The Linguistic Society of America has announced that two University of Michigan faculty are among 10 of the field’s leading linguists named to its newest class of fellows. They are: Andries Coetzee, associate professor of linguistics, Department of Linguistics, LSA; and Robin Queen, Arthur F. Thurnau professor, professor of Germanic languages and literatures, chair of the Department of Linguistics, professor of linguistics and professor of English language and literature, LSA. The society’s fellows are recognized annually for their distinguished contributions to the discipline. They will be inducted at the society’s annual meeting in January in Portland, Oregon.
Ronald F. Inglehart, Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor of Democracy, Democratization and Human Rights, professor of political science, LSA, and research professor, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research, has won the 2014 Helen Dinerman Award of the World Association for Public Opinion Research. It is an international professional association of researchers from more than 60 countries. This award is presented annually to individuals who have made significant contributions to survey research methodology. Inglehart also is scientific adviser to the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and founding president of the World Values Survey.
L. Rowell Huesmann has received the John Paul Scott Award for Lifetime Contributions to Aggression Research from the International Society for Research on Aggression. Huesmann is the Amos N. Tversky Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Communication Studies and director of the Aggression Research Program in the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research. His research focuses on understanding the psychological foundations of aggressive behavior and in particular on understanding how the observations of others behaving violently influences the development of a youth’s aggressive and violent behavior and produces a contagion of violence.
