Alexander Vovin#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 3956 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Alexander Vovin passed away April 8, 2022.
Positions Held
- 2014 Full professor (directeur d'études) of Japanese and Northeast Asian linguistics at EHESS/CRLAO, Paris
- 2008 - 2009 Visiting professor, Dept. of Japanese language and literature, Universität Bochum
- 2008 Visiting professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto
- 2003 - 2014 Full professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Hawaii
- 2001 - 2002 Visiting professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto
- 1997 - 2003 Associate professor of Japanese, University of Hawaii
- 1995 - 1997 Assistant professor of Japanese, University of Hawaii
- 1994 - 1995 Assistant professor of Japanese, Miami University
- 1990 - 1994 Assistant professor of Japanese language and linguistics, University of Michigan
- 1983 - 1990 Assistant/lecturer/researcher, Institute of Oriental Studies, Academy of Sciences, USSR
Fields of Scholarship
- Ainu language: history, reconstruction
- Korean language: history, reconstruction, philology
- Japanese language: history, reconstruction, philology
- Comparative Altaic Studies: linguistic contacts
