Joseph Aoun | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Aoun in 2008 | |
| 7th President of Northeastern University | |
| Assumed office August 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Richard M. Freeland |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 26, 1953 Beirut, Lebanon |
| Education | Saint Joseph University of Beirut (BA) Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis (MA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | The Formal Nature of Anaphoric Relations (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Noam Chomsky |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguistics |
| Institutions | University of Southern California Northeastern University |
Joseph Aoun (born March 26, 1953)[1] is a Lebanese-born American linguist and academic administrator who serves as the 7th president of Northeastern University since August 2006. He was previously a professor and dean at the University of Southern California. As a theoretical syntactician, he is known for his work on logical form and wh-movement. Aoun was the eighth highest-paid private college president in the country during the university’s 2022 fiscal year.[2]
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 19 April 2011.
- ^ news; Curwin, Eli (2024-02-28). "Aoun ranked eighth highest-paid private college president in US". The Huntington News. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
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