On the 24th of October I successfully defended my PhD thesis at the Radboud University Nijmegen. I was promoted to doctor cum laude, a rare honour bestowed on only about 5% of PhD dissertations in the Netherlands (the Radboud University, like most universities in the Netherlands, has only one grade of Latin honors).
Promotor
Prof. Dr. Stephen C. Levinson
Copromotors
Prof. Dr. Gunter Senft (Universität zu Köln)
Dr. Felix Ameka (Leiden University)
Manuscript committee
Prof. Dr. Pieter Muysken
Prof. Dr. Tom Güldemann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Dr. Sotaro Kita (University of Birmingham)
Further members of the opposition committee
Prof. Dr. Anne Storch (Universität zu Köln)
Prof. Arie Verhagen (Leiden University)
Dr. Azeb Amha (Leiden University)
Dr. Christian Rapold (Leiden University)
Also check out these press releases related to the thesis and the defense:
Mark,
Once again my congratulations on your promotion! It was a great pleasure to attend the ceremony and I could see the sincere admiration of your promotors for your outstanding performance! I am very proud of you, my brother!
Also greetings from Hilde and our sons.
Aart-Jan
Once again CONGRATULATIONS. I have just downloaded the thesis and will spend many happy hours reading it.
Thanks for your good work
Ferdi
Mark, congratulations and thank you for sharing your thesis!
I will savour it slowly, a chapter at a time.
Best wishes!
Thank you (dankjewel / fɔlobrara / spasiba), Aart-Jan, Ferdinand and Maria!