the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Slavic Linguistics in Linguistics and Slavic Languages and Literatures, received an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for 2013–14 as well as the American Councils for International Education’s ACTR/ACCELS Title VIII Research Scholar Award for “Contact-induced change and attrition: assessing the impact of Russian.” She published Language Typology and Historical Contingency (John Benjamins Press, 2013), which she edited with Balthasar Bickel, David A. Peterson, and Alan Timberlake. She was the keynote speaker at the Foundation for Endangered Languages Annual Conference at Carleton University, the centenary celebration of the Slavic Department at Leiden University, and the Cambridge Endangered Languages Conference at Cambridge University, and was named the Cornell University ’79 Distinguished Classmate.