Linguistics

Grads, Grilled: Daniel Moglen

Daniel Moglen Department

Linguistics

Program and Year of Study

PhD, 7th year

Previous degrees and colleges

MA Linguistics, UC Davis

BA Linguistics, UC Berkeley

Where did you grow up?

Auburn, CA

Where do you live now?

Berkeley, CA

What's your favorite spot in Davis?

Definitely the food co-op

How do you relax?

My main ways to relax include connecting with my friends over food, playing racquetball, maintaining a regular meditation practice, and an occasional yoga class.

21st Century Linguistics

Security on the web has as much to do with the programmers writing code as it does with firewalls and virus protection. Linguistics Associate Professor Raúl Aranovich studies language structure and theory, and is working on a project for the National Science Foundation that could identify programmers most likely to write vulnerable code.

Last year, Aranovich won funding to lead a collaboration with UC Davis computer scientists P. T. Devanbu and V.

Describing Colonial Art: Almerindo Ojeda

Since the 1950s, the study of Spanish colonial art has fallen out of favor among art historians inclined to view colonial paintings as merely "slavish" reproductions of European originals. But Almerindo Ojeda, professor of linguistics at UC Davis and director of the Project on the Engraved Sources of Spanish Colonial Art (PESSCA), disagrees. Rejecting what he calls an "inferiority complex among colonial historians," Ojeda sees important stories embedded in colonial paintings — stories that deserve to be told.

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