Stephen Levinson#

• Managing Director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (1998-2001, 2007-8)
• Director, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (1994-)
• Professor of Comparative Linguistics at the Radboud University Nijmegen (1995- )
• Reader, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Linguistics (till 1994)
• Head, Max Planck Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Berlin (1989-1991) and Nijmegen (1991-1997)

• University of Cambridge, 1967-70: BA in Social Anthropology, First Class Honours
• University of California, Berkeley
• Fulbright Award, Special Career Fellow 1970-75
• MA in Linguistic Anthropology, 1973
• Doctorate in Linguistic Anthropology, UCB, 1977(Thesis: "Social Deixis in a Tamil Village")
• LSA Fellowship, and Fellowship from Mathematical and Social Sciences Board, 1973
• Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, 1974, Visiting Scholar
• Australian National University, Visiting Research Fellow 1980-82
• Center for the Study of Information and Language, Stanford University, Visiting Professor, 1987-8

• Senior Scholar, King's College, Cambridge, 1970
• Fullbright Award, 1970
• Member of High Table, King’s College, Cambridge, 1975-
• Professor, Linguistic Society of America Linguistics Institute, Stanford University, 1987
• Fellow of the British Academy, 1988
• The Nijmegen Lectures 1988
• Stirling Prize, American Anthropology Association, 1992
• The Stern Lectures, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1998
• Professor, Linguistic Society of America Linguistics Institute, U.C. Santa Barbara 2001
• Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Fellow-Elect 2001
• Member of the Academia Europaea, 2003-
• Hale Professor, Linguistic Society of America, 2009