Joseph's Path at CSI

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When I first started college, I really didn't know what I wanted to major in. I thought I wanted to do something in the social sciences, maybe anthropology. And then one semester I took a class introduction to linguistics that was taught by professor Christina Tortora and it was excellent and it totally changed the path of my life because after that class I changed my major to english with a concentration in linguistics. I took many linguistics courses as I could at CSIAnd then right after graduating in 2012 I went into the doctoral program in linguistics at the CUNY Graduate center. I liked that there was some overlap in the faculty from C.S.I. And from that program at the grad center. So that certainly helped. And then I graduated from the CUNY Grad Center with a PhD in linguistics in 2020. And very shortly after that I got my position as a postdoctoral researcher at the Macaulay Honors College. And also in the spring of 2020 I started working as an adjunct assistant professor here at CSIIn the linguistics program. So it's true to say that that course intro to linguistics taught by the Professor Tortora really set the trajectory that my life has taken ever since.