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Curriculum Vitæ (October 2026). The full CV can be downloaded as a PDF using the icon on the right.
General Information
| Full Name | John Clayton |
| Position | Lecturer in Indo-European Linguistics |
| Affiliation | Program in Indo-European Studies, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Address | Dodd 100, P.O. Box 951417, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417 |
| jclayton@humnet.ucla.edu | |
| Academia.edu | ucla.academia.edu/JohnClayton |
Education
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2017–2023 Ph.D., Program in Indo-European Studies
University of California, Los Angeles, CA - Ph.D., June 2023
- Dissertation: “The Development of the Indo-European *-wr̥-/-wen-Heteroclites in Sanskrit and Beyond”
- Advisor: Stephanie Jamison
- Graduate Certificate in Linguistics, 2022
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2013–2014 B.S. in Computer Science
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR -
2009–2013 B.A. in Linguistics
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Non-Degree Education
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2019 European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
University of Latvia, Rīga, LV -
2019 Summer School in Languages and Linguistics
Leiden University, Leiden, NL -
2018 Latin and Greek Institute
The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY -
2010, 2008 Deutsche Sommerschule am Atlantik
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Employment
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2023– Lecturer in Indo-European Linguistics
University of California, Los Angeles, CA -
2015–2017 Senior Associate Software Engineer
Capital One, McLean, VA
Courses Taught
- Seven courses as instructor of record and ten as teaching assistant at UCLA. See the teaching page.
Publications
- One dissertation, one peer-reviewed article and two editor-reviewed papers. See the publications page.
Presentations
- Sixteen conference talks and posters, 2018–2025. See the presentations page.
Honors, Awards, & Grants
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2026 UCLA DataX 2026 Pilot Projects Grant
University of California, Los Angeles, CA - With Anthony Yates & Wendy Perla Kurtz (co-PIs)
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2021–2 Mellon Foundation Pre-Dissertation Fellowship
University of California, Los Angeles, CA -
2019–20 Graduate Research Mentorship
University of California, Los Angeles, CA - With Prof. David Goldstein
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2017–8 Graduate Dean’s Scholar Award
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Department Service
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2021–3 Webmaster, Program in Indo-European Studies
University of California, Los Angeles, CA -
2017–22 Graduate Representative, Program in Indo-European Studies
University of California, Los Angeles, CA -
2017–22 Indo-European Studies Student Alliance (IESSA) signatory
University of California, Los Angeles, CA -
2017–22 A/V lead, Conference Organizing Committee
University of California, Los Angeles, CA - 29ᵗʰ–33ʳᵈ Annual UCLA Indo-European Conferences
Professional Societies
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2020– Linguistic Society of America
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2021– American Society for Premodern Asia
Research Interests
- Latin/Italic phonology
- Indo-Iranian morphophonology
- Diachronic morphophonology
- Computational phylogenetics
- Indo-European mythology and poetics
- Germanic linguistics
Language Competence
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Speaking and reading
- English, French, German
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Advanced knowledge
- Avestan, Ancient Greek, Gothic, Hittite, Latin, Luwian, Old Norse, Vedic & Classical Sanskrit
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Philological knowledge
- Classical Armenian, Lycian, Middle High German, Middle Welsh, Mycenaean Greek, Old English, Old French, Old Frisian, Old Irish, Old Persian, Palaic, Prakrit (Gāndhārī), Sogdian, Yemba (Dschang)
Technical Skills
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Programming languages
- C/C++, CSS, Google Apps Script, Haskell, HTML, Java, JavaScript, LaTeX, Lua, MASM, PHP, Python, R, Scala, SQL, XML, XQuery
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Operating systems & tools
- Unix/Linux, Windows, macOS, Hadoop, Kafka, Luigi, Spark, Teradata, RevBayes, BayesTraits, Git