Andrew Carnie, PhD Appointed Faculty Director

I am happy to announce the appointment of Dr. Andrew Carnie to the position of Faculty Director in the Graduate College and Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs. In this position he will provide leadership and coordination of academic programs and special initiatives administered by the Graduate College. These are principally the 14 Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs (GIDPs) and the GIDP Office, current and planned centrally-coordinated graduate degrees such as professional masters programs, and initiatives such as fundraising development and communication. The Faculty Director position is part-time, and it expressly enables a faculty perspective in the above roles. The position is a direct outcome of transformation recommendations made by a review committee last year that led to a reorganization and savings in the GIDP Office.

Dr. Carnie brings both depth and breadth of experience in graduate and interdisciplinary activities to the job. He is a professor of Linguistics, a member of the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching GIDP and the Cognitive Science GIDP, and a member of the joint program in Anthropology and Linguistics. He has extensive experience in admissions, curriculum, and faculty affairs at the departmental and college level. He served for three years on the University's Undergraduate Council and most recently as the first Faculty Chair of the Graduate Council, which includes service in the Faculty Senate and on the Senate Executive Committee. Dr. Carnie received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1995. He is an accomplished and highly visible researcher and the author of six books and numerous articles, known nationally and internationally for his scholarship on syntactic theory, Celtic linguistics, and morphology.

Andrew C. Comrie, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President for Research
Dean of the Graduate College
University of Arizona