Mary Johnson, Department of Linguistics Student of Distinction

March 27, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

“She approaches everything with real drive, and nothing stands up to her fierce intellect.” – Dr. Chris Golston

Alumni News: Dean’s medalist becomes a linguistics professor across the globe

February 16, 2018.Reading time 9 minutes.

Dr. Jason Brown (third from right) and his team, a group of Naasioi elders and community members on an ethnobiological expedition in Bougainville, collect photographs and record the Naasioi names of plants and animals.

Dr. Jason Brown, a Fresno State alum, was awarded the graduate dean’s medal in 2002 while earning his master’s degree in linguistics. Now he is a professor at the University of Auckland and the head of the Linguistics Society of New Zealand.