Ph.D committee (BCS) (2002-2004)

• Member, PhD committee, Shaomin Wang (Course 1; 2003-2004)

• Chair, Senior Thesis Committee for Wee Teng Hoon, Spring 1987.

• Chair, MS Thesis Committee for Peter Schindler, Fall, 1987.

• Member, MA Thesis Committee for Sigal Uziel, Spring, 1991.

• Chair, Senior Thesis Committee for Edward Munnich, Spring 1991.

• Chair, Senior Thesis Committee for Cashman Andrus, Spring, 1993.

Outside Thesis Committees

• Member, PhD committee, Susana Perales Haya, Universidad del Pais Vasco, 2004

• Chair, PhD committee, Silvana Pacheco, PURS/Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2005-present

• Member, PhD committee, Sujin Yang (Cornell University) 2005-present

• Member, PhD Committee, Marcela Schultz, Boston University, 2002-present

• Member, PhD committee, Luz Vasquez, 2003-2005

• Chair, PhD committee, Inna Vinnitskaya, UOttawa, 2001-present

• Member, Ph.D. Thesis Committee for Margaret Thomas, Linguistics Department, Harvard University, Spring 1988.

• Member, Ph.D. Thesis Committee for Sigal Uziel, Linguistics Department, Bar Ilan University, Israel, 1992.

• Member, Ph.D. Thesis Committee for Susan Kalt, Linguistics Dept., University of Southern California, 2000.

• Member, Ph.D. Thesis Committee for Christine Price, Psychology Dept., Lesley College, 2001-2003