We are very happy to announce that Cherlon Ussery will be joining the Carleton Linguistics Department for the 2009-2010 academic year. Professor Ussery earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she majored in Political Science and African and African American Studies. She earned a master’s degree in Linguistics from the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Professor Ussery is currently completing her Ph.D. at the University of Massachussetts, Amherst, where she is working primarily in the areas of syntax and the syntax-morphology interface. Her dissertation is on case and agreement patterns in Icelandic. Professor Ussery will teach three courses in 2009-2010: Ling 115: Introduction to the Theory of Syntax (4a fall term, no prerequisite), Ling 217: Phonetics and Phonology (4a winter term, prerequisite Ling 110), and an elective in the spring term.