Alumni

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Year	Name	Dissertation	Advisor	Current employment
2023	John Clayton	The Development of the Indo-European -wr̥-/-wen*-Heteroclites in Sanskrit and Beyond	Stephanie Jamison	Lecturer, Program of Indo-European Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
2023	Thomas Motter	Clausal relations at the interfaces: A study of Hittite correlatives at the intersection of syntax, semantics, and discourse	David Goldstein
2022	Teigo Onishi	Pronominal Clitics in Tocharian: A Study in the Morphology-Syntax Interface	David Goldstein & Hilda Koopman	Language Engineer, Amazon
2022	Anahita Hoose	Studies in Indo-Aryan Aspectual Systems	Stephanie Jamison	Lecturer in Jainism and South Asian Religions, University of California, Los Angeles
2021	Ian Hollenbaugh	Tense and aspect in Indo-European: A usage-based approach to the verbal systems of the R̥gveda and Homer	Stephanie Jamison	Assistant Professor of Arts & Sciences, Department of Classics and Program of Linguistics, Washington University in St. Louis
2020 (MA)	Benjamin Niedzielski
2017	Toru Minamimoto	Subordinators and Supradialectal Formulas in the Dialectal Inscriptions from Mainland Greece (Excluding Attica)	Brent Vine	Assistant for Student Affairs, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University; Part-Time Lecturer, Kyoto University, Kindai University, Osaka Shoin Women's University, and Osaka Gakuin University; as of April 1, 2020: Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University
2017	Éloïse Lemay	Studies in Merovingian Latin Epigraphy and Documents	Brent Vine	Head Computational Linguist at App Orchid Enterprise AI
2017	Anthony Yates	The Diachrony of Lexical Accent Systems: Studies in Hittite, Indo-European, and Cupeño Prosody	Craig Melchert	Assistant Professor, Program in Indo-European Studies & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA
2017	Jesse Lundquist	Studies in the Prehistory of Greek Epic	Brent Vine	Postdoctoral scholar, Wolfson College, Oxford; as of April 2021: Lecturer in Indo-European Studies, UCLA
2015	Kaspars Ozoliņš	Revisiting Proto-Indo-European Schwebeablaut	Craig Melchert	Research Associate in Old Testament at Tyndale House
2015	Elizabeth Thornton	Roman Jakobson's Rig Veda: On the Form and Function of Patterns of Lexical and Grammatical Repetition	Stephanie Jamison	Tenure-track Assistant Professorship, Los Angeles Valley College
2015	Mattyas Huggard	Wh-words in Hittite: A Study in Syntax-Semantics and Syntax-Phonology Interfaces	Craig Melchert	Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Concordia University
2015	Ryan Sandell	Productivity in Historical Linguistics: Computational Perspectives on Word-Formation in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit	Brent Vine	Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Lehrstuhl für Historische und IndogermanischeSprachwissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2015	Jessica DeLisi	Diachronic Studies in Armenian Prosody and Epenthesis	H. Craig Melchert	World Languages Department, Milken Community Schools; Los Angeles, CA
2015	Bernhard Koller	Studies in Tocharian Phonology above the Word-Level	H. Craig Melchert	Post Doctoral Researcher, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, AustrianAcademy of Sciences
2015	Timothy Dempsey	Verbal Reduplication in Anatolian	H. Craig Melchert
2015	Chiara Bozzone	A Grammar of Homeric Constructions	Brent Vine	Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Lehrstuhl für Historische und IndogermanischeSprachwissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2014	Anna Pagé	Birth Narratives in Indo-European Mythology	Joseph F. Nagy	Lecturer, Linguistics Department, University of Vienna
2014	Christina Skelton	A Computational Approach to the History of the Greek Dialects	Brent Vine	University Affiliate, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin
2012	Randall Gordon	Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun	Joseph F. Nagy
2012	Moss Pike	Latin -tās and Related Forms	Brent Vine	Technology Consultant at Knowing Technologies
2010	Sherrylyn Branchaw	Survival of the Strongest: Strong Verbs in the History of English	Donka Minkova	Principal Database Administrator at Campaign Monitor
2010	Dieter Gunkel	Studies in Greek and Vedic Prosody, Morphology, and Meter	Brent Vine	Associate Professor of Historical Linguistics, Department of Classical Studies, University of Richmond
2010	Andrew Byrd	Reconstructing Indo-European Syllabification	H. Craig Melchert	Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of Kentucky
2008	Kanehiro Nishimura	Vowel Reduction and Deletion in Italic: Effects of Stress	Brent Vine	Associate Professor, Institute of Liberal Arts and Science, Kanazawa University
2007	Natalie Operstein	Pre-Vocalization: Phonetics and Phonology of Consonant-Triggered Glide Epenthesis	Vyacheslav V. Ivanov	Instructor, UCLA Extension
2006	Aurelijus Vijūnas	The Indo-European Primary t-Stems	Brent Vine	Professor, English Department, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
2006	Angelo Mercado	The Latin Saturnian and Italic Verse	Brent Vine	Professor of Classics, Grinnell College; Chair, Department of Classics; Chair, Linguistics Concentration
2004	Fabrice Cavoto	Les désinences personnelles en indo-européen	Brent Vine	Head of Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse at Coop Danmark
2001	Christopher Wilhelm	The Origin and Development of Adpositions and Adpositional Phrases in the Indo-European Languages	Vyacheslav V. Ivanov	Dr. Richard A. Vladovic Harbor Teacher Preparation Academy; Wilmington, CA
1999	Mary L. Wilson	The Origin and Function of Female Divinity in Pre-Christian Germanic Europe	Christopher Stevens	Lecturer, Department of History, San Jose State University
1995	Mona D. Reddick	A Manu Episode from the Yajur Veda with a Motif Index of Brahmana Stories	Hanns-Peter Schmidt	Professor, Anthropology Department, Los Angeles Harbor College
1993	Patrick McReynolds	Before Ymir: Primal Cosmogony in Indo-European Myth	Jaan Puhvel
1993	Cheryl Steets	The Sun Maiden’s Wedding: An Indo-European Sunrise/Sunset Myth	Hanns-Peter Schmidt	Chief Operating Officer at Construct-X
1993	Heidi Waltz	Non-Nominative Psych-Verb Syntax in English and German: Language Change and Variation	Christopher Stevens	Lecturer in Linguistics and German, Department of Comparative Literature and Languages, UC Riverside
1992	Georgios Giannakis	Studies in the Syntax and Semantics of the Reduplicated Presents in Homeric Greek and Indo-European	Raimo Anttila	Professor of Historical and Indo-European Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, School of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
1992	Jeffrey L. Falco	The Malediction in Indo-European Tradition	Jaan Puhvel
1989	† Mark R. Stefanovich	The Archaeology of Ethnicity: Reification, Continuity and Interpretation	Marija Gimbutas	Professor (Emeritus), Department of History and Civilizations, American University in Bulgaria
1989	Karlene Jones-Bley	The Earliest Indo-European Burial Tradition in Neolithic Ireland	Marija Gimbutas	Assistant Researcher, Program in Indo-European Studies, UCLA
1988	Deborah W. Anderson	Time in Indo-European: “Before” and “After,” “Past” and “Future”: A Linguistic Study of the Spatio-Temporal Uses of PIE pro apo epi and opi	Jaan Puhvel	Researcher (runs Script Encoding Initiative Project), Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
1987	Leigh J. Hansen	Indo-European Views of Death and the Afterlife as Determined from Archaeological, Mythological, and Linguistic Sources	Jaan Puhvel	Marlborough School, Emerita
1986	Angela Della Volpe	Urbs and Hillfort Nomenclature in Indo-European	Raimo Anttila	Professor of Linguistics, Department of English, Comparative Literature and Linguistics, CSU Fullerton
1985	David M. Weeks	Hittite Vocabulary: An Anatolian Appendix to Buck’s Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages	Jaan Puhvel	Technical Writer at Active Club Solutions, Inc.
1984	Warren A. Brewer	Indo-European Studies in Chattels Terminology	Bengt Löfstedt	Linguistic Atlas of Taiwan Project (Retired)
1983	Susan N. Skomal	Wealth Distribution as a Measure of Prehistoric Change: Chalcolithic to Copper Age Cultures in Hungary	Marija Gimbutas
1980	†Jan W. Pauw	The Dual Number in Indo-European: A Two Stage Development
1979	Martin E. Huld	An Etymological Glossary of Selected Albanian Items		Professor Emeritus, Department of English, CSU Long Beach
1978	Miriam Robbins Dexter	Indo-European Female Figures	Jaan Puhvel	Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
1978	Steven T. O’Brien	The Mortuary Practices of the Late Neolithic Peoples of Central Europe: A Study of Social Organization
1975	James P. Mallory	The Indo-European Homeland Problem: The Logic of the Inquiry	Marija Gimbutas	Professor Emeritus, Queen's University, Belfast. Archaeologist and Editior of the Journal of Indo-European Studies and Emania: Bulletin of the Navan Research Group
1975	†Dorothea Kenny	Cernunnos
1973	Robert L. Fisher	Gender Variation in Indo-European	Jaan Puhvel	Coordinator, Bethune College Writing Centre (Recently Retired)
1973	†Shan M. M. Winn	The Signs of the Vinča Culture: An Internal Analysis: Their Role, Chronology and Independence from Mesopotamia
1973	†John F. Vigorita	Indo-European Comparative Metrics	Jaan Puhvel
1972	†John A. C. Greppin	Initial Vowel and Aspiration in Classical Armenian
1971	Dorothy Disterheft	The Syntax of the Infinitive in Indo-European: Evidence from Indo-Iranian, Celtic, and Hittite	Patrick K. Ford	Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of South Carolina
1970	†Otto J. I. von Sadovszky	The Fish and the Prop: A Study in Semantic Reconstruction