Institution/Organization: University of Kansas
Department: Linguistics
Web Address: https://linguistics.ku.edu/

Level: PhD

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics; Syntax, Semantics, Field Linguistics, Language Documentation, Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition

Description:

The University of Kansas (KU) Linguistics Department has several PhD fellowships that will be available in the 2025-2026 academic year. All students who are admitted to the PhD program are awarded a 5-year funding package that covers all tuition-related expenses, provides a stipend, and includes eligibility for university-subsidized health insurance. Funding is provided through GTA and GRA positions. All applicants to the program will be automatically considered for these awards. In addition, research funds are available for all PhD students to support research-related costs such as travel and participant payments.

About Linguistics at the University of Kansas
The Linguistics Department at KU has undergone significant changes in the past decade to position itself as a unique program that marries linguistic theory with experimental research. We have particular strengths in experimental phonetics and phonology, first and second language acquisition, developmental psycholinguistics, second language psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, the cognitive neuroscience of language, linguistic fieldwork, and theoretical syntax and semantics. Our faculty members and graduate students study a broad range of languages including understudied language varieties in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The department has six active research labs, which have all successfully competed for external funding and provide support for graduate studies. The department has both head-mounted and remote eye trackers, an EEG laboratory, and on the KU medical center campus, cortical MEG, fetal MEG and MRI systems.

Application Deadline: 01-Dec-2024

Web Address for Applications: https://linguistics.ku.edu/graduate-admissions

Contact Information:
Andrew McKenzie, Director of Graduate Studies: [email protected]
Alec Graham, Graduate Program Coordinator: [email protected]