Jackson T.-S. Sun Election Year 2018 Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
128, Sec. 2, Academia Rd., Taipei 11529, Taiwan Tel: (02)2652-5027 / Fax: (02)2785-6622
Current Positions
Research Fellow, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
Education
MA in Linguistics, National Taiwan Normal University (1979/09-1982/06)
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley (1988/08-1993/05)
Professional Experience
Assistant Research Fellow, Inst. of History and Philology, Academia Sinica (1986/08-1993/01)
Associate Research Fellow, Inst. of History and Philology/Inst. of Linguistics, Academia Sinica (1993/02-2000/05)
Deputy Director, Inst. of Linguistics, Academia Sinica (2005/08-2006/07)
Director, Inst. of Linguistics, Academia Sinica (2008/08-2011/07)
National Science Council (NSC) Convener of Linguistics (2008/03-2009/05)
Visiting Professor, La Trobe University (2008)
Adjunct Professor, Peking University (2010-2012)
Visiting Professor, Peking University (2014-2015)
CLASS Visiting Scholar, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2015)
Specialties
Linguistics
Awards and Honors
Notable Awards
Chancellor's Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley (1992-1993)
Ministry of Education Award for Distinguished Research on Non-Chinese Languages of China (1994)
Academia Sinica Distinguished Young Scholar's Research Award (1996)
NSC Distinguished Research Award (1994)
NSC Outstanding Research Award (2003)
NSC/MOST Special Excellence Flexible Salary Award (2009-2011; 2014-2016)
Notable honors and academic services
Keynote speaker at International Conference on Sino- Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (Singapore, 2012; Kunming, 2014; Beijing, 2017; Kyoto, 2018)
Editorial board member/associate editor of academic journals on Sino-Tibetan languages:
Minzu Yuwen (2000-)
Himalayan Linguistics (2002-2007)
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area (2005- 2013)
Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics (2006-)
Journal of Sino-Tibetan Linguistics (2007-)