Anahita Hoose, recent graduate of the Program in Indo-European Studies, has joined the faculty of the Center for the Study of Religion in July 2022 as Lecturer in Jainism and South Asian Religions.

Anthony Yates (currently at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich) will be joining the faculty of the Program in Indo-European Studies and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures in January 2023 (as Assistant Professor), subject to final approval by the Vice Chancellor of Academic Personnel.

Professor Stephanie Jamison will be giving a talk “What Would a Vedic Lawcode Look Like?” as part of the Georg Bühler Lecture Series at the Austrian Academy of Sciences on Tuesday, May 24 at 8:00 AM PDT (5:00 PM CET). The online lecture may be followed via live stream; to register, please go to: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/veranstaltungen/anmeldung/buehler-lectures-vedic-lawcode….

Program in Indo-European Studies graduate students Elisa Migliaretti and Paolo Sabattini have both won awards for outstanding Master’s theses in Indo-European Studies. Elisa Migliaretti received second place with her thesis “I composti pindarici: il caso degli hapax legomena nelle Pitiche” (“Pindaric Compounds: the Case of Hapax Legomena in the Pythians”; submitted at Milan), and Paolo…

The 232nd annual meeting of the American Oriental Society (AOS 232) is on March 18–March 21, 2022. The program features many talks by UCLA linguists: John Clayton: The Lengthening of *i, *u > ī, ū  / __rC in Sanskrit Ian Hollenbaugh (alum, now at Washington University): Primary Root Aorists in Vedic: A tezzi Principle? Anahita Hoose:…

Associate Professor David Goldstein will be giving an invited talk at the UC Berkeley Linguistics Colloquium on 9 November. The talk is entitled “Correlated grammaticalization: The rise of articles in Indo-European.” See here for more details.

Associate Professor David Goldstein has published a new article “Indo-European phylogenetics with R: A tutorial introduction” in Indo-European Linguistics. The article may be found here. 2020. Indo-European phylogenetics with R: A tutorial introduction, Indo-European Linguistics 8.1:1–71

Associate Professor David Goldstein has published a new article “Homeric-φι(ν) is an oblique case marker” in the Transactions of the Philological Society. The article may be found here. 2020. Homeric-φι(ν) is an oblique case marker. Transactions of the Philological Society 118:1–33

As of April 2021, Jesse Lundquist (Ph.D. 2017, Program in Indo-European Studies; currently Postdoctoral scholar, Wolfson College, Oxford, and Newton International Fellow of the British Academy) will be joining the Program as Lecturer in Indo-European Studies. See the Faculty page for more information about Jesse.