Honors, Recognitions, and Outstanding Achievements

Fall 2018

Humanities Release Time, Research Board UIUC ($14,000)Project: Finishing research monograph titled ‘Cité Talk: Multicultural Urban Youth Speech Styles in Paris’

Fall 2010

Visiting Associate Professor, Research Center for Text and Francophonie, University of Cergy-Pontoise (France), by invitation

Fall 2006

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle (France), by invitation

Fall 2004

Humanities Release Time, Research Board UIUC ($9,000)
Project: Finishing research monograph titled “Accents de banlieues’ (published in 2010)

2002-2003

Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) Faculty Fellow
Project: “A sociolinguistic study of adolescent speech in suburban Paris”

2001

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Research Grant and Summer Fellowship, summer 2001

2000-2001

Dean’s Teaching Fellow, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

1999-present

List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by Their Students (F-Fall, SP-Spring)
FR 213 French Phonetics: F-2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2013, 2015; SP-2003, 2005, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018;
FR 207 Grammar and composition: SP-2006; SP-2020
FR 413 French Phonetics and Phonology: SP-2001, F-2003, 2009;
FR 414 Advanced grammar and composition: SP-2002, 2013;
FR 417 History of French: F-2013;
FR 416 Structure of the French Language: F-2005;
FR 529 Language Variation and Change SP-2002, F-2012;
FR 529 Intonation and Meaning: SP 2005;
FR 529/FR 559 Sociophonetics: F-2015;
FR 529/FR 559 Language Policy and Planning in the Francophone World: SP-2018;

1991-1995

Doctoral fellowship (thèse en co-tutelle), jointly awarded by the French and Hungarian governments

1989

Young Francophone Writer, Prix du Jeune Ecrivain Francophone, Third Prize, awarded by Le Monde/La Découverte Publishing, France