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Keren Rice

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Linguistics

  • Professor Emeritus/Emerita
    Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Linguistics
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  • University of Toronto, Dept of LInguisitics, Sidney Smith Hall, Room 4075, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G3, Canada

BIO

Dr. Rice is a professor of linguistics and Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Initiatives at the University of Toronto. She has received several prestigious awards throughout her career and became an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2014 for her contributions as a linguist and scholar. She has made contributions to the areas of theoretical phonology, theoretical morphology, language description, and community-academy linguistics. She focuses on the study of Athabaskan languages of northern Canada. Her book A Grammar of Slave (1989) was awarded the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award from the Linguistic Society of America for the best book of the year.

She currently serves as chair of the Department of Linguistics, and she was the founding director of the Aboriginal Studies program at the University of Toronto. She served as editor of the journal International Journal of American Linguistics for thirteen years, and she has served as president of both the Canadian Linguistic Association and the Linguistic Society of America; she is president-elect of Section Z of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

She is University Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto, and the recipient of the Killam Prize and the Molson Prize, as well as an Officer of the Order of Canada and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2015 she was both elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and was awarded the Pierre Chauveau Medal of the Royal Society of Canada.

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DEGREES

  • PhD
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada1976
  • MA
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada1972
  • BA
    Cornell University, Ithaca, United States

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • Chipewyan; Dene Suline

AVAILABILITY

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision
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