Claire D Halpert

Contact Me

halpert@umn.edu
612-626-5400

Institute of Linguistics
S315 Elliott Hall

75 E River Parkway

Affiliations

• Linguistics, Institute of
• Cognitive Sciences, Center for
• Liberal Arts

Links

• website

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D: Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2012.

Specialties

• Syntax
• Prosody-syntax interface
• Linguistic field methods
• Case and agreement
• Bantu linguistics

Courses Taught

• LING 5105-6/8105-6 Field Methods in Linguistics I & II
• LING 4201 Syntax I
• LING 5201 Syntactic Theory I
• LING 4202 Syntax II
• LING 1705W World Englishes

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

• Director of Graduate Studies: 2016 - present
• Acting Institute Director: August 2020 - January 2021
• University Senate: CLA Faculty Senator , October 2019 - June 2022
• UMN African Studies Initiative Advisory Board: 2014 - 2019

Awards

• Academic Innovation Grant for Technology (LATIS), 2019 - 2020
• Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2017