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Name David Pesetsky
Email pesetsk usual-sign mit full-stop edu

Experience

  • 1988 - present

    Cambridge, MA

    Ferrari P. Ward Professor (1999-); Professor (1994-1999); Associate Professor (1988-1994)
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Section head (2011-2013); Department head (2013-2018)
  • 1983 - 1988

    Amherst, MA

    Assistant Professor (1983-1987); Associate Professor (1987-1988)
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • 1982 - 1983

    Los Angeles, CA

    Assistant Professor
    University of Southern California

Education

  • 1973 - 1977

    New Haven, CT

    B.A. summa cum laude
    Yale University
    Linguistics
  • 1977 - 1982

    Cambridge, MA

    PhD
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Linguistics
    • Advisor: Noam Chomsky
    • Committee: Noam Chomsky, Ken Hale, Morris Halle, and James Higginbotham

Academic honors

  • Professor honoris causa, University of Bucharest (2013)
  • Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (2012)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2010)
  • MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT (2005) — for ‘outstanding teachers of undergraduate students’
  • Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Educational Partnership Award (1998)
  • Graduate Student Council Graduate Teaching Award, MIT (1990 and 1993)
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Yale University (1977)