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Geoffrey Nunberg
https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/in-memoriam/files/geoffrey-nunberg.html
Geoffrey Nunberg died from brain cancer on August 11, 2020, at the age of 75.
Born on June 1, , and a product of New York and environs, Nunberg went on to receive degrees from Columbia (B.A.), the University of Pennsylvania (M.A.).
A linguist by training, but a polymath by temperament, his affiliation with Berkeley began with a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Human Learning in 1979. His most enduring association, however, was as an adjunct at the School of Information.
There, in 2019, at the invitation of Dean AnnaLee Saxenian, who had brought him in to teach at the school fifteen years earlier, he gave the commencement address. In it, he described the school as inter-, trans-, multidisciplinary, diversciplinary or simply cross-silo.
It takes one to know one: Linguist Geoff Nunberg discusses the apolitical, prosaic prowess of the late New York Times conservative wordsmith.These comments not only reflected his pleasure at playing with words, but also why he and the school were an admirable fit. Faculty and students were beneficiaries of his remarkable ability to engage diverse communities. These included not only different scholarly