!!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\\ \\