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Joseph E. Aoun (Arabic: جوزيف عون) (born 1953) is the seventh president of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, where he took office on August 15, 2006. According to Northeastern's 2015 IRS Form 990, Aoun's current annual salary is $952,445, with an additional $240,469 per year in other compensation. Prior to taking on the presidency at Northeastern, Aoun was dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California. He joined USC in 1982 in the Department of Linguistics, and during his time at USC served as head of the academic Senate.
Aoun was inaugurated as the seventh president of Northeastern on Monday, March 26, 2007.
He is married to Zeina and has two sons, Adrian and Joseph Karim.
Education
- PhD: Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981
- Diploma of Advanced Studies: General and Theoretical Linguistics, University of Paris VIII, 1977
- Masters: Oriental Languages and Literature, Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon, 1975
Honors
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2013
- Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America, 2011
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010
- Doctor of Humane Letters: Anatolia College, 2009
- Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa: Hebrew Union College, 2007
- Chevalier de L’ordre des Palmes Academiques (Knight of the Order of the Academic Palms): French Government, 2006
- Endowed Chair, Anna H. Bing Dean's Chair in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Awards
- MIT Robert A. Muh Alumni Award in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, 2011
- USC Associates Award For Creativity In Research And Scholarship, 1997
- USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, Award for The Syntax of Scope (with A. Li), 1993
- USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, Award for A Grammar of Anaphora, 1988
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