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Stefan Th. Gries |
Full CV / Personal info |
Academic appointments (main)
| July 2025 - | Distinguished Professor of Linguistics (Professor Above Scale, with tenure) Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| April 2018 - | (Full/W3) Professor (25%, with tenure) as Chair of English Linguistics (Corpus Linguistics with a focus on quantitative methods) Department of English, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen |
| July 2010 - June 2025 | (Full) Professor of Linguistics (with tenure) Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| July 2007 - June 2010 | Associate Professor of Linguistics (with tenure) Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| November 2005 - June 2007 | Assistant Professor of Linguistics (tenure-track) Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| February 2005 - October 2005 | Visiting researcher with scholarship Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany |
| May 2002 - July 2005 | Associate Professor of English (with tenure) Institute of Business Communication and Information Science, University of Southern Denmark at Sønderborg |
| April 1999 - April 2002 | Assistant Professor of English (tenure-track) Institute of Business Communication and Information Science, University of Southern Denmark at Sønderborg |
Academic appointments (temporary/honorary/visiting/additional)
| July 2025 | Visiting Professor University of Oregon, Eugene (LSA Linguistic Institute 2025) |
| January 2020 - | Member Center for Responsible Machine Learning (CRML), University of California, Santa Barbara |
| June/July 2019 | Visiting Professor University of California, Davis (LSA Linguistic Institute 2019) |
| April - September 2017 | Visiting Leibniz Professor Graduate Academy Leipzig, University of Leipzig |
| July 2015 | Visiting Professor University of Chicago (LSA Linguistic Institute 2015) |
| December 2014 - June 2025 | Board member of academic committee Institute for Corpora and Intercultural Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| December 2013 - | Member Ph.D. emphasis 'Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences', University of California, Santa Barbara |
| August 2013 - July 2017 | Visiting Chair (Linguistics and English Language) ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (at Lancaster University) |
| June/July 2013 | Visiting Professor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (LSA Linguistic Institute 2013) |
| March 2012 - | Affiliated faculty Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 13 September 2011 | Named Honorary Liebig Professor Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (see here or here) |
| July 2011 | Visiting Professor University of Colorado at Boulder (LSA Linguistic Institute 2011) |
| September 2007 - | Member Ph.D. emphasis 'Cognitive Science', University of California, Santa Barbara |
| July 2007 | Visiting Professor Stanford University (LSA Linguistic Institute 2007) |
| September 2006 - | Member Ph.D. emphasis 'Applied Linguistics', University of California, Santa Barbara |
| April 2005 - September 2005 | Part-time lecturer of English linguistics Department for British and American Studies, University of Jena |
| October 1998 - March 2005 | Part-time lecturer of English linguistics Department of English and American Studies, University of Hamburg |
| September 1998 - March 1999 | Part-time lecturer of English Institute of Business Communication and Information Science, University of Southern Denmark at Sønderborg |
Administrative experience
| University of California, Santa Barbara | Graduate students admissions committee (winter 2005, 2006, 2009); faculty lab supervisor (winter 2005 - spring 2009); workload committee (May 2006 - May 2007); departmental representative to the Faculty Legislature (fall 2006 - spring 2009); member of the Steering Committee of the Ph.D. emphasis 'Cognitive Science' (fall 2007 - spring 2020); member of Graduate Council and member of the Graduate Mentorship Awards committee (Sept 2009 - Aug 2013); Undergraduate Advisor and member of Executive Committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (fall 2010 - spring 2016); chair of the Committee on Graduate Student Affairs (fall 2010 - spring 2011); departmental representative on the Faculty Undergraduate Network of the College of Letters and Science (11/2010 - 10/2013); member of the English for Multilingual Students advisory committee (Nov 2010 - spring 2016); member of the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Student Housing (Jan 2011 - Aug 2013); member of the faculty search committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (fall 2011 - winter 2012); chair of the Undergraduate Studies Committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (fall 2011 - spring 2015); member of the faculty search committee of the Dept. of Spanish/Portuguese (fall 2013 - winter 2014); chair of an ad-hoc Academic Senate charges committee (spring-summer 2014); member of the faculty search committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (fall 2014 - winter 2015); member of the faculty search committee of the Dept. of Spanish/Portuguese (fall 2015 - winter 2016); member of UCSB's Information Technology Council (spring 2016-fall 2022); member of the faculty search committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (fall 2017 - winter 2018); member of the Data Science Initiative working group (fall 2017 -); member of the faculty search committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (fall 2018 - winter 2019); member of the graduate studies committee (fall 2018 - 13 Feb 2019 (resigned in protest over chair's handling of the job search)); department parliamentarian (fall 2018 - 13 Feb 2019 (resigned in protest over chair's handling of the job search)); faculty mentor of an assistant professor as part of the inaugural HFA Mentoring Program (Feb 2019 - fall 2019); member of the linguistics lab committee (fall 2019 - spring 2020); member of the Undergraduate Studies Committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (Sept 2020 - Sept 2021); member of the Executive Committee of the Ph.D. emphasis 'Cognitive Science' (fall 2020 - spring 2024); Member of the Campus Elections Commission (Winter quarter 2020); department parliamentarian (fall 2020 - spring 2021); Member of the Campus Elections Commission (Winter quarter 2021); chair of the faculty search committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (fall 2021 - winter 2022); member of the linguistics lab committee (Sept 2021 - summer 2022); member of the Campus Elections Commission (Fall quarter 2022 - Winter quarter 2023); member of the outreach committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (fall 2022 - spring 2023); member of the graduate studies committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (fall 2022 - spring 2023); department parliamentarian (Sept 2022 - spring 2024); department faculty mentor; member of the Campus Elections Commission (fall 2022 - winter 2023); member of the undergraduate studies committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (fall 2023 - spring 2024); member of Undergraduate Council (fall 2023 - spring 2024); member of the Finals Week Policy Working Group (fall 2023 - spring 2024); director of the communications committee of the Dept. of Linguistics (fall 2023 - spring 2024); member of the Campus Elections Commission (fall 2023 - winter 2024); member of the Campus Elections Commission (fall 2024 - winter 2025); co-chair of the Department of Linguistics (fall 2024 - spring 2026) |
| University of Southern Denmark | Departmental coordinator for students' exchange semesters (1999 - 2005), English language courses coordinator for all English courses at my SDU campus (1999 - 2005), acting head of committee on course evaluations (2003), substitute member of our study and examination board (2003 - 2005), member of the committee evaluating our course of studies for the Danish Research Ministry (2004 - 2005), member of the study and examination board of the SDU course of studies at the University of Flensburg (2004 - 2005) |
Academic education / qualification
| December 2024 | Habilitation in English linguistics University of Marburg |
| July 2000 | Ph.D. degree in English linguistics University of Hamburg |
| April 1998 | M.A. degree in English linguistics, psychology, educational science University of Hamburg |
| April 1993 - April 1998 | Student of English linguistics, psychology, educational science, and Russian linguistics University of Hamburg |
Other education / qualification / occupation
| 2011 - | Occasional freelancing as a consultant and/or expert witness on (corpus) linguistics, statistics, and their interface with the law |
| 1995 - 1998 | Occasional freelancing as a coach, communication, and sales consultant/trainer |
| November 1993 | Exam correspondence course Russian |
| May 1992 | 'Teil 4 der Meisterprüfung' (Chamber of Industry and Commerce Hamburg) |
| December 1991 | 'Berufsabschluss' (successful completion of the apprenticeship / vocational training) as a 'Bürokaufmann', Chamber of Industry and Commerce Stade |
| June 1989 - June 1993 | Military service (rank at discharge: Stabsunteroffizier) S1-Abteilung (Personnel department), PzBtl 164 in D-21493 Elmenhorst |
Personal interests / hobbies / favs (no particular order)