ucla phd english program

MA & PhD in Architecture

Ucla architecture and urban design offers two academic graduate degrees: the master of arts in architecture (ma) and doctor of philosophy in architecture (phd)..

The programs produce students whose scholarship aims to provoke and operate within architecture’s public, professional, and scholarly constituencies. Both programs are supported by the Standing Committee, made up of five faculty members: Michael Osman (interim program director), Cristóbal Amunátegui , Dana Cuff , Samaa Elimam , and Ayala Levin . A number of visiting faculty teach courses to expand the range of offerings.

Applications for the MA/PhD program (Fall 2024 matriculation) are completed via the UCLA Application for Graduate Admission , and are due January 6, 2024. Candidates will be notified of decisions in March 2024; admitted candidates who wish to accept the offer of matriculation must submit their Statement of Intent to Register (SIR) by April 15, 2024.

All MA and PhD students are required to enroll in a two-year colloquium focused on methods for writing, teaching, and researching in the field of architecture. The six courses that constitute the colloquium train students in the apparatus of academic scholarship. Over the two-year sequence, students produce original research projects and develop skills in long-format writing.

Research Opportunities

The intellectual life of the students in the MA and PhD programs are reinforced by the increasing number of opportunities afforded to students through specialized faculty-led research projects. These include cityLAB-UCLA and the Urban Humanities Institute .

MA in Architecture

This program prepares students to work in a variety of intellectual and programmatic milieus including historical research, cultural studies, and interdisciplinary studies with particular emphasis on connections with geography, design, art history, history of science and literary studies, as well as studio and design based research.

Beyond the core colloquium, MA students take a series of approved courses both at UCLA AUD and across campus. The MA program is a two-year degree, culminating in a thesis. The thesis is developed from a paper written by the student in their coursework and developed in consultation with the primary advisor and the standing committee. In addition to courses and individual research, students often participate in collective, project-based activities, including publications, symposia and exhibitions.

The program is distinguished by its engagement with contemporary design and historical techniques as well by the unusual balance it offers: fostering great independence and freedom in the students’ courses of study while providing fundamental training in architectural scholarship.

Recent MA Theses

• Jacqueline Meyer, “Crafting Utopia: Paolo Soleri and the Building of Arcosanti.”
• Joseph Maguid, “The Architecture of the Videogame: Architecture as the Link Between Representational and Participatory Immersion.”
• Meltem Al, “The Agency of Words and Images in the Transformation of Istanbul: The Case of Ayazma.”
• Courtney Coffman, “Addressing Architecture and Fashion: On Simulacrum, Time and Poché.”
• Joseph Ebert, “Prolegomena to a Poiesis of Architectural Phenomenology.”
• Jamie Aron, “Women Images: From the Bauhaus Weaving Workshop to the Knoll Textile Division.”
• Gustave Heully, “Moldy Assumptions.”
• Brigid McManama, “Interventions on Pacoima Wash: Repurposing Linear Infrastructure into Park Spaces.”

MA Typical Study Program

Phd in architecture.

This program prepares students to enter the academic professions, either in architectural history, architectural design, or other allied fields. PhD students are trained to teach courses in the history and theory of architecture while also engaging in studio pedagogy and curatorial work. In addition to the colloquium, PhD students take a series of approved courses both at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design and across campus. They select these courses in relation to their own research interests and in consultation with their primary advisor. The priorities for selection are breadth of knowledge and interdisciplinary experience that retains a focused area of expertise. To this end, the students identify Major and Minor Fields of study. The Minor Field is generally fulfilled by satisfactorily completing three courses given by another department and the Major Field by five courses offered by UCLA Architecture and Urban Design.

Once coursework is completed, PhD students move to the Comprehensive Exam, Qualifying Exam, and the writing of a dissertation, and final defense, if deemed appropriate by the doctoral committee. In the transition from coursework to exams, PhD students work on one paper beyond its original submission as coursework. The paper begins in the context of a departmental seminar, but often continues either in the context of an independent study, summer mentorship, or a second seminar with faculty consent. Upon the research paper’s acceptance, students begin preparing for their comprehensive exam. Before their third year, students must also satisfactorily complete three quarters of language study or its equivalent according to University standards. The particular language will be determined in consultation with the Standing Committee. The Comprehensive Exam is administered by at least two members of the Standing Committee and at most one faculty member from another Department at UCLA, also a member of the Academic Senate.

The Comprehensive Exam tests two fields: the first covers a breadth of historical knowledge—300 years at minimum—and the second focuses on in-depth knowledge of a specialization that is historically and thematically circumscribed. Students submit an abstract on each of these fields, provide a substantial bibliography, and prepare additional documentation requested by their primary advisor. These materials are submitted to the committee no less than two weeks before the exam, which occurs as early as the end of the second year. Students are encouraged to complete the Comprehensive Exam no later than the end of their third year of study.

The Comprehensive Exam itself consists of two parts: an oral component that takes place first, and then a written component. The oral component is comprised of questions posed by the committee based on the student’s submitted materials. The goal of the exam is for students to demonstrate their comprehensive knowledge of their chosen field. The written component of the exam (which may or may not be waived by the committee) consists of a written response to a choice of questions posed by the committee. The goal of this portion of the exam is for students to demonstrate their research skills, their ability to develop and substantiate an argument, and to show promise of original contribution to the field. Students have two weeks to write the exam. After the committee has read the exam, the advisor notifies the student of the committee’s decision. Upon the student’s successful completion of the Comprehensive Exam, they continue to the Qualifying Exam.

Students are expected to take the Qualifying Exam before the beginning of the fourth year. The exam focuses on a dissertation prospectus that a student develops with their primary advisor and in consultation with their PhD committee. Each student’s PhD committee consists of at least two members of the Standing Committee and one outside member from another department at the University (and a member of the Faculty Senate). Committees can also include faculty from another institution. All committees are comprised of at least three members of UCLA Academic Senate. The prospectus includes an argument with broad implications, demonstrates that the dissertation will make a contribution of knowledge and ideas to the field, demonstrates mastery of existing literature and discourses, and includes a plan and schedule for completion.

The PhD dissertation is written after the student passes the qualifying exam, at which point the student has entered PhD candidacy. The dissertation is defended around the sixth year of study. Students graduating from the program have taken posts in a wide range of universities, both in the United States and internationally.

Recent PhD Dissertations

• Marko Icev, "Building Solidarity: Architecture After Disaster and The Skopje 1963 Post-Earthquake Reconstruction." ( Read )
• Anas Alomaim, "Nation Building in Kuwait, 1961-1991."
• Tulay Atak, “Byzantine Modern: Displacements of Modernism in Istanbul.”
• Ewan Branda, “Virtual Machines: Culture, telematique, and the architecture of information at Centre Beaubourg, 1968–1977.”
• Aaron Cayer, "Design and Profit: Architectural Practice in the Age of Accumulation"
• Per-Johan Dahl, “Code Manipulation, Architecture In-Between Universal and Specific Urban Spaces.”
• Penelope Dean, “Delivery without Discipline: Architecture in the Age of Design.”
• Miriam Engler, “Gordon Cullen and the ‘Cut-and-Paste’ Urban Landscape.”
• Dora Epstein-Jones, “Architecture on the Move: Modernism and Mobility in the Postwar.”
• Sergio Figueiredo, “The Nai Effect: Museological Institutions and the Construction of Architectural Discourse.”
• Jose Gamez, “Contested Terrains: Space, Place, and Identity in Postcolonial Los Angeles.”
• Todd Gannon, “Dissipations, Accumulations, and Intermediations: Architecture, Media and the Archigrams, 1961–1974.”
• Whitney Moon, "The Architectural Happening: Diller and Scofidio, 1979-89"
• Eran Neuman, “Oblique Discourses: Claude Parent and Paul Virilio’s Oblique Function Theory and Postwar Architectural Modernity.”
• Alexander Ortenberg, “Drawing Practices: The Art and Craft of Architectural Representation.”
• Brian Sahotsky, "The Roman Construction Process: Building the Basilica of Maxentius"
• Marie Saldana, “A Procedural Reconstruction of the Urban Topography of Magnesia on The Maeander.”
• David Salomon, “One Thing or Another: The World Trade Center and the Implosion of Modernism.”
• Ari Seligmann, “Architectural Publicity in the Age of Globalization.”
• Zheng Tan, “Conditions of The Hong Kong Section: Spatial History and Regulatory Environment of Vertically Integrated Developments.”
• Jon Yoder, “Sight Design: The Immersive Visuality of John Lautner.”

A Sampling of PhD Alumni and Their Pedagogy

Iman Ansari , Assistant Professor of Architecture, the Knowlton School, Ohio State University

Tulay Atak , Adjunct Associate Professor, Pratt School of Architecture

Shannon Starkey , Associate Professor of Architecture, University of San Diego

Ece Okay , Affiliate Research, Université De Pau Et Des Pays De L'adour

Zheng Tan , Department of Architecture, Tongji University

Pelin Yoncaci , Assistant Professor, Department Of Architecture, Middle East Technical University

José L.S. Gámez , Interim Dean, College of Arts + Architecture, UNC Charlotte

Eran Neuman , Professor, School of Architecture, Tel Aviv University

Marie Saldana , Assistant Professor, School of Interior Architecture, University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Sergio M. Figueiredo , Assistant Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology

Rebecca Choi , Assistant Professor of Architecture History, School of Architecture, Tulane University

Will Davis , Lecturer in History, Theory and Criticism, Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore

Maura Lucking , Faculty, School of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Kyle Stover , Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Montana State University

Alex Maymind , Assistant Professor of Architecture and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Architecture, University of Minnesota

Gary Riichirō Fox , visiting faculty member at Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and lecturer at USC School of Architecture

Randy Nakamura , Adjunct Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of San Francisco

Aaron Cayer , Assistant Professor of Architecture History, School of Architecture + Planning, University of New Mexico

Whitney Moon , Associate Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Todd Gannon , Professor of Architecture, the Knowlton School, Ohio State University

Dora Epstein Jones , Professor of Practice, School of Architecture, the University of Texas at Austin

Sarah Hearne , Assistant Professor, College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado Denver

PhD Typical Study Program

*The choice of language to fulfill this requirement must be discussed with the Ph.D. Standing Committee

Our Current PhD Cohort

AUD's cohort of PhD candidates are leaders in their fields of study, deepening their scholarship at AUD and at UCLA while sharing their knowledge with the community.

Adam Boggs is a sixth year Ph.D candidate and interdisciplinary artist, scholar, educator and Urban Humanist. His research and teaching interests include the tension between creativity and automation, craft-based epistemologies, and the social and material history of architecture at the U.S.-Mexico border. He holds a BFA in Sculpture Cum Laude from the Ohio State University, and an MFA in Visual Art from the State University of New York at Purchase College. Prior to joining the doctoral program at UCLA he participated in courses in Architecture (studio and history) at Princeton University and Cornell University. His dissertation analyzes the history of indigenous labor during the Mexican baroque period to form a comparative analysis with the 20th century Spanish revival architecture movement in Southern California and how the implementation of the style along the U.S.-Mexico border might function as a Lefebvrian “thirdspace” that disrupts binary thinking. In Spring 2024 he will teach an undergraduate seminar course at AUD on the history of architecture at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of the CUTF program.

Hanyu Chen is a second-year doctoral student at UCLA AUD. Her research focuses on the intersection between (sub)urban studies, heritage conservation, and the genders of the space. Specifically, it concerns the dynamics of genders in (sub)urban areas and how these dynamics are conserved as heritage. Born and raised in China for her first 18 years, Hanyu chose the conservation of comfort stations in China as her master's thesis at the University of Southern California, where she earned her master’s degree in Heritage Conservation and officially started her journey in architecture. Her thesis discusses the fluidity and genders of comfort stations and how they survive in contemporary China’s heritage conservation policies.

Hanyu also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in AMS (Applied Mathematics and Statistics) and Art History from Stony Brook University.

Yixuan Chen

Yixuan Chen is an architectural designer and a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA. Driven by an impulse to demystify both the grand promises and trivial familiarities of architecture, her research embarks on the notion of everydayness to elucidate the power dynamics it reveals. She investigates the conflicts between these two ends and focuses on modernization across different times and places.

Prior to joining UCLA AUD, she was trained as an architect and graduated from the University of Nottingham's China Campus with a first-class honors degree. Her graduation project “Local Culture Preservation Centre,” which questioned the validity of monumental architecture in the climate crisis, was nominated for the RIBA President's Medal in 2016.

She also holds a Master of Arts degree with distinction in Architectural History from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Her dissertation, “Shijing, on the Debris of Shijing,” explores the vanishing shijing places, or urban villages, where rural migrant workers negotiate their urban identity in Chinese cities, revealing shifting power relations. Additionally, she authored an article in Prospectives Journal titled "Architectural Authorship in ‘the Last Mile,’" advocating for a change to relational architectural authorship in response to the digital revolution in architecture.

Pritam Dey is an urban designer and second-year doctoral student at UCLA AUD. His research interest lies at the intersection of colonial urbanism, sensorial history, and somatic inquiries. His architecture thesis investigated the crematorium and temple as sensorial infrastructure, and was presented at World Architecture Congress at Seoul in 2017. Previously Dey worked in the domain of urban design, specifically informal markets, as a shaper of urbanism in Indian cities. Prior to joining the AUD doctoral program, his past research focused on investigating the role of informal and wholesale markets in shaping up urbanity in the Indian city cores and co-mentored workshops on Urbanity of Chitpur Road, Kolkata with ENSAPLV, Paris which was both exhibited at Kolkata and Paris. He also co-mentored the documentation of the retrospective landscape of Hampi with the support of ENSAPLV and French Embassy. His investigations on the slums of Dharavi title ‘The tabooed city’ was published in the McGill University GLSA Research series 2021 under the theme: the city an object or subject of law?

An urban designer and architect, Pritam Dey pursued his post graduation from School of planning and Architecture, Delhi. During his academic tenure at SPA, he was the recipient of 2018 Design Innovation Center Fellowship for Habitat design allowing him to work on the social infrastructure for less catered communities in the Sub Himalayan Villages. In 2022 He mentored a series of exhibitions on the theme of Water, Mountains and Bodies at Ahmadabad.

He was the 2022-23 Urban Humanities Initiatives Fellow at UCLA and recipient of 2023 UCLA Center for India and South Asia fellowship for his summer research.

Carrie Gammell

Carrie Gammell is a doctoral candidate working at the intersection of architectural history, property law, and political economy. Her research focuses on claims, investments, and intermediary organizations in the United States, from the Homestead Act of 1862 to the Housing Act of 1934.

Carrie is also a Senior Research Associate at cityLAB UCLA, where she studies state appropriations for California community college student housing. In the past, she contributed to Education Workforce Housing in California: Developing the 21st Century Campus, a report and companion handbook that provides a comprehensive overview of the potential for land owned by school districts to be designed and developed for teachers and other employees.

Prior to joining AUD, Carrie worked as an architectural designer in Colombia and the United States, where she built a portfolio of affordable housing, multi-family residential, and single-family residential projects as well as civic and cultural renovations and additions. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Rice University and a Master in Design Studies (Critical Conservation) from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Anirudh Gurumoorthy

Anirudh Gurumoorthy is a PhD candidate at UCLA AUD. His dissertation, tentatively titled (Un)Certain Tropics and the Architecture of Certain Commodities, 1803-1926, focuses on the spatial and environmental histories of natural history/sciences in the long-nineteenth century as it related to the political economy of empire within South Asia. He is interested in the ways the materiality of commodity extraction and production contends with how, where, and why certain ‘tropical’ animals, vegetables, and minerals are attributed with a metropolitan sense of ‘value’. Moving from the United States to Britain (and back) through various parts of the Indian Ocean world as markets for singular forms of ice, rubber, and cattle form, peak, and collapse, the dissertation ultimately aims to reveal interconnected spatial settings of knowledge, control, regulation, display, and labor where knowledge systems, technical limits, human and nonhuman action/inaction, differentiated senses of environments and value continually contend with each other to uphold the fetishes of the world market. Gurumoorthy holds a B.Arch. from R.V. College of Architecture, Bangalore, and an M.Des in the History and Philosophy of Design and Media from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Chi-Chia Hou

Chi-Chia Hou is a doctoral candidate in his sixth year at UCLA AUD. His working dissertation, “New Frontier: Architecture and Service 1893-1960,” explores his interest in architecture and wealth, changing ideas of profit and management, and social scientific discourses for measuring work and worker, self and others, and values of landed property.

His research locates moments of theorizing methodologies to manage income-generating properties in schools of agriculture, home economics, and hotel studies. The schools taught their students theories, while instilling the imminence of faithful direction of oneself, of self-as-property. The pedagogies, existing beyond the purview of Architecture, were of immense architectural consideration.

Chi-Chia Hou took a break from school in the previous academic year to learn from his daughter and has now returned to school to learn from his brilliant cohorts.

Adam Lubitz

Adam Lubitz is an urban planner, heritage conservationist, and doctoral student. His research engages the intersection of critical heritage studies and migration studies, with an emphasis on how archival information can inform reparations. His community-based research has been most recently supported by the Columbia GSAPP Incubator Prize as well as the Ziman Center for Real Estate and Leve Center for Jewish Studies at UCLA.

Prior to joining AUD, Adam worked at World Monuments Fund within their Jewish Heritage Program, and taught GIS coursework at Barnard College. His master's thesis applied field research with experimental mapping techniques in the old town of a municipality in Palestine. Adam holds MS degrees in Historic Preservation and Urban Planning from Columbia University and a BA in Urban Studies from New College of Florida.

José Monge is a PhD candidate in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design. His dissertation, titled Maritime Labor, Candles, and the Architecture of the Enlightenment (1750-1872) , focuses on the role that whale-originated illuminants, specifically spermaceti candles and oil, played in the American Enlightenment as an intellectual project and the U.S. as a country. By unravelling the tension between binaries such as intellectual and manual labor–the consumers that bought these commodities and the producers that were not able to afford them–the project understands architecture as a history of activities that moved from sea to land and land to sea, challenging assumptions about the static “nature” of architecture.

Kurt Pelzer

Kurt Pelzer is a fourth-year PhD candidate at UCLA AUD. Their research explores the relational histories, material flows, and politics of land in and beyond California in the long nineteenth century during the United States parks, public lands, and conservation movements.

Their current scholarship traces the settler possession and exhibitionary display of a Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in the 1850s; an act that contested the ways Miwok peoples ancestral to California's Sierra Nevada knew and related to life and land. Their broader interests include histories of colonialism and capitalism in the Americas, environmental history, and Blackness and Indigeneity as a methodological analytic for political solidarities and possibilities.

Prior to arriving at UCLA, Pelzer worked at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in the Architecture and Design Curatorial Department participating in exhibitions, programming, and collections work. Pelzer completed a Master of Advanced Architectural Design in the History, Theory, and Experiments program from California College of the Arts in San Francisco, and earned their Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture from the College of Design at Iowa State University.

Shota Vashakmadze

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Shota Vashakmadze is a sixth-year PhD candidate at UCLA AUD. His dissertation traces the conjoined histories of architectural computing, environmental design, and professional practice in the late 20th century, adopting critical approaches to architecture’s technical substrates—the algorithms, softwares, and user protocols of computation—to examine their social and political dispositions. In his scholarship and pedagogy, he aims to situate forms of architectural labor within the profession’s ongoing acculturation to environmental crisis. Most recently, he has been leading the development of the interdisciplinary “Building Climates” cluster, a year-long course sequence at UCLA, and co-organizing an initiative dedicated to fostering discourse on climate change and architecture, including a two-day conference entitled “Architecture After a Green New Deal.”

His research has been supported by the Canadian Centre for Architecture and appeared in journals including Architectural Theory Review , The Avery Review, and Pidgin Magazine. He is currently completing a contribution to a collection on landscape representation and a chapter for an edited volume on architecture, labor, and political economy.

Shota holds an MArch from Princeton University and has a professional background in architecture, landscape, and software development. Before coming to UCLA, he researched methods for designing with point cloud data and wrote Bison, a software plugin for landscape modeling.

Alexa Vaughn

Alexa Vaughn (ASLA, FAAR) is a first year PhD student in Architecture + Urban Design and a Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellow , from Long Beach, California. She is a Deaf landscape designer, accessibility specialist, consultant, and recent Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (2022-23). She is a visionary speaker, thought leader, prolific writer and researcher, and the author of “ DeafScape : Applying DeafSpace to Landscape,” which has been featured in numerous publications.

Her professional work is centered upon designing public landscapes with and for the Deaf and disabled communities, applying legal standards and Universal Design principles alongside lived experience and direct participation in the design process. She is an expert in designing landscapes for the Deaf community (DeafScape) and in facilitation of disabled community engagement. Prior to joining the A+UD program, Alexa worked for several landscape architecture firms over the course of six years, including OLIN and MIG, Inc.

Through a disability justice lens, her dissertation will seek to formally explore the historical exclusionary and inaccessible design of American urban landscapes and public spaces, as well as the response (activism, policy, and design) to this history through the present and speculative future. She will also actively take part in activist- and practice-based research with cityLAB and the Urban Humanities Institute .

Alexa holds both a BA in Landscape Architecture (with a minor in Conservation and Resource Studies) and a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture (MLA) from the University of California, Berkeley, with specialization in accessible and inclusive design. Much of her work can be found at www.designwithdisabledpeoplenow.com and on Instagram: @DeafScape.

Yashada Wagle

Yashada Wagle is a third year PhD student in Critical Studies at UCLA AUD, and a recipient of the department's Moss Scholarship. Her research focuses on imperial environmental-legislative regimes in British colonial India in the late nineteenth century. She is interested in exploring questions around the histories of spaces of extraction and production as they network between the metropole and the colony, and their relationship with the conceptions of laboring bodies therein. Her master's thesis focused on the Indian Forest Act of 1865, and elucidated the conceptualization of the space of the ‘forest’ through the lenses of its literary, legislative, and biopolitical trajectories, highlighting how these have informed its contemporary lived materiality.

Wagle holds a Bachelor in Architecture (BArch) from the Savitribai Phule Pune University in India, and a Master in Design Studies (History and Philosophy of Design and Media) from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She was previously a Research Fellow at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies (KRVIA) in Mumbai, India.

In her spare time, Wagle enjoys illustrating and writing poetry, some of which can be found here .

Dexter Walcott

Dexter Walcott is a registered architect currently in his fifth year with the Critical Studies of Architecture program at UCLA. His research focuses on the Latrobe family and early nineteenth century builders in the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys. He is interested in the role of the built environment in histories of labor, capitalism, steam-power, and industry.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Joy is a fifth-year PhD student in architecture history. Her research explores geology as antiquity from early 19th – 20th century British colonial Hong Kong and China. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature with a focus in German from Middlebury College in 2017, and is a graduate of The New Normal program at Strelka Institute, Moscow in 2018. Previously, she has taught in the Department of Architecture at University of Hong Kong, as well as the Department of Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

After working as a curatorial assistant at Tai Kwun Contemporary in 2019, she has continued the practice of art writing and translation, collaborating with many local Hong Kong artists as well as international curators such as Raimundas Malašauskas. In her spare time, she practices long-distance open water swimming. In 2022, she completed a 30km course at the South of Lantau Island, Hong Kong.

The MA and PhD programs welcome and accept applications from students with a diverse range of backgrounds. These programs are designed to help those interested in academic work in architecture develop those skills, so we strongly encourage that you become familiar with fundamental, celebrated works in the history and theory of architecture before entering the program.

Applicants to the academic graduate programs must hold a Bachelor’s degree, or the foreign equivalent. All new students must enter in the fall quarter. The program is full-time and does not accept part-time students.

Applications for the MA and PhD programs (Fall 2024 matriculation) will be available in Fall 2023, with application deadline of January 6, 2024; please revisit this page for updates. Accepted candidates who wish to enroll must file an online Statement of Intent to Register (SIR) by April 15, 2024.

How to Apply

Applying to the MA and PhD programs is an online process via the UCLA Application for Graduate Admission (AGA).

Completing the requirements will take some time, so we strongly recommend logging in to the AGA in advance to familiarize yourself with the site and downloading the documents and forms you will need to complete your application.

You can also download this checklist to make sure you have prepared and submitted all the relevant documents to complete your application.

Your Statement of Purpose is a critical part of your application to the MA and PhD programs. It is your opportunity to introduce yourself and tell us about your specific academic background, interests, achievements, and goals. Our selection committee use it to evaluate your aptitude for study, as well as consideration for merit-based financial support.

Your statement can be up to 1500 words in length. Below are some questions you might want to consider. You don’t need to answer every question; just focus on the elements that are most relevant to you.

• What is your purpose in applying to the MA or PhD program? Describe your area(s) of research interest, including any areas of concentration and specialization.
• What experiences have prepared you for this program? What relevant skills have you gained from these experiences? Have your experiences led to specific or tangible outcomes that would support your potential to contribute to this field (e.g. performances, publications, presentations, awards or recognitions)?
• What other information about your past experience might help the selection committee in evaluating your suitability for this program? E.g. research, employment, teaching, service, artistic or international experiences through which you have developed skills in leadership, communication, project management, teamwork, or other areas.
• Why is UCLA Architecture and Urban Design the best place for you to pursue your academic goals?
• What are your plans for your career after earning this degree?

Your Personal Statement is your opportunity to provide additional information to help the selection committee evaluate your aptitude for study. It will also be used to consider candidates for UCLA Graduate Division fellowships related to diversity. You can read more about the University of California Diversity Statement here .

Your statement can be up to 500 words in length. Below are some questions you might want to consider. You don’t need to answer every question; just focus on the elements that are most relevant to you.

• Are there educational, personal, cultural, economic, or social experiences, not described in your Statement of Purpose, that have shaped your academic journey? If so, how? Have any of these experiences provided unique perspective(s) that you would contribute to your program, field or profession?
• Describe challenge(s) or barriers that you have faced in your pursuit of higher education. What motivated you to persist, and how did you overcome them? What is the evidence of your persistence, progress or success?
• How have your life experiences and educational background informed your understanding of the barriers facing groups that are underrepresented in higher education?
• How have you been actively engaged (e.g., through participation, employment, service, teaching or other activities) in programs or activities focused on increasing participation by groups that have been historically underrepresented in higher education?
• How do you intend to engage in scholarly discourse, research, teaching, creative efforts, and/or community engagement during your graduate program that have the potential to advance diversity and equal opportunity in higher education?
• How do you see yourself contributing to diversity in your profession after you complete your academic degree at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design?

A Curriculum Vitae (résumé of your academic and professional experience) is recommended but not required.

Applicants must upload a scanned copy of the official transcripts from each college or university you have attended both in the U.S. and abroad. If you are accepted into the program you will be required to submit hard copies. These can either be sent directly from each institution or hand-delivered as long as they remain in the official, signed, sealed envelopes from your college or university. As a general rule, UCLA Graduate Division sets a minimum required overall grade-point average of 3.0 (B), or the foreign equivalent.

As of this Fall 2023 cycle, the GRE is NOT required as part of your application to UCLA AUD. No preference will be given to those who choose to submit GRE scores as part of their application.

However, if you do take the GRE exam and wish to include it as part of your application: More information on this standardized exam can be found at www.ets.org/gre . In addition to uploading your GRE scores, please direct ETS to send us your official score sheets. Our ETS codes for the GRE are below:

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Institution Code: 4837 Department Code: 4401

We recommend you take the exam at least three weeks before the application deadline as it usually takes 2-3 weeks for ETS to send us the test scores.

If you have received a Bachelor’s degree in a country where the official language of instruction and primary spoken language of daily life is not English, you must submit either a Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or an International English Language Testing System (IELTS). Exempt countries include Australia, Barbados, Canada, Ireland, Jamaica, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. This is a requirement that is regardless of your visa or citizenship status in the United States.

To be considered for admission to the M.Arch. program, international students must score at least a 92 on the TOEFL or a 7 on the IELTS exam. Because processing, sending, and receiving TOEFL and IELTS scores can take several weeks, international students must schedule their exam no later than October 31 in order to meet UCLA deadlines. TOEFL scores must be sent to us directly and uploaded as part of the online submission. Our ETS codes for the TOEFL are below:

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Institution Code: 4837 Department Code: 12

If your score is less than 100 on the TOEFL or 7.5 on the IELTS, you are also required to take the English as a Second Language Placement Examination (ESLPE) on arrival at UCLA. The results of this test will determine any English as a Second Language (ESL) courses you need to take in your first term of residence. These courses cannot be applied towards your minimum course requirements. As such, you should expect to have a higher course load than students not required to take ESL courses.

If you have earned a degree or completed two years of full-time college-level coursework in the following countries, your TOEFL / IELTS and ESLPE requirements will be waived: U.S., U.K., Canada (other than Quebec), Australia, and New Zealand. Please provide official transcripts to demonstrate course completion. Unfortunately, we cannot accept any other documentation to demonstrate language proficiency.

Three (3) letters of recommendation are required. These letters should be from individuals who are familiar with your academic and professional experiences and can evaluate your capacity to successfully undertake graduate studies at UCLA. If you do not have an architecture background please note that we are looking for letters that evaluate your potential as a graduate student, not necessarily your architecture experience.

Letters of recommendation must be sent electronically directly to UCLA by the recommender. When logged in, you can enter the name and email address of each of your recommenders. They will be contacted by email with a request to submit a letter on your behalf. You can track which letters have and have not been received. You can also send reminders to your recommenders to send their letters.

Writing samples should illustrate an applicant’s capacities for research, analytical writing and scholarly citation. Texts may include seminar papers, theses, and/or professional writing.

Please complete and submit the Department Supplement Form to confirm your intention to apply to the MA or PhD program.

Ronald Vroon

• BA, Russian and English, University of Michigan (1969)
• MA, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan (1971)
• PhD, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan (1978)
• The works of Velimir Khlebnikov
• The poetry of Aleksandr Sumarokov
• The history of the Russian lyric sequence
• Archaism in Russian culture

Publications

• Velimir Xlebnikov’s Krysa : A Commentary. Stanford: Stanford Slavic Studies, 1988.
• Velimir Xlebnikov’s Shorter Poems: A Key to the Coinages. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Michigan Slavic Materials, 1983.
• Sumarokov. Ody toržestvennyia. Elegii ljubovnyia. Reprintnoe vosproizvedenie izdanii 1774 goda. Prilozhenie: Redaktsii i varianty. Dopolneniia. Kommentarii. Stat’i . [A. Sumarokov. Solemn Odes. Love Elegies. Redactions and Variants. Supplementary Texts. Commentary. Essays ]. Moscow: Izd. OGI, 2009).
• Khlebnikov. “Großuch”. Faksimil’noe vosproizvedenie rabochei tetradi. Transkriptsiia. Svodka tekstov. Commentariia [ The “Großuch”: A Facsimile Reproduction of the Notebook, Transcription, Reconstruction, Commentary ]. Moscow: Azbukovnik Publishers. Forthcoming 2016).

Edited Books

• Jurij Lotman. The Structure of the Artistic Text. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Materials, 1977. 300 pp. (with Gail Lenhoff; translated, with Preface: i-vii; annotations throughout).
• The Structure of the Literary Process. with P. Steiner and M. Červenka. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co., 1982. 613 pp.
• Velimir Khlebnikov. Collected Works , Vol. II. Tr. Paul Schmidt. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989. 400 pp.
• Readings in Russian Modernism: To Honor Vladimir Markov . UCLA Slavic Studies. New Series II. Ed. with John Malmstad. Moscow: Nauka, 1993. 406 pp.
• Velimir Khlebnikov. Collected Works , Vol. III. Tr. Paul Schmidt. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
• Poetika, istoriia literatury, lingvistika: sbornik k 70-letiiu Viacheslava Vsevolodovicha Ivanova [ Essays on Poetics, Literary History and Linguistics. Presented to Viacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday ]. Ed. A. A. Visagin, R. Vroon, M. L. Gasparov et al. Moscow: Izd. OGI, 1999.
• I vremia i mesto: Istoriko-filologicheskii sbornik k shestidesiatiletiiu Aleksandra L’vovicha Ospovata [ A Time and a Place: An Historico-Philological Collection in Honor of Alexander L’vovich Ospovat’s Sixtieth Beirthday ]. Moscow, 2008. 640 pp. Ed. R. Vroon, R. Leibov, A. Nemzer et. al.
• Velimir Khlebnikov v XXI stoletii. statei [ Velimir Khlebnikov in the 21st Century ]. Co-edited with V. Tereekhina, N. Pertsova, and S. Starkina. Moscow, 2013.

Recent Articles

• “Matematika ili mistika: k voprosu o nauchnosti istoriosofskikh vzgliadov Velimira Khlebnikova” [“Mathematics or Mysticism? On the Scientific Foundations of Velimir Khlebnikov’s Historiosophic Views”]. Nauchnye kontseptsii XX vekas i russkoe iskusstvo . Belgrade, 2011. 42-71.
• “Liricheskii tsikl” [“The Lyric Cycle”]. In Teoriia literatury. Proizvedenie . ed. Iu. B. Borev, N. K. Gei et al . Moscow: Instut mirovoi literatury im. Gor’kogo, 2011. 126–159.
• “K genezisu tsiklicheskikh obrazovanii v lirike Aleksandra Bloka” [“On the Genesis of Cyclic Structures in the Lyrics of Alesandr Blok”]. Shakhmatovskii vestnik 13: “Nachala i kontsy” : zhizn’ i sud’ba poeta. Materialy mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii, posviashchennoi 90-letiiu so dnia smerti A. Bloka . Ed. I. Prikhod’ko. Moscow, 2013. 276-95.
• “Poetry Speaks to Power: Panegyric Responses to Peter III, Catherine II and the Coup d’État of 1762.” Russian Literature 75, 1-4 (2014). 563-590.
• “A Russian Futurist in Asia: Velimir Khlebnikov’s Travalogue in Verse.” Central Asia in Global History: Writing Travel at a Cultural Crossroads . Ed. Nile Green. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013. 170-192.
• “Akusticheskaia pamiat’ kak sverkhlichnostnyi tvorcheskii impul’s (na materiale Nabokova, Brodskogo i dr.)” [“Acoustic Memory as a Supra-personal Creative Impulse (Nabokov, Brodskii et al.)”]. In Pamiat’ literaturnogo tvorchestva. Lidiia Sazonova, Moscow, 2014. 449-57.
• “K kharakteristike nauchnogo naslediia V. F. Markova” [“V. F. Markov’s Scholarly Legacy“]. In Metodologiia I praktika russkogo formalizma: Brikovskii sbornik . Vypusk II: Materialy mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii “II Brikovskie chteniia.” . Moscow, 2014. 75–83.
• “Futurizm i Arkhaizm. Zametki k teme” [“Futurism and Archaisms: Some Notes”]. In 1913: Slovo kak takovoe. K iubileinomu godu russkogo futurizma,. Materialy mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii (Zheneva, 10–12 aprelia, 2013) . St. Petersburg, 2015. 113-130.
• “K istokam khlebnikovedeniia v russkom zarubezh’erii” (“On the Origins of Kholebnikov Studies in the Russian Diaspora”). In Velimir Khlebnikov i russkii avangard. Materialy nauchnoi konferentsii. Velikii Novgorod. 17-19 oktiabria 2014. T. V. Igosheva. Moscow: Azbukovnik, 2015.
• “‘Lichnaia’ mifologiia v poeme V. Khlebnikova ‘Khadzhi-Tarkhan’ (k rekonstruktsii zamysla poemy)” [“V. Khlebnikov’s ‘Personal’ Mythology in the Narrative Poem ‘Khadzhi-Tarkhan’ (Toward a Reconstruction of the Poem’s Underlying Plot”]. Velimir Khlebnikov i mirovaia khudozhestvennaia kul’tura. Materialy XII Mezhdunarodnykh Khlebnikovskikh chtenii, posviashchennykh 130-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia Velimira Khlebnikova. Astrakhan: Izd. dom “Astrakhanskii universitet,” 2015. 6-19.

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Olga Yokoyama

Professor Yokoyama’s training at Harvard was officially in Slavic linguistics, but as a graduate student, she took as many courses in the Linguistics Department as in her home department. As a junior faculty member at Harvard, she taught mostly Russian language courses in the Slavic Department and Discourse Grammar in the Linguistics Department. After receiving tenure in 1987, she taught the whole spectrum of graduate synchronic Slavic linguistics courses in the Slavic Department, as well as continuing to offer Discourse Grammar in the Linguistics Department. After moving to UCLA in 1995, she taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Slavic. She moved to the Applied Linguistics Department in 2004, where she taught functional grammar, gender linguistics, and discourse theory of translation. Since 2014, her teaching shifted to the Linguistics Department, and most recently to the College. She has held the rank of Distinguished Professor since 2012, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Russian Federation Ministry of Education and Science, Tyumen’ Federal University, in 2013.

Professor Yokoyama has over 100 publications on a wide range of topics, and has presented her work at over 130 conferences and invited lectures in 12 countries. Her long-term experience abroad includes a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship in Moscow, an NEH Research Fellowship in Siberia, and a Visiting Research Professorship in Kyoto.

Professor Yokoyama’s research covers a broad range of areas in functional syntax and semantics, discourse grammar, discourse modeling, translation theory, gender linguistics, Slavic philology, Russian intonation and word order, poetics, folklore, and what she calls  pragmaphilology ; most recently, she has been working on developing a neuropsychological experimental method to assess linguistic Empathy and on I.P. Pavlov Her research has been supported by multiple research grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies, among others.

Publications

Books authored

1980         Studies in Russian Functional Syntax (Harvard Studies in Syntax and Semantics III, Part II). Harvard University Linguistics Department: Cambridge, MA. 328 pp.

1986         Discourse and Word Order . Benjamins: Amsterdam-Philadelphia. 361 pp.

Reviews: Mignot, Xavier. Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 83.2: 67-69. 1988. Brown, James E. Russian Language Journal 42 (141/143): 354–356. 1988. Janko, T.E. Naučno-texničeskaja informacija 12.2: 30-32. 1990. Golubeva-Monatkina, N.I. Voprosy jazykoznanija 1991.2: 148-152. 1991. Růžička, Rudolf. Kratylos 37: 21-31. 1992.

2005         Kognitivnaja model’ diskursa i russkij porjadok slov (A Cognitive Discourse Model and Russian Word Order). Transl. by G.E. Krejdlin. Jazyki slavjanskoj kul’tury: Moskva. 420 pp. [authorized translation with revisions of 1986]

2008         Russian Peasant Letters: Texts and Contexts . 2 vols. Verlag Otto Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden. 983 pp.

Reviews: Herzberg, Julia. Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 57.2: 270-272. 2008/9 Bohac, Rodney D. The Russian Review 68.4: 710-712. 2009. Turner, S. Slavic and East European Journal 53.3: 533-535. 2009. Feest, David. Historische Literatur 8-2010-2: 407-409. 2010. Labunec, N.V., & D.E. Ertner. Vestnik Tjumenskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta 2010.1: 279-281. 2010. Rozanova, N.N. Voprosy jazykoznanija 2010.4: 122-127. 2010. Kasatkina, R.F. Russkij jazyk v naučnom osveščenii 21.1: 310-315. 2011. Lehfeldt, Werner. Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie , Bd. 67.2: 441-444. 2012. Kasatkina, R.F. Izvestija rossijskoj akademii nauk : ser . literatury i jazyka, 72.2: 65-70. 2013. Kretschmer, Anna. Wiener Slavistisches Jarhrbuch, NF. 1, 327-330. 2013.

2010         Russian Peasant Letters: Life and Times of a 19th-century Family . Verlag Otto Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden. 258 pp.

2014         Pis’ma russkix krest’jan: teksty i konteksty (Russian peasant letters: texts and contexts), 2 vols. Transl. by M.A. Ossipova, A.V. Ter-Avanesova, S.N. Ushakova. Jazyki slavjanskoj kul’tury: Moskva. 952 pp. [authorized translation with revisions of 2008]

Books edited

1990         Harvard Studies in Slavic Linguistics , vol. 1. Harvard University Slavic Linguistics Colloquium: Cambridge, MA. 360 pp.

Reviews: Jacobson, L.C.J. Slavic Review 53.4: 1143-1144. 1994. Neil Bermel. Slavic and East European Journal 38.4: 724-725.

1993         Harvard Studies in Slavic Linguistics , vol. 2. Harvard University Slavic Linguistics Colloquium: Cambridge, MA. 265 pp.

1995         Harvard Studies in Slavic Linguistics , vol. 3. Harvard University Slavic Linguistics Colloquium: Cambridge, MA. 242 pp.

1997 (with E. Klenin) Selected Essays of Catherine Chvany . Slavica: Columbus, OH. 391 pp.

Reviews: Krongauz, Maksim Anisimovič. Russian Linguistics 23: 303-306. 1999. Camus, Rémi. Revue des études slaves 72.3/4: 636-640. 2000.

Book chapters

2001a       “Proverbs”, in G. Gerhart & E. Boyle (eds.), The Russian Context , 297-351. Slavica: Bloomington, IN.

2001b       “Science as Language”, in G. Gerhart & E. Boyle (eds.), The Russian Context , 593-618. Slavica: Bloomington, IN.

1975         “Personal or reflexive? – a functional analysis”, in S. Kuno (ed.), Harvard Studies in Syntax and Semantics I, 75-112. Harvard University Linguistics Department: Cambridge, MA.

l976 (with E. Klenin) “The semantics of ‘optional’ rules: Russian personal and reflexive possessives”, in L. Matejka (ed.), Sound, Sign, and Meaning: Quinquagenary of the Prague Linguistic Circle , 249-270. Michigan Slavic Publications: Ann Arbor, MI.

1978         “Reflexivization into adjectival reduced relative clauses in Russian”, Folia Slavica 2.366-375.

1980         “The history of gerund subject deletion in Russian”, in C.V. Chvany & R.D. Brecht (eds.), Morphosyntax in Slavic , 260-272. Slavica: Columbus, OH.

1981         “On sentence-coordination in Russian: a functional approach”, in Papers from the Seventeenth Regional Meeting , 431-439. Chicago Linguistic Society: Chicago.

1982         “Russian word order and Empathy”, in Papers from the Eighteenth Regional Meeting , 521-529. Chicago Linguistic Society: Chicago.

1983         “V zaščitu zapretnyx deepričastij (The case for dangling participles)”, in M.S. Flier (ed.), American Contributions to the Ninth International Congress of Slavists , vol. I, Linguistics, 373-381. Slavica: Columbus, OH.

1985         “A diversified approach to Russian word order”, in R.D. Brecht & M.S. Flier (eds.), Issues in Russian Morphosyntax , 187-208. Slavica: Columbus, OH.

1986a       “Lexical frequency and its implications: the case of Contemporary Edited Russian”, Slavic and East European Journal 30.2: 147-166

1986b       “High frequency vocabulary in Russian and in American English: A sociolinguistic comparison”, in A.L. Crone & C.V. Chvany (eds.), New Studies in Russian Language and Literature , 291-302. Slavica: Columbus, OH.

1987         “Towards a unified framework of Russian intonation”, in Proceedings of The Eleventh International Congress of Phonetic Sciences , vol. 2, 505-508. Tallin Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR: Tallin.

1988a       “Disbelief, lies, and manipulations in a Transactional Discourse Model”, in H. Parret (ed.), Rhetoric of Lying ( Argumentation 2.1): 131-149.

1988b (with B. Vine) “Sound patterns in the Slovo o polku Igoreve: comparative and theoretical perspectives on Old Russian poetics”, in J.G. Harris (ed.) Amercian Contributions to the Xth International Congress of Slavists , 415-433. Slavica: Columbus, OH.

1990a       “K analizu russkix sočinitel’nyx sojuzov (Towards an analysis of Russian coordinating conjunctions)”, in N.D. Arutjunova (ed.), Protivorečivost’ i anomal’nost’ teksta , 190-194. Nauka: Moskva. Reprinted in N.D. Arutjunova & N.F. Spiridonova (eds.), 2003, Logičeskij analiz jazyka: Izbrannoe 1988-1995 , 247-250. Indrik: Moskva.

1990b       “Responding with a question in Colloquial Russian”, in O.T. Yokoyama (ed.), Harvard Studies in Slavic Linguistics , vol. 1, 175-194. Harvard University Slavic Linguistics Colloquium: Cambridge, MA. Also in M.H. Mills (ed.), Topics in Colloquial Russian , 1-16. Peter Lang: NY.

1990c       “Reinterpreting the IK system: a phonological approach”, in O.T. Yokoyama (ed.), Harvard Studies in Slavic Linguistics , vol. 1, 195-214. Harvard University Slavic Linguistics Colloquium: Cambridge, MA

1991a       “Towards a formal definition of discourse categories”, in W. Bahner, J. Schildt & D. Viehweger (eds.), Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Congress of Linguists , 2265-2268. Akademie-Verlag: Berlin.

1991b       “Shifters and non-verbal categories of Russian”, in L.R. Waugh & S. Rudy (eds.), New Vistas in Grammar: Invariance and Variation (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 49), 363-386. Benjamins: Amsterdam-Philadelphia.

1992a       “Sociolingvističeskij aspekt russkoj intonacii (Sociolinguistic aspects of Russian intonation)”, Russistik 1.92: 6-16.

1992b       “Teorija kommunikativnoj kompetencii i problematika porjadka slov v russkom jazyke (A theory of communicative competence and the problem of Russian word order)”, Voprosy jazykoznanija 6: 94-102.

1993a       “Narrative intonation in Zoščenko”, in O.T. Yokoyama (ed.), Harvard Studies in Slavic Linguistics , vol. 2, 214-242. Harvard University Slavic Colloquium: Cambridge, MA. Also in E. Semeka-Pankratov (ed.), 1995, Studies in Poetics: Commemorative Volume for Krystyna Pomorska (1928-1986), 559-588. Slavica: Columbus, OH.

1993b       “Oppozicija svoj-čužoj v russkom jazyke (The opposition svoj-čužoj in Russian)”, in R.A. Maguire & A. Timberlake (eds.), American Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists , 452-459. Slavica: Columbus, OH.

1993c       “Discourse, word order and the human factor”, in E. Hajičová (ed.), Functional Description of Language, 253-269. Charles Univ. Press: Prague.

1994a       “Iconic manifestation of interlocutor distance in Russian”, Journal of Pragmatics 22: 83-102.

1994b       “Speaker Imposition and Short Interlocutor Distance in Colloquial Russian”, Revue des études slaves LXVI/3: 681-697.

1995a       “Slavic linguistics as a discipline and an occupation in the United States”, Journal of Slavic Linguistics 2.2: 186-200.

1995b       “Slavic Discourse Grammar and the literary text”, in O.T. Yokoyama (ed.), Harvard Studies in Slavic Linguistics , vol. 3, 187-212. Harvard University Slavic Colloquium: Cambridge, MA.

1996         “Non-propositional encoding of discourse categories”, in B.H. Partee & P. Sgall (eds.), Discourse and Meaning , 17-29. Benjamins: Amsterdam-Philadelphia.

1997         “Impozicija i intonacija (Imposition and intonation)”, in Ch. Sappok & L.V. Bondarko (eds.), Bjulleten’ fonetičeskogo fonda russkogo jazyka 6: 28-39. Bochum-St. Petersburg.

1998         “Kommunikativnye neudači v ramkax Transakcionnoj modeli diskursa (Communicative failures in the framework of the Transactional Discourse Model)”, in M.Ja. Glovinskaja (ed.), Liki jazyka , 122-130. Moskva: Nasledie.

1999a       “The Speech Act Empathy Hierarchy and Russian possessives”, in A. Kamio & K. Takami (eds.), Function and Structure , 57-82. Benjamins: Amsterdam-Philadelphia.

1999b       “Russian genderlects and referential expressions”, Language in Society 28: 401-429.

1999c       “Gender linguistic analysis of Russian children’s literature”, in M.H. Mills (ed.), Slavic Gender Linguistics , 57-84. Benjamins: Amsterdam-Philadelphia.

2000a       “Teaching heritage speakers in the college Russian language classroom”, in O. Kagan & B. Rifkin (eds.), The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages and Cultures , 467-475. Slavica: Bloomington, IN.

2000b       “Èmpatija v ramkax transakcionnoj modeli diskursa (Empathy in the Transactional Discourse Model)”, in L.P. Krysin (ed.), Russkij jazyk segodnja , 276-286. Azbukovnik: Moscow.

2001         “Neutral and Non-Neutral Intonation in Russian: A Reinterpretation of the IK System”. Die Welt der Slaven XLVI.1: 1-26.

2002a       “Kognitivnyj status gendernyx različij v jazyke i ix pragmatičeskoe modelirovanie (The cognitive status of genderlinguistic distinctions and their pragmatic modeling)”, in J. van Leeuwen-Turnovcová, K. Wullenweber, U. Doleschal, & F. Schindler (eds.), Gender-Forschung in der Slawistik , 29-40. Wiener slawistischer Almanach (Sonderband 55): Vienna. Also in M.E. Glavackij et al. (eds.), 2003, Izvestija Ural’skogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta 25, Serija Problemy obrazovanija, nauki i kul’tury , vyp. 13, 12-19. Ural Univ. Press: Ekaterinburg.

2002b       “Markirovannost’ t.n. nejtral’noj intonacii: po dannym detskoj reči (The markedness of so-called neutral intonation: evidence from child language)”, Problemy fonetiki IV, 148-157.

2003a       “Svoi i čužie: mežkul’turnaja kommunikacija i ètničeskie stereotypy v čexovskoj Rossii (Ours and aliens: cross-cultural communication and ethnic stereotypes in Chekhovian Russia)”, in N.A Kupina, & M.B. Xomjakov (eds.), Filosofskie i lingvokul’turologičeskie problemy tolerantnosti , 463-474. Ural Univ. Press: Ekaterinburg. Republished in 2005 in: Zolotaja kollekcija , 455-466. OLMA-Press: Moscow.

2003b       “Speech genre differences in the fundamental frequency of Russian men and women”, in J. van Leeuwen-Turnovcová & U. Röhrborn (eds.), Beiträge des Gender-Blocks zum XIII. Internationalen Slavistenkongress in Ljubljana , 7-28. Verlag Otto Sagner: München.

2003c       “Nejtral’naja i nenejtral’naja intonacija v russkom jazyke: avtosegmentnaja interpretacija sistemy intonacionnyx konstrukcij (Neutral and non-neutral intonation in Russian: an autosegmental reinterpretation of the IK system)”. Voprosy jazykoznanija 2003.5: 99-122. [revision & translation of 2001]

2003d (with M. Krause & Ch. Sappok) “Accentual prominence in a Russian dialectal text: an experimental study”, Russian Linguistics 27.3: 251-285.

2003e       “Intonacija kak sredstvo xarakteristiki kommunikativnogo modusa povestvovanija v zoščenkovskom tekste (Intonation as means of characterization in the narrative communicative mode in texts by Zoščenko)”, Russkij jazyk v naučnom osveščenii 2003.6: 127-143.

2004a       “Sokrovennyj sub”ekt: pragmasemantika japonskogo teksta (The covert subject: the pragmasemantics of Japanese texts)”, in Ju.D. Apresjan et al. (eds.), Sokrovennye smysly: slovo, tekst, kul’tura , 426-436. Jazyki slavjanskoj kul’tury: Moscow.

2004b       “Pragmasemantika referentnyx vyraženij v pis’max krest’jan konca 19-go veka (The pragmasemantics of referential expressions in late 19th-century peasant letters)”, in A.N. Eremin (ed.), Semantika i pragmatika jazykovyx edinic , 310-326. Kaluga Univ. Press: Kaluga.

2004c       “Na styke semantiki, sintaksisa i pragmatiki: preljudija k sintaksičeskomu analizu predikativov (Where semantics, syntax, and pragmatics overlap: preliminaries to a syntactic analysis of ‘predicatives’)”, in M. Krause & Ch. Sappok (eds.), Slavistische Linguistik 2002: 323-345. Otto Sagner: München.

2005         “Znaki prepinanija v krest’janskix pis’max konca XIX v. (Punctuation in late XIX c. peasant letters)”, in V.N. Toporov et al. (eds.), Jazyk, ličnost’, tekst , 619-636. Jazyki slavjanskoj kul’tury: Moscow.

2006a       “Word order in spoken discourse”, in K. Brown (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics , 2nd ed., vol. 12, 88-95. Elsevier Science: Oxford.

2006b       “Discourse grammar vs. prescriptive stylistics”, in Proceedings of the 27th Berkeley Linguistics Society Meeting, 327-337. Berkeley, CA.

2006c       “Culture and Language: Realia Explored through Linguistics”, in Y. Kawaguchi, I. Kameyama, N. Tomimori, & T. Takagaki (eds.), Sinpoziumu, kouenkai, kenkyuu houkoku , 105-120. TUFS: Tokyo.

2006d       “The logic of socially-transmitted superstitions”. International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 44-45: 403-410.

2006e       “Norma i normalizacija v ‘naivnyx’ pis’max krest’jan konca XIX-go v. (Linguistic norm and normalization in late XIX c. ‘naïve’ peasant letters)”, in L.P. Krysin et al. (eds.), Russkij jazyk segodnja: Problemy jazykovoj normy , IV, 248-259. Inst. rus. jaz. im. V.V. Vinogradova RAN: Moskva.

2007a       “Pozdnjaja zaimstvovannaja leksika v pis’max krest’jan konca XIX-go veka (Lexical borrowings in late XIX c. peasant letters)”, in E.A. Zemskaja et al. (eds.). Jazyk v dviženii , 214-224. Jazyki slavjanskoj kul’tury: Moskva.

2007b       “Priloženie v nenormirovannoj častnoj perepiske krest’jan konca XIX-go v. (Apposition in the non-normative personal correspondence of late XIX c. peasants)”, in M.V. Ljapon & A.B. Kudelin (eds.), Jazyk kak materija smysla , 395-407. Azbukovnik: Moskva.

2008         “Gender-linguistic phenomena across languages: how universal are they?”, in M. Takeuchi (ed.), Individual Languages and Language Universals , 59-94. Kanagawa Univ. Press: Yokohama.

2009a       “Linguistics as a diagnostic tool for textual ineptness: Narrative perspective in Zamjatin’s ‘Navodnenie’”. E. Kelih, V.V. Levickij, & G. Altmann (eds.), Metody analizu teksta / Methods of Text Analysis , 328-344. RUTA-Publishing House: Černivci.

2009b       “Sentence and Phrase Intonation”, in S. Kempgen, P. Kosta, T. Berger, & K. Gutschmidt (eds.), Die slavischen Sprachen , vol. 1, ch. 10, 115-128. Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin-New York.

2009c       “Discourse, Sentence Intonation, and Word Order”, in S. Kempgen, P. Kosta, T. Berger, & K. Gutschmidt (eds.), Die slavischen Sprachen , vol. 1, ch. 49, 707-714. Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin-New York.

2010 (with B. Vine) “PIE * (h 1 )euh 1 -d h – ‘excrete liquid’ and Russian dialectal udut (3 pl.)”, in T.M. Nikolaeva (ed.), Issledovanija po lingvistike i semiotike , 191-197. Jazyki slavjanskoj kul’tury: Moscow.

2011a       “Speaking from experience”. Issues in Applied Linguistics 18.2: 215-222.

2011b       “Gender v pis’max krest’jan 19-go veka (Gender in 19th century peasant letters)”, in Regina Nohejl, Friderike Karl, & Elisabeth Cheauré (eds.), Konstrukty nacional’noj identičnosti v russkoj kul’ture: vtoraja polovina XIX stoletija – Serebrjanyj vek , 141-152. RGGU Univ. Press: Moscow.

2012         “K metateorii perevoda: perevod kak diskurs (Towards a metatheory of translation: translation as discourse)”, in M.V. Ljapon (ed.), Čelovek o jazyke – jazyk o čeloveke , 152-160. Azbukovnik: Moscow.

2013         “Sentential Stress in written texts: evidence from literary and dialectal Russian”. Phonological Studies 16: 109-115.

2014a       “Modeling the shifting face of the discourse mediator”, in J. Árokay, J. Gvozdanović & D. Miyajima (eds), Divided Languages? Diglossia, T ranslation and the R ise of M odernity in Japan, China, and the Slavic World , 161-180. Springer: Heidelberg-New York.

2014b       “The use of the ‘polite vy ’ in Russian: a pragmatic change in progress”, in M.S. Flier, D.J. Birnbaum, & C.M. Vakareliyska (eds.), Philology Broad and Deep: In Memoriam Horace G. Lunt , 341-361. Slavica: Bloomington IN.

2014c       “Referencija 1-go l. mn. č. kak pokazatel’ identičnosti v pis’max krest’jan 19-go veka (1 p. pl. reference as identity index in 19 th century peasant letters)”, in M.L. Kalenčuk & D.M. Savinov (eds.), Problemy fonetiki (i ne tol’ko), vol VI , 248-255. AST-Press: Moscow.

2017         “Encounters with Roman Jakobson”, Slavistika XXXII, 3-6.

2018a       “Ro-man Yakobuson to no deai” (authorized annotated translation of 2017 into Japanese by K. Yamanaka), Renyxa, vol. 8, 195-206. Dept. of Contemporary Literary Studies, The Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo: Tokyo.

2018b       “Control in dangling participles”, in D. Gunkel, S.W. Jamison, A.O. Mercado, & K. Yoshida (eds.), Vina Diem Celebrent, 459-470. Beech Stave Press: Ann Arbor-New York.

2018c       “Ot zerkal’nyx nejronov k reči: èmpatija v mozgu i v jazyke (From mirror neurons to speech: Empathy in the brain and in language)”, in D. Szumska & K. Ozga (eds.), Jazyk i metod , vol. 6, xx-yy. Wyd. Universytetu Jagellońskiego: Kraków. (to appear)

2018d (with M. Cohen, T. Kann, & E. Zaidel) “Correlations between Linguistic Empathy and Social Empathy as evidence for shared mechanisms of perspective taking” (in progress).

Reviews and review articles

1982         Paul Garde, Grammaire russe , vol. 1: Phonologie-morphologie. Slavic Review 41.2: 396.

1986         Joost J. van Baak (ed.), Signs of Friendship: To Honour A.G.F. van Holk . Slavic and East European Journal 30.3: 434-436.

1987         Roman Jakobson, Russian and Slavic Grammar: Studies 1931-81 , L.R. Waugh & M. Halle (eds.). Folia Slavica 7: 377-379.

1988         Michael S. Flier & Alan Timberlake (eds.), The Scope of Slavic Aspect . Slavic and East European Journal 32.1: 157-159.

1989         Richard D. Brecht & James S. Levine (eds.), Case in Slavic . Slavic and East European Journal 33.1: 144-147.

1992         Roman Jakobson, On Language , L.R. Waugh & M. Monville-Burston (eds.). The Russian Review 51.4: 579-580.

1995         Per Durst-Andersen, Mental Grammar: Russian Aspect and Related Issues . Journal of Pragmatics 23: 13-18.

1996         Alexander V. Bondarko, Functional Grammar: A Field Approach . Journal of Pragmatics 24: 335-343.

2012         “Responding to Bara: tightening, explicating, and making consistent”, Intercultural Pragmatics 9.3: 385-397.

Books translated

1967 (with Y. Okada) Soveeto seisin igaku niuumon (Introduction to Soviet psychiatry); by N.V. Vinogradov, Lekcii po psixiatrii , Minsk, 1963. Iwasaki Scientific Publisher: Tokyo. 246 pp.

1979 (with Y. Okada) Koozi sinkei katudoo no kyakkanteki kenkyuu (An objective examination of higher nervous activity); by I.P. Pavlov, Polnoe sobranie sočinenij , vols. 3.1 (392 pp.) & 3.2 (438 pp.), Moskva, 1951. Iwasaki Scientific Publisher: Tokyo. 619 pp.

2021 (working title) I.P. Pavlov, Complete Works, volume III (pts. 1 and 2): A Translation . Oxford University Press: Oxford-New York. (in progress)

Articles translated

1975         “On information-bearing structure of the sentence”; by Vilém Mathesius (O tak zvaném aktuálním členění vĕty), Slovo a slovesnost 5, 171-174, Prague, 1939. In S. Kuno (ed.) Harvard Studies in Syntax and Semantics I, 467-480. Harvard University Linguistics Department: Cambridge, MA.

1984a (with B. Vine) “Morphological Observations on Slavic Declension”, by R. Jakobson, “Morfologičeskie nabljudenija nad slavjanskim skloneniem”. In R. Jakobson, Russian and Slavic Grammar: Studies l931-81 , L.R. Waugh & M. Halle (eds.), 105-133. Mouton Publishers: New York.

1984b (with B. Vine) “Contribution to the General Theory of Case”, by R. Jakobson, “Beitrag sur allgemeinen Kasuslehre: Gesamtbedeutung der russischen Kasus”. In R. Jakobson, Russian and Slavic Grammar: Studies 1931-81 , L.R. Waugh & M. Halle (eds.), 59-103. Mouton Publishers: New York.

1984c (with B. Vine) “Structure of the Russian Verb”, by R. Jakobson, “Zur Struktur des russischen Verbums”. In R. Jakobson, Russian and Slavic Grammar: Studies 1931-81 , L.R. Waugh & M. Halle (eds.), 1-14. Mouton Publishers: New York.

1998         Interview of O.T. Yokoyama, jointly with E.A. Zemskaja. S. Koester-Thoma; In Russistik 21-22:115-126.

2001         Interview of O. T. Yokoyama. N.A. Kupina; In M.B. Xomjakov (ed.); In Tolerantnost’ 1:151-154. Urals Univ. Press: Ekaterinburg.

2007         “Ljubeznyj syn Vasilij Lavrovič! (Beloved son Vasily Lavrovich)”, Otečestvennye zapiski 2007.5: 344-358.

2013         Interview of O. T. Yokoyama. Irena Gecevič, Universitet i region 27/28:16-18. Tjumen’ Univ.: Tjumen’.

2016         “My 79 Cents: The Productivity Gap between Male and Female Senior Faculty at UCLA”, in Reports and Initiatives Regarding Gender Equity at UCLA , Gender Equity . UCLA Center for the Study of Women. https://csw.ucla.edu/2016/08/08/79-cents-productivity-gap-male-female-senior-faculty-ucla/

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Murphy Hall, which houses UCLA administration offices, is pictured. The Office of Student Conduct has summoned students arrested for participating in the Palestine solidarity encampment for hearings. (Daily Bruin file photo)

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May 30, 2024 2:51 p.m..

Students arrested for participating in the Palestine solidarity encampment have been called for student hearings by the Office of Student Conduct.

The encampment began April 25, was declared unlawful April 30 and was dismantled May 2 by police. Over 200 students were arrested on charges of unlawful assembly, with some having court dates scheduled for the summer. 

According to a May 24 letter summoning students to conduct hearings, some encampment participants were alleged to have breached UCLA Student Conduct Code provisions relating to disorderly behavior, disturbing the peace and failure to comply with university instructions. The statement said the allegations relate to a failure to disperse when asked to do so by UCPD on May 1 and May 2.

The students were summoned to meet with the assistant dean of students to discuss their allegations.

Student A, a graduating fourth-year student who received the letter and was granted anonymity out of fear of retaliation, said the notification came as a surprise, adding that they are now concerned about the meetings’ impacts on their graduation and future graduate school plans.

“It definitely wasn’t something we were expecting, especially since three weeks had passed since May 1 and since the arrest,” they said.

Student A said a lack of information about the hearings, the questions that will be asked and the potential outcomes of the hearings pose additional challenges because they do not know how to prepare. They added that they intend to answer questions honestly and comply with the proceedings so that they can graduate.

The May 24 letter said that no final decision had been made about the outcomes of conduct cases.

According to the UCLA Student Conduct Code , meetings with the dean can lead to warnings, sanctions or a referral to the Student Conduct Committee, which is composed of student and faculty representatives and can rule on the validity of claims and recommend sanctions. Students facing conduct proceedings can also enter settlement agreements with the administration, agreeing to refrain from engaging in certain behaviors, doing community service or participating in educational programs.

Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA, the organization that began the encampment alongside the UC Divest Coalition, said in an Instagram story that it wants students summoned for disciplinary meetings to contact an email address for advice about the meetings. An SJP media liaison declined a request for further comment.

Aya Konishi, a graduate student and representative of United Auto Workers Local 4811 – which represents academic students, employees, graduate students and academic and postdoctoral researchers – said the union had also filed a grievance relating to the conduct meetings because they believe the university is circumventing the disciplinary process outlined for graduate students in their collective bargaining agreement.

Students were also told in May 24 letters that they had to schedule appointments by June 5 or receive holds on their student records and registration. The letter also said students facing disciplinary proceedings would not receive their degrees until assigned sanctions and conditions stemming from the hearings had been completed.

Student B, who also received the letter and was granted anonymity out of fear of retaliation, said the meetings are difficult to schedule, adding that many of the times offered conflicted with their final exams. They added that meeting slots were available for dates on and after May 30 when they signed up.

“I feel very frightened by these proceedings, and it’s hurtful to know that my university not only invited cops onto campus and engaged in violence against peaceful protesters, but after the trauma of that incident, a few weeks later, the university is now trying to discipline me and my peacefully protesting peers by threatening us with disciplinary action,” Student B said.

UCLA Media Relations said they were unable to comment on conduct cases.

Contributing reports by Alexandra Crosnoe and Gabrielle Gillette, Daily Bruin staff.

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