CONDENSED
CURRICULUM VITAE
Adam Makkai,
Ph.D.
Professor
of English and Linguistics, University of Illinois at Chicago
&
Exec. Director and Director of Publications (Chair of
the Board) Emeritus (1974-1995)
Linguistic Association
of Canada and the United States (LACUS, Inc.)
Founder
(1974) and Registered Agent, Permanent Member of the
Board of Directors
Executive Director
and Editor-in-Chief of ATLANTIS-CENTAUR, Inc. (Publisher) (1995-)
Born:
December 16, 1935,
Budapest, Hungary.
Citizenship:
Naturalized American Citizen as of January
12, 1963.
Education:
B.A.
(cum laude) Harvard University, '58; Russian major,
French minor.
M.A. '62, Yale University; Ph.D. '65, Yale University,
General Linguistics.
Dissertation: Idiom Structure in
English (see "Publications"), Committee:
Rulon S. Wells, Warren C. Cowgill, Floyd G. Lounsbury,
Hugh M. Stimson, Sydney M. Lamb.
Fellowships
and Awards:
LOEB FUND (Harvard, '57-'58);
FORD FOUNDATION FOREIGN AREA TRAINING FELLOWSHIP (Yale,
'60-'61); UNIVERSITY-WILSON FELLOWSHIP (Yale, '61-'62),
JUNIOR STERLING FELLOWSHIP (Yale, '62-v63); PADEREWSKI
FOUNDATION & INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
Travel & Study Grant (Malaysia, '63-'64); American
Council of Learned Societies [ACLS] Dissertation Grant
(Yale, '64-'65); National Science Foundatioon [NSF]
Post-Doctoral Research Grant (Rand Corporation, CA '65-'66);
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & (Fulbright) EXCHANGES BOARD
[IREX] SENIOR SCHOLAR TRAVEL AWARD (Hungary, '85); FULLBRIGHT-HAYES
SENIOR RESEARCH PROFESSOR AWARD (NUS, Singapore '85-'86);
INVITED "FOREIGN EXPERT" (Changchun, Jilin,
People's Republic of China, Jilin University of Technology
[JUT] '87); HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL Visiting
Ssholar Award (Pretoria, R.S.A. & University of
the Witwatersrand, '88); 2nd IREX Senior Researcher
Grant (Hungary, '88); Visiting Scholar Award (Hong Kong
Baptist University '89-'90); Visiting Professor Award
(University of Hong Kong '91-'92); third IREX grant
(travel to Hungary, August-September, 1993); UIC Humanities
Institute Travel Grant to Hungary, April-May 1995.
Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, University of
Miskolc, Hungary, May 1995; PRO CULTURA HUNGARICA Ministerial
Citation of Honor, Ministry of Education and Culture,
Budapest, October 1996; GOLD CROSS OF MERIT FOR EXCELLENCE,
Arpad Hungarian Academy of Cleveland, OH, November 1996,
GRAND GOLD MEDAL FOR LITERARY SCHOLARLY ACHIEVEMENT,
'Kelemen Mikes' Hungarian Society of the Netherlands,
Dec. 1997, Presidential Gold Medal from the President
of Hungary for producing the Anthology of Hungarian
Poetry in English, 1999, Harold Witter Bynner award
for poetry translation, 2000-2001; second Harold Witter
Bynner award for poetry trans-lation, 2002-2003. George
Washington Award (American Hungarian Doundation) Nov.
11, 2003.
Languages:
English: fluent on all levels including published
scholarship and original poetry; Hungarian:
the same; German: quasi-native with lecturing
ability, scholarly and literary publications; French:
the same; Russian: from age 11 onward;
less fluent than German and French; Italian
and Spanish: Reading and research, Romanian
and Portuguese: Reading ability for research
only; general reading ability with dictionary in Slavic
and Germanic languages; Malay & Indonesian:
limited conversation, reading with dictionary. Linguistic
research on the following: Greek, Sanskrit, Gothic,
Old Church Slavic, Old & Middle English, Tagalog, Hawaiian, Vietnamese, Thai, Kipsigis-Kalenjin (Kenya); Mandarin.
Speaking and writing in Latin.
Teaching Experience:
University
of Hong Kong
(Visiting Professor, '90-'92),
Hong Kong
Baptist University (Visiting Scholar, '89-'90). University of Illinois at Chicago (Asst. Prof. '67-'69; Assoc. Prof. '69-'75; Full Prof. '75-2004, Professor Emeritus 2004-) National University of Singapore
(Fulbright-Hayes Senior Research Professor, '85-'86). California State University at Long
Beach & Occidental College: (Asst. Prof. '66-'67). University of Malaya (Asst.
Prof. '63-'64).
Yale
University (Lecturer '62-'63).
Iolani School (Teacher, '58-'60).
Non-Teaching Employment:
Research
Asst. to Isidore Dyen (Yale, '62-'63) on the "Lexicostatistical
Classification of the Austronesian Languages" Project;
Post-Doctoral Researcher in Computational Linguistics
(The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA. '65-'66.) sponsored
by the NSF.
Membership in Organizations:
LSA (from '62); MLA (from '66; Chair, Special Interest Group of General Linguistics ['76-'77]; Sec'y of same ['75-'76]; Memb. Exec. Com. ['77-'78].
LACUS/ALCEU, The Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, Inc. Foundation Exec. Director & Director of
Publications (from 1974 to 1975 re-elected 4 times);
President in 2002-2002; International Pragmatics Association,
Antwerp, Belgium (1997- ), Association of
American Literary Translators (ALTA), (1999 -).
Administrative
Experience:
Foundation
Chairperson of the Department of Linguistics at the
University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (UICC) 1971-72. Executive
Director, Director of Publications and Chairman of the
Board of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the
United States (LACUS, Inc.) from 1974 to 1995 (21 years
of experience); duties included annual conference site
selection, program management, chairing of Annual Meeting
of the Board of Directors, Grant Proposal Writing and
Management; Fund- Raising; Scholarship Administration.Foundation
Executive Director of Atlantis-Centaur, Inc. Chicago,
IL (1996-) Literary Program Officer of the Emory and
Ilona Ladany Foundation, New York, N.Y. (1996-) Chairperson
of the Advisory Board of Kahumana Community Center,
Waianae, Hawaii (1997-) Member of the Board, Kahumana Community Center, Waianae,
Hawaii (1997-)
Graduate
Dissertations Supervised:
Doris H. Welch ('69); J-L Garneau ('70); I. Miletiæ ('71); P.V. Deaney ('72); R. Srinivasan ('73); C.A. Kiwala ('74); D. Cusic ('75); S. Kumiya-Maynard ('77); R. Beukema ('80); J. McNulty ('81); M. Gallagher ('83); P. Cobin ('85); Cheng Qilong ('91); G. Kennedy ('92); R. Anderson, ('95); Jaroslaw Krajka, (Marie Curie Sklodowska University
of Lublin, Poland,) ('97-98), Elisabeth Watson Liebert, University of Canterbury,
New Zealand, 2002. [ M.A.s: 10, Ph.D.s: 6.]
Undergraduate Honors
College Courses Organized & Supervised:
Life,
Myth and Reality ('73);
Literature and National Character ('74);
Translation in Art, Science and the Social Sciences
('76);
The Fitness of Language ('77);
Hungarians in America ('78);
Great Poetry of the 20th Century ('78)
*with Paul Carroll and Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel); Science
and Religion: Convergences in the New Age ('85),
The Role of Poland and Hungary in the Defeat of the
USSR (2000) (With Alexander Kurczaba and Yaroslav Schejbal)
Membership in Undergraduate Honors Societies:
Golden Key International Honors Society since 2002 –
International Society of Collegiate Scholars since 2003
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LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
[LAS 100] courses taught: How Does
Language Work? 2001; "Isms Are Wasms", 2001. How Does Language Work? (2 sections)
2002, "Isms Are Wasms", 2002.
Editorships
of Refereed Journals and Series Editorships:
1. Word, Journal of the International Linguistic
Association (ILA), formerly the Linguistic Circle of
York,Associate Editor 1974-75, Managing Editor 1975-76.
2. Studi italiani della linguistica teorica ed applicata
(SILTA), Associate Editor since 1975, Liviana
Edit-, rice, Bologna & Padova, Italy.
3.
Language Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, Associate Editor 1978-1989.
4.
Forum Linguisticum, Editor-in-Chief from 1976
to present, Jupiter Press, Lake Bluff, IL.
5. Edward Sapir Monograph Series in Language, Culture
and Cognition (ESMSLCC), Editor from 1976 to
the present, Jupiter Press, Lake Bluff, IL.
6.
Indian Journal of Linguistics, Associate Editor,
Calcutta, India from 1976 to the present.
7. Szivárvány [='Rainbow'], Associate Editor,
Hungarian periodical for literature and criticism, Framo
Publishing and Lyra Books, Chicago, IL.
8. "ÁRGUS" Literary and cultural review,
Székesfehérvár, Hungary, 1999 to present.
9 Editor-in Chief,
ATLANTIS-CENTAUR PUBLICATIONS, Inc. from 1996, ongoing.
10 LACUS FORUM Series, General Editor and Director
of Publications from 1974 to the present, Hornbeam Press,
Columbia, S.C., (1974-1984), LACUS, Inc., (1985 to the
present). 29 600-page volumes have appeared to date:
1974,
Lake Forest (with V.B. Makkai);
1975, Toronto (with Peter A. Reich); 1976,
El Paso (with E.L. Blansitt and R.J.
Di Pietro; 1977, Montréal (with M. Paradis);
1978, Buffalo (with P.L. Garvin and W. Wölck; 1979,
Calgary (with W. McCormack and J.H. Izzo); 1980, Houston (with J.E. Copeland); 1981, Toronto (with W. Gutwinski & G. Jolly); 1982,
Evanston (with J. Morreal); 1983, Québec, (with
P. Martin & J. McCalla); 1984, Ithaca (with
R.A. Hall, Jr.); 1985, Saskatoon (with C. Martin
& L. Pérez); 1986, Arlington (with I. Fleming);
1987, Toronto (with S. Embleton); 1988,
East Lansing (with D.G. Lockwood & R. Brend); 1989,
Kingston (with M. Jordan); Fullerton, 1990 (with
A. Della Volpe); 1991, Ann Arbor (with R. Brend
& R. Bailey); 1992, Montréal (with Peter
A. Reich); 1993, Chicago (with V.B. Makkai and
T. Griffen), 1994, Vancouver, B.C. (with
M.J. Powell and T. Griffen; 1995 (with
B. Hoffer and T. Griffen).
Academic
Grants Consultancies:
British Council,
Canada Council, National Science Foundation (NSF), National
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Guggenheim Foundation,
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), International
Researches and Exchanges Board (IREX), The Ford Foundation,
University of Illinois at Chicago Research Board, University
of Southern Illinois at Carbondale Research Board, National
University of Singapore Research Board, Hong Kong Baptist
College Research Board, The University of Toronto, English
Department, Northwestern University Press and Department
of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Publications
Consultancies:
Consolidated
Book Publishers, Chicago
(1986-72); English Language Institute of America, Chicago (1968 to 1978); Barron's Educational Series, Hauppauge, N.Y., (1975 to present); Pikaday Publications, Toronto, Ont., (1983-89); International House, Budapest, (1985 to present).
International
Delegate:
Xth International Congress
of Linguists, Bucharest, Romania (1967); XIth International
Congress of Linguists, Bologna, Italy (1972); VIIth
International Congress of the Société internationale
de linguistique fonctionnelle (SILF), (1980); VIIIth
International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences(ICUS),Los
Angeles (1979); IXth International Conference on the
Unity of the Sciences, Miami (1980); Xth International
Conference on the Unity of the Sciences, Seoul, Korea
(1981); IVth International EUROLEX Conference ["BUDALEX"],
Budapest, Hungary, (1988); 2nd International Symposium
on Logic, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
RSA, (1989); First International Symposium on Idiomaticity
and Phraseology, Laval, Québec, (1992); Systemic Functional
Workshop, University of Valencia, Spain (1995), First
International Symposium on Ecolinguistics, Klagenfurt
& Graz, Austria (1995), Third International Conference
on Eco-linguistics, Bielefeld, Germany (1997), Reims,
France (1998), Ecolinguistics Session, International
Pragmatics Association (IPRA,) National University of
Ireland, Maynooth,International Conference on Translation
(1999) Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences, Summer Conference on Translation, Budapest
(1999), 51st International Book Fair ("Buchmesse")
Frankfurt, Germany (August 12-28, 1999.) "35 Years
of ECOLINGUISTICS" Graz, Austria, December 2000.First International Symposium
on Language: Sektion für Schöne Wissenschaften, Goetheanum,
Dornach, Switzerland, March 2002, Linguistic Institute
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Symposium on Modern
Linguistics (2002).
Listed
in:
Directory
of American Scholars (1975)
Contemporary Authors (Gale Research) ( 1976)
Men of Achievement, Cambridge, UK (1978)
Marquis Who's Who in the Midwest (1980)
Who's
Who in America (1999)
Who's
Who in the World (2000)
Who's Who in Education (2003
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