Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1980 M.A. French, Florida State University B.A. French, Florida State University
Languages: Classical and Vedic Sanskrit, Avestan, Old Persian, Greek, Latin, Italic dialects, Hittite, Hieroglyphic Luwian, Gothic, Old Norse-Icelandic, Old English, Old Irish, Lithuanian, Old Church Slavic
Biography and publications: Before joining Berkeley's Department of Linguistics, Holland taught as a Lecturer in Scandinavian Studies and in Near Eastern Studies. His research interests fall into three main...
Robert Tracy, who served on the faculty for more than thirty years, passed away on January 16, 2020, in Berkeley. Professor Tracy was born on November 23, 1928, in Woburn, Massachusetts. He graduated from Boston College in 1950 with a degree in English, with Greek Honors. He went to graduate school at Harvard, where he earned an MA in 1954 and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1960, specializing in Russian, French, and English literatures. In 1956, he and Rebecca Garrison Tracy married, and they remained together for the rest of his life. He joined the English Department at Berkeley as...
It is with deep sadness that the Berkeley Celtic Studies community announces the passing of our beloved lecturer Tom Walsh. Tom died on Friday, January 14, 2022 of complications following surgery. He had been a lecturer in the Program in Celtic Studies since 2010. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1990 from UC Berkeley. He then taught at Occidental College, where he received tenure before his nostos from SoCal to the Bay Area to teach at Stanford, UCSC and UC-Berkeley. His dissertation was published in 2005 by Lexington Books: Fighting words and feuding words...
