Rate Professor Noam Chomsky

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, 1955.

Research Interests: Syntax, semantics, philosophy of language, cognitive science, and political activism.

Appointments: UA Laureate Professor of Linguistics, Agnese Nelms Haury Chair, University of Arizona; Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Awards: Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences (1988), Helmholtz Medal (1996), Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science (1999).

Publications:

• Syntactic Structures, Mouton, 1957.
• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Pantheon Books, 1988 (co-authored with Edward S. Herman).

Editorial Contributions: Editorial board member of several linguistic and political journals.

Additional Contributions: Delivered numerous public lectures on linguistics and global politics; influential in shaping modern linguistic theory.