Personal Bio
I was born in Mie Prefecture, Japan, and grew up in Kyoto, where my father, Kiyosi Ito, was professor of mathematics at Kyoto University. Because he also held faculty positions at Stanford, Cornell, and Aarhus University in Denmark, my primary education was split between Palo Alto and Kyoto, and my secondary education between Aarhus and Ithaca. As detailed in my professional bio below, I went to college in Tokyo, to grad school in Amherst, Massachusetts, and then started my academic career in Santa Cruz, California.
Professional Bio
Education |
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| 1986 | Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Ph.D. Thesis Supervisor: Alan Prince) |
| 1979 | M.A., B.A. International Christian University, Tokyo (MA, BA Thesis Supervisor: Kazuko Inoue) |
Academic Positions |
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| 2021-present | Research Professor, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 2020-21 | Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 2016-19 | Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 2009-13, 15-16 | Director, UCEAP Tokyo Study Center, Japan (UC Education Abroad Program) |
| 1999-2006 | Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 1996- | Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 1992-1996 | Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 1987-1992 | Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz |
Visiting Positions |
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| 2013-2019 | Visiting Research Faculty, National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2006-07 | Research Fellow, Kyoto University and Kobe University, Japan |
| 2001-2002 | Research Fellow, Kobe University, Japan |
| 1999 | Visiting Professor, Tsukuba University, Japan |
| 1995, 1998 | Visiting Professor, Tuebingen University, Germany |
| 1993-94 | Visiting Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| 1986-87 | Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz |
Honors, Awards, Grants |
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| 2018-21 | NSF Grant No. 1749368 Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory (with A. Mester) |
| 2018 | Hana-bana (花々): A Festschrift in Honor of Junko Ito and Armin Mester. Bennett et al (eds). Linguistics Research Center eScholarship Repository, University of California. 2018 |
| 2006-07 | JSPS Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science |
| 2001-02 | Research Fellowship, Japan Foundation |
| 1998 | DAAD Grant for research visit in Germany, Deutsche Akademische Austausch Dienst |
| 1997-00 | Monbusho International Scientific Research Program: Joint Research Grant (with H. Kubozono, S. Haraguchi, and A. Mester). |
| 1995-99 | NSF Grant No. SBR-9510868 The Structure of the Phonological Lexicon (with A. Mester). |
| 1991-92 | NSF Grant No. BNS-9021357, Properties of Feature Organization (with E. Selkirk and A. Mester) |
Publications |
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