Joseph Aoun | |
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![]() Aoun in 2008 | |
7th President of Northeastern University | |
Assumed office August 2006 | |
Preceded by | Richard M. Freeland |
Personal details | |
Born | Beirut, Lebanon | March 26, 1953
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]
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