Job Location: College Park, MD, USA
Web Address: http://linguistics.umd.edu
Job Title: Post-baccalaureate Research Assistant
Job Rank: Researcher

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics

Other Specialties: Syntax, Semantics, Phonology

Description:

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland is looking to fill up to 2 positions for post-baccalaureate researcher assistants. Starting date for all positions is late Summer or Fall 2025. Salary is competitive, with benefits included. The positions would be ideal for individuals with a BA or BS degree who are interested in gaining significant research experience in a very active research group as preparation for a research career. Applicants must already have permission to work in the US, or be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, and should have completed a BA or BS degree by the time of appointment. The ability to interact comfortably with a wide variety of people (and machines) is a distinct advantage.

Details about these positions may be found here: https://linguistics.umd.edu/academic-programs/graduate/baggett

Application Deadline: 25-Apr-2025
Email Address for Applications: [email protected]
Web Address for Applications: https://linguistics.umd.edu/academic-programs/graduate/baggett
Application Instructions:
Applicants should submit:
—A cover letter. Outline your background experience and identify faculty mentors of interest (see list below). Applicants should feel free to indicate multiple mentors of interest, as co-mentorship is both possible and fruitful. Cover letters should be in pdf format (filename: lastname_cover.pdf).
—A current curriculum vitae, in pdf format (filename: lastname_cv.pdf)
—The names and email addresses of three potential referees (letters are not needed as part of the initial application). This information should be provided both on your CV and in the text of the email that contains these file attachments.
—A writing sample

The faculty mentors who are available this year are:

Omar Agha (semantics and pragmatics)
Valentine Hacquard (semantics, language acquisition)
Aron Hirsch (syntax, semantics, pragmatics, prosody, sentence processing)
Ellen Lau (psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics)
Jeff Lidz (syntax, language acquisition, psycholinguistics)
Kate Mooney (phonology, morphology)
Philip Resnik (as co-mentor: computational psycholinguistics, computational neurolinguistics)
Juan Uriagareka (syntax, biolinguistics)
Contact Information:
Dr. Andrea Zukowski
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 301-405-5388