Tom Priestly's webpage
PERSONAL
Born: 16 May, 1937, Kampala, Uganda
Lived: England, 1943-1966; Canada, 1966-present
Citizenship: British, Canadian
Marital Status: Married, two children
EDUCATION
1946-55: Christ's Hospital, Horsham, Sussex, England
1956: Joint Services School for Linguists, U.K.
1957-60: Downing College, Cambridge (Russian and
German; Slavic History and Linguistics; French Linguistics): B.A. Honours,
1960; M.A., 1965
1960-61: Department of Education, Oxford: Diploma,
1961
1963: Summer course for teachers of Russian, Moscow
1966-70: Simon Fraser University, B.C.: Ph.D., 1972.
(Dissertation: ÒA test of the comparative method: the reconstruction of
Proto-South-East-Slavic.")
1973, 1977, 1988: Seminar in Slovene Language,
Literature & Culture, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
Languages spoken: English, Russian, German, French,
Slovene; also read: other Slavic languages, some Dutch, Italian, Welsh.
EMPLOYMENT
1961-66: Teacher of Russian and German, Withywood
Comprehensive School, Bristol, England
1966-70: Graduate Associate, Simon Fraser
University, B.C.
1970-2002: Assistant Professor (from 1976 Associate
Professor; from 1982, Professor; from 2002, Emeritus Professor) of Russian and
Slavic Linguistics, University of Alberta.
1989-2002: Adjunct Professor, Department of
Linguistics, University of Alberta.
RESEARCH:
see http://ualberta.ca/~tpriestl/CV.htm
Joint Winner, Poetry Competition No.39, Journal of Russian Studies, Jan. 1988
(for translation of Anna Akhmatova, ÒTo the inhabitants of LondonÓ).
ÒFran MiklošičÓ Award, Daniel Berszenyi College,
Szombathely, Hungary, May 27, 1994.
Henry Kreisel Teaching Award, Departments of
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies & Comparative Studies in Literature,
Religion, Film and Media Studies, University of Alberta, for 1998-1999.
McCalla Research Professorship, Faculty of Arts,
University of Alberta, for 2000-2001.
Častni znak svobode Republike Slovenije,
awarded Sept. 19, 2000, conferred Dec. 5, 2000
Federal Chancellery, Republic of Austria, Prize
for Translation ATS 25,000.00, Jan. 2001
Faculty of Arts Research Award, April 2001
University of Alberta Killam Annual Professor,
July 2001-June 2002
Janežičevo priznanje,
Krščanska kulturna zveza, Carithia, Austria, August 2007.
Associate, Urban Jarnik Ethnographic Institute,
Klagenfurt/Celovec, 1997-
Member, Advisory Board, Wirth Centre for
Austrian and East European Studies, 1998-
Member, Scientific Board of the Carinthian
Institute for Ethnic Minorities, 2000-2003
Chair, SSHRC Research Grants Committee 5
(Linguistics), 1991
Assessor for SSHRC Research Grants Applications
(7)
Assessor for Killam Research Fellowship (1)
Assessor for MacArthur Fellowship (1)
ÒPRIESTLY [pristli], Tom,Ó Enciklopedija Slovenije 9 (Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 1995), 335.
Cultural lecturer, Danube cruise, September
1992.
'Glycophilia': I collect sugar-packets; I now concentrate on those from Slovenia, Austria, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Genealogy: On my father's side I have traced links back to the 1810s and 1820s (Jonathan Priestly, Harriet Shaw, David Gullon Pinkney and Mary Ann Garbutt, all of Sunderland and Durham. On my mother's side I have reached as far back as the 1730s-1760s (Joseph Jeffrys and Abel Evans of Shropshire, Willam Yarnold and Mary Edwin of Worcestershire, and Thomas Eccles, Martha Haworth of Blackburn, Lancashire) and to the 1770s (David Thomas Davies and Elizabeth Morgan, both of Monmouthshire; James Pearce and Mary Westrup of Essex).
Links to some websites:
http://myprofile.cos.com/priestlt69
http://www.ethno.at/institut.html
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