Jackson T.-S. Sun 孫天心 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
Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica (August 2018~)
Honorary Chair Professor, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University (June 2019~)
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);Research Fellow, Inst. of Linguistics, Academia Sinica (2001.06-2018.07)
Deputy Director, Inst. of Linguistics, Academia Sinica (2005/08-2006/07)
Visiting Professor, La Trobe University (2008.03.01-2008.05.31)
National Science Council (NSC) Convener of Linguistics (2008/03-2009/05)
Director, Inst. of Linguistics, Academia Sinica (2008/08-2011/07)
Adjunct Professor, Peking University (2010-2012)
Visiting Professor, Peking University (2014-2015)
CLASS Visiting Scholar, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2015.05.01-2015.06.30)
Specialties
Linguistics
Awards and Honors
Notable Awards
Fulbright Graduate Study Award (1988-1990)
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 Early-Career Investigator Research Achievement Award (1996)
NSC Outstanding Research Awards (2003, 2019)
Ministry of Education Academic Award (2020)
Linguistic Society of Taiwan Lifelong Achievement Award (2022)
Notable honors and academic services
keynote speaker at International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (Invited four times: Singapore 2012; Kunming 2014; Beijing 2017; Kyoto 2018)
Invited speaker for the Lecture Series Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Nankai University (2019)
Distinguished Alumnus, National Taiwan Normal University (2019)
Editorial board member/associate editor of journals:
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~)
Chinese Historical Linguistics and Sino-Tibetan Linguistics (2016~)
Chinese Linguistics (2021~)