Amanda Rysling (PhD 2017) reports:

UMass Linguistics alumnus John (Jack) Duff (B.A. 2018, Linguistics & Psychology and Classical Languages) has just accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in psycholinguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. While he was at UMass, Jack worked as a research assistant for John Kingston in phonetics, for Lyn Frazier and Chuck Clifton in sentence processing, and for Alice Harris in fieldwork on Caucasian languages. He then went to UC Santa Cruz for his Ph.D., where he worked on the processing of both sentences and discourses, both in English and in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec, in addition to other projects with the Santiago Laxopa Zapotec community. Since 2023, he has been a postdoctoral researcher on the European Research Council grant “Individualized Interaction in Discourse” at Saarland University. He’ll take up his position at UCLA for the 2025-26 school year. Congratulations, Jack!