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Dr. Joseph E. Aoun is the seventh president of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts where he took office on August 15, 2006. Prior to taking on the Presidency at Northeastern, Aoun was Dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California. He joined USC in 1982 in the Department of Lingusitics, and during his time at USC served as head of the academic Senate.

Aoun was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and is currently a member of Generative Linguistics in the Old World and the Linguistic Society of America.

Dr. Aoun was Inaugurated as the Seventh President of Northeastern on Monday, March 26, 2007.

Education
PhD: Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981
Diploma of Advanced Studies: General and Theoretical Linguistics, University of Paris VIII, 1977
Masters: Oriental Languages and Literature, Saint Joseph University, 1975

Awards
USC Associates Award For Creativity In Research And Scholarship, 1997
USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, Award for The Syntax of Scope (wih A. Li), 1993
USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, Award for A Grammar of Anaphora, 1988

Editorships
Cambridge University Press
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Oxford University Press
The Linguistic Inquiry, Member of Editorial Board
The Linguistic Review

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