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Degraff 20140729 Cv.Pdf Curriculum Vitae Michel DeGraff http://mit.edu/degraff http://haiti.mit.edu Department: MIT Linguistics and Philosophy Date: July 29, 2014 Date of Birth: 26 July 1963 Place of Birth: Port-au-Prince, Ha¨ıti Education Institution Degree Date University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. 1992 University of Pennsylvania M.Sc. 1988 City College of New York B.Sc. 1986 Title of Doctoral Thesis: Creole Grammars and the Acquisition of Syntax: The Case of Haitian Creole Grants, Fellowships and Honors Grant from National Science Foundation (NSF) 2013–2017 Project: “Krey`ol-based Cyberlearning for a New Perspective on the Teaching of STEM in local Languages” (co-PI: Dr. Vijay Kumar) $999,993 award from three NSF Programs: Linguistics, Cyberlearning and Research on Education & Learning. http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1248066 [One of this project’s recent outcomes, on April 17, 2013, is a landmark agreement between the Haitian State and our NSF-funded MIT-Haiti Initiative toward a (“thinking out of the box”) paradigm shift in order to improve Haiti’s education system. See section on Media Coverage on page 19.] Grant from Open Society Foundations 2012–2013 Project: “Improving Haiti’s STEM Education through Faculty Training and Curriculum Develop- ment” (co-PI: Dr. Vijay Kumar) $55,518 award. Grant from National Science Foundation (NSF) 2010–2013 Project: “Krey`ol-based based and technology-enhanced learning of reading, writing, math, and science in Haiti.” $200,000 award from NSF Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (Pro- gram: Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering). http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1049718 Research Fellowship, National Endowment of the Humanities 2002 Project: “Mismeasure of the Creole Speaker” Cooperative Research Fellowship,AT&TBellLaboratories 1986–1992 Professional Experience Academic Positions 2003–Present Associate Professor of Linguistics (with Tenure), MIT 1999–2003 Associate Professor of Linguistics (without Tenure), MIT 1996–1999 Assistant Professor of Linguistics, MIT 1993–1996 Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Michigan 1992–1993 Post-doctoral Fellow, Graduate Center of the City University of New York 1984 (September)– Research Assistant, Research Foundation of the City University of New 1985 (January) York Non-academic Positions 2012–2014 Consultant for Friends of Mat`enwa project Mother Tongue Books funded by World Vision. (See http://allchildrenreading.org/mother-tongue-books) 2013 Consultant for Haiti’s Ministry of National Education and for Research Triangle Institute International on USAid-funded literacy project Tout Timoun Ap Li (“All Children Reading”). 1998–2011 Volunteer interpreter (Haitian Creole / English) for Political Asy- lum/Immigration Representation (PAIR) Project, Boston MA 1996–2000 Consultant for the International Creole Language Workshop at Florida International University 1998 (July) Consultant for students at Haiti’s Facult´ede Linguistique Appliqu´ee 1995 (August) Consultant at the Creole Language Bureau of Haiti’s State Secretariat for Literacy 1986 (January–August) Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Labs., Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence 1985 (Summer) Research Intern, AT&T Bell Labs., Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence 1983 (Summer) and Actuarial Intern, The Equitable Life Assurance Society, New York NY. 1984 (Summer) Seminars, Colloquia, etc. Invited Seminars July 2009 “A course to end the course of Creole studies as we know it. ” (2 lectures). University of Campinas, Brazil. July–August 2005 “‘Creolization’ is acquisition” (6 lectures). Summer Institute of the Lin- guistics Society of America, MIT, Cambridge MA. July 2003 “Against Creole Exceptionalism.” International Workshop in Linguistics, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria. July 2003 “Creolization is Acquisition” (3 lectures). University of the Basque Coun- try, San Sebastian, Summer Course on “Language Contact: Linguistic and Neurocognitive Aspects” March 2003 “Creolization is Acquisition” (2 lectures). University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. August 2000 “Morphology in language contact, language change and language creation” (5 lectures). Universidade Federal Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. March 2000 “Theories of Language Contact” (5 lectures). Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. August 1995 “Introduction to Generative Syntax with Haitian Creole as principal database” (two-week seminar). Creole Language Bureau of Haiti’s State Secretariat for Literacy, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Invited Lectures April 2014 “The MIT-Haiti Initiative: Quality education in Science, Technology, En- gineering & Math for economic development in Haiti.” Haiti STEM Panel Discussion, Congregational Black Caucus Haiti Task Force, U.S. Congress, Washigton D.C. April 2014 “Language acquisition research in multi-disciplinary contexts: A discus- sion.” Workshop: Language acquisition research in multi-disciplinary con- texts, Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies, Wassenaar, The Nether- lands. September 2013 “Some notes on family values (or lack thereof) in Creole Studies.” Seminars on Languages, Literatures and Cultures, State University of New York, Albany NY. June 2013 “A hitchhiker’s guide to Cognitive Science via Creole studies.” Cogni- tive Science Lectures on Speech and Language, Music, Art, Reasoning and Thought, University of Amsterdam. Februrary 2013 “A null theory of Creole Formation.” Panel at Meeting of American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science Annual meeting: Seminar on the biology and evolution of human language—historical syntax. Boston MA, 15 February 2013. November 2012 “Phylogenetic magic in Creolistics: Language acquisition, feature values and family values.” Keynote lecture at Third Meeting on Formal Ap- proaches to Creole Studies III. (Work in collaboration with Trevor Bass and Robert Berwick.) University of Lisbon, November 2012. November 2012 “Men anpil, chay pa lou: Haitian Creole in quality education for all in Haiti.” Meeting of the Comit´eInternational des Etudes´ Cr´eoles, Mauritius, November 2012. November 2012 “Creole studies vs. Creole speakers: A dialogue on history, linguistics and (mis)education.” Linguistics Department, University of Massachusetts, Boston. September 2012 “Haitian Creole: From margin to center.” Conference on Haitian Creole: Myths, Realities and Prospects, Duke University. May 2012 “Knowing your Haitian students: Knowing yourselves.” Meeting of the Massachusetts Association of Teachers of Students of Speakers of Other Languages, Framingham MA. October2011 “Ki sa yon akademi krey`ol ka pote pou lek`ol gras a Teknoloji pou Enf`omasyon ak Kominikasyon?” (“How can a Creole Academy use In- formation and Communication Technology to help the school system?”) Symposium on the Haitian Creole Academy, State University of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. June 2011 “A cup half-full: Boundary Conditions on ICT-based education.” Haiti ICT in Education Summit, Education Innovation and Workforce Develop- ment Initiative, organized by Inter American Development Bank and Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. March 2011 “The role of Haitian Creole in the school system of Haiti” Grimes Confer- ence on Rebuilding Haiti, University of Florida. November 2010 “From bareness to bareness: Some notes on nominal phrases in Gungbe and Haitian Creole” (with Enoch Aboh), Conference on Formal Approaches to Creole Studies II, Centre for General linguistics, Zentrum f¨ur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin. November 2010 “Krey`ol for instruction and identity in Haiti” Panel on Language of In- struction and Identity in Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora, Harvard Univer- sity Graduate School of Education. October 2010 “From bareness to bareness: Some notes on nominal phrases in Gungbe and Haitian Creole” (with Enoch Aboh), Conference on Bantu, Chinese, Ro- mance Nouns and Noun Phrases Network, Leiden University, The Nether- lands. October2010 “Kote nou prale? Krey`ol in Haiti’s Culture Code” Meeting of the Na- tional Association of Minority Architects (Panel on post-earthquake Haiti organized by Black Design News Network), Boston MA. September 2010 “From bareness to bareness: Some notes on nominal phrases in Gungbe and Haitian Creole” (with Enoch Aboh), Conference on Language Contact and Change—Grammatical Structure Encounters the Fluidity of Language, Trondheim, Norway. May 2010 “Krey`ol in History,” Workshop on “Haiti in History,” Harvard Univer- sity, Center for History and Economics & Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics, Cambridge MA. February 2010 “The role of linguists and educators in rebuilding Haiti,” Starr Forum on “Rebuilding Haiti: A Panel Discussion with MIT Experts,” Center for International Studies, MIT. February 2010 “Krey`ol in the Reconstruction of Haiti,” PechaKucha Night for Haiti (Ar- chitecture for Humanity), MIT. July 2009 “Language Acquisition in Creolization and, thus, Language Change” 11th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference, University of Campinas, Brazil. May 2009 “Some notes on nominal phrases in Haitian Creole and in Gungbe: A Trans-Atlantic Sprachbund perspective” (with Enoch Aboh) Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas, MIT. March 2009 “Egalite pou tout moun? Equality for all? Some notes on the archeol- ogy and genealogy of Creole languages and Creole studies.” Linguistics and Latin American and Caribbean Studies “Krey`ol Texts and Contexts” Working Group, Duke University May 2007 “The end of Creole Studies.” 18th International Symposium on
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