{"id":4255,"date":"2026-09-03T20:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/?p=4255"},"modified":"2026-10-02T13:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:23:15","slug":"quartz-colvin-gerard-avelino-present-at-afla33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/quartz-colvin-gerard-avelino-present-at-afla33\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum Dr. Lydia Newkirk hired as Assistant Professor at UT Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rutgers Linguistics alum Lydia Newkirk (graduated in 2022) recently got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UTLinguistics\">hired<\/a> as an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin for the 2026-2027 academic year. After she finished her PhD at Rutgers, she spent some time as a post-doc at Yale University and then as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 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