Michael Fortescue - Curriculum Vitae#

• 1966 B.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California at Berkeley
  
• 1968 - 1970 Teaching assistantship in Russian at University of California at Berkeley. M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures (1970)
  
• 1971 - 1975 Teaching English in Japan for International Language Centre, Osaka, and in France at the University of Aix/Marseille (section 'Formation Continue')
  
• 1975 - 1978 University of Edinburgh, PhD in Linguistics. Tutor in General Linguistics. Arts Faculty scholarship for 1977 - 1978
  
• 1978 - 1979 Department of Eskimology, University of Copenhagen, on Danish government exchange scholarship. Field trip to northwest Greenland (summer 1979)
  
• 1979 - 1982 Research in Department of Eskimology supported by the Danish Research Council for the Humanities.
  Field work in Coppermine, Northwest Territories (summer 1980)
  
• 1983 Appointed 'ekstern lektor' in Eskimology, University of Copenhagen
  
• 1984 Appointed 'lektor' in Eskimology, University of Copenhagen
  
• Joined editorial committee of Acta Linguistica Hafniensia and committee of the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen. *1985 - 1987 Head of Department of Eskimology. Organizer of international Workshop on Materials and Methods for the Teaching of Eskimo Languages (summer 1986).
  
• 1988 Spring semester spent at Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, on faculty exchange scheme.
  
• Co-organizer of 6th Inuit Studies Conference, Copenhagen, August 1988
  
• 1989 Appointed 'docent' in Eskimology
  
• 1990 - 1991 Field work in Qaanaaq, Thule, May 1990. Co-organizer of 4th Functional Grammar Conference at University of Copenhagen
  
• 1992 - 1995 Invited to lecture in Sapporo and Chiba, Japan, May 1992, and October 1992 at Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
  
• Lecture series at University of California at Berkeley in March 1994
  
• Field work in Chukotka, summer 1995.
  
• 1996 Organized international seminar on comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan at Copenhagen (January 1996)
  
• Spring semester on sabbatical at University of California at Berkeley
  
• Invited as research fellow to Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen (October 1996)
  
• 2000 Appointed Professor of General Linguistics, Department of General and Applied Linguistics, University of Copenhagen
  
• 2004 Spring semester spent as Visiting Fellow at La Trobe Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, Melbourne, Australia
  
• 2005 Elected chairman of Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen
  
• 2006 Summer doing fieldwork with Ditidaht on Vancouver Island, BC
  
• 2009 Fieldwork in British Columbia and Alaska working principally with Kwakwala
  
• 2011 Moved as professor emeritus to England, where now an associate of St Hugh’s College, Oxford