PROFESSOR STEVEN PINKER,
HARVARD UNIVERSTIY
wjh.harvard.edu
Dear Moises,
I would be happy to lend my name to an Honorary Board.
Steve Pinker
Steven Pinker is Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he taught in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. He conducts research on language and cognition, writes for publications such as the New York Times , Time , and Slate , and is the author of seven books, including The Language Instinct , How the Mind Works , Words and Rules , The Blank Slate, and most recently, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature .
Steven Pinker, a native of Montreal, received his BA from McGill University in 1976 and his PhD in psychology from Harvard in 1979. After teaching at MIT for 21 years, he returned to Harvard in 2003, where he is Harvard College Professor and the Johnstone Professor of Psychology. Pinker's experimental research on cognition and language won the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences, the Henry Dale Prize from the Royal Institute of Great Britan, and two prizes from the American Psychological Association. He has also received several honorary doctorates and numerous awards for graduate and undergraduate teaching, general achievement, and his books The Language Instinct , How the Mind Works , and The Blank Slate . Pinker has also appeared in many television documentaries and writes frequently in the popular press, including in The New York Times , Time , and The New Republic .
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