{"id":37,"date":"2018-09-05T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/professor-example\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2025-05-01T18:55:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T18:55:35","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kristen-syrett\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-813\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kristen-syrett\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/09\/Kristen-Syrett-RU-graduation-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"style11\" align=\"justify\">I am a Professor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/ling.rutgers.edu\/\">Department of Linguistics<\/a>\u00a0and the Center for Cognitive Science (<a href=\"http:\/\/ruccs.rutgers.edu\/ruccs\/index.php\">RuCCS<\/a>), at <a href=\"http:\/\/nb.rutgers.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rutgers University<\/a>\u00a0I completed my Ph.D. in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguistics.northwestern.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Linguistics<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northwestern.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Northwestern University<\/a> in 2007, with a specialization in Cognitive Science. I joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/ling.rutgers.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rutgers Linguistics<\/a> faculty in 2011. Before that, I had a RuCCS Cognitive Science Fellowship and an NIH NRSA post-doctoral fellowship in Psychology. 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