Stephen Levinson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Stephen Levinson

British social scientist

Date of Birth: 06-Dec-1947

Place of Birth: London

Profession: linguist, social scientist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Stephen C.
Levinson FBA (born 6 December 1947) is a British social scientist, known for his studies of the relations between culture, language and cognition, currently one of the scientific directors of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Levinson was educated at Bedales School and King's College, Cambridge, where he received a BA in Archaeology and Social Anthropology, and University of California Berkeley where he received a PhD in Linguistic Anthropology.
He has held posts at the University of Cambridge, Stanford University and the Australian National University, and is currently Professor of Comparative Linguistics at Radboud University.
Among other distinctions, he is winner of the 1992 Stirling Prize, Fellow-elect of the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, member of the Academia Europaea, and 2009 Hale Professor of the Linguistic Society of America.
In 2017 Levinson received an honorary doctorate award from Uppsala University.