CURRICULUM VITAE Matti Miestamo February 7, 2013 Current ...

CURRICULUM VITAE
Matti Miestamo
February 7, 2013
Current position
• Professor of General Linguistics, Stockholm University, 2011–.
Head of the Section for General Linguistics, 2012–.
Academic degrees and titles
• Docent (adjunct professor) in General Linguistics, University of Helsinki, 2008.
• Ph.D., General Linguistics, University of Helsinki, 2003.
• MA, General Linguistics, University of Turku, 1997.
• BA, General Linguistics, University of Turku, 1996.
• Licence (BA), Sciences du Langage, University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, 1995.
Previous employment in academia
• Research fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, 08/2006–08/2011
(funded by the Academy of Finland 01/2007–12/2009).
• Visiting postdoctoral researcher, University of Antwerp, Department of Linguistcs, Centre
for Grammar, Cognition and Typology, 11/2005–04/2006.
• Postdoctoral researcher, Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki,
Academy of Finland project The Grammatical Complexity of Natural Languages,
01/2003–07/2006.
Scholarly honours and prizes
• Joseph Greenberg Award, Association for Linguistic Typology, 2005.
• Burgen Scholar, Academia Europaea, 2004.
Research allocations and grants during the last five years
• Descriptive grammar of Skolt Saami: A preparatory documentation project, 55,000 € from
the Finnish Cultural Foundation (Huhtamäki Fund), 2011.
• Postdoctoral researcher’s project, 180.000 € from the Academy of Finland, 2006.
Membership in editorial boards and editorship of journals and series
• Nordic Journal of Linguistics, Associate editor, 2012–.
• COLLeGIUM: Studies across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Science, member
of Board of Consulting Editors, 2012–.
• Virittäjä, Member of Editorial board, 2012–.
• Uralica Helsingiensia, member of Advisory Editorial Board, 2009–.
• SKY Journal of Linguistics, member of Advisory Editorial Board, 2006–.
• Co-editor of SKY Journal of Linguistics, 1997–1999.
The most important academic positions of trust
• Member of the Board of the Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, 2012–.
• Member of the Executive board of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
(representative of the staff), 2010–2011.
• Board member of the Linguistic Association of Finland, 1997–2003.
• Secretary of the Linguistic Association of Finland, 1999–2000.
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Courses taught
• Linguistic theory and method, Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics, 2012.
• Semantics, Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics, 2012.
• Language typology, Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics, 2011, 2012.
• Language in use, Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics, 2011.
• Introduction to the World's Languages, University of Helsinki, Department of General
Linguistics, 2002–2004, 2008, 2010.
• Language Complexity, University of Helsinki, Department of General Linguistics, 2009.
• Finnish in a Typological Perspective, University of Mainz, Department of Northern
European and Baltic Languages and Cultures, 2007.
• Introduction to Language Typology, University of Helsinki, Department of General
Linguistics, 2002–2005.
• Introduction to the World's Languages and Language Typology, University of Helsinki,
Department of General Linguistics, 2001.
• Course on negation, University of Helsinki, Department of General Linguistics, 1998.
Pedagogical training
• Basic course in university pedagogy, University of Helsinki, 2003.
• Supervision of research – theory and practice, Stockholm University, 2012.
Supervision of doctoral students
• Member of the pool of supervisors in the sub-programme Grammar and Theory of
Language of the Finnish linguistics graduate school Langnet.
• Supervision of two completed doctoral theses at the University of Helsinki, Department of
Linguistics.
• Supervision of two doctoral students at Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics.
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