Nadeem Siddiqi

Vice-Provost (Graduate Studies)

Nadeem (Dan) Siddiqi is responsible for the operations of Graduate Studies. This includes collaboration with the Faculties on strategic initiatives related to Carleton’s graduate enterprise, and liaising with external graduate-focused bodies and funding agencies.

With an established track record of academic leadership at Carleton, Dan served as the (final) Associate Dean (Programs) in the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs and currently serves as the (now outgoing) chair of the Senate Committee on Curriculum, Admissions, and Studies Policy and the Senate Review Committee. Previously, Dan served as the Associate Director of Linguistics in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies, where he was instrumental in developing Carleton’s graduate programs in linguistics.

Dan did his undergraduate studies in English at the University of California, Davis. He earned his Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Mills College in Oakland, California. He also holds an MA and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Arizona.

Dan is a Professor of Linguistics in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies. His research focuses on formal linguistics and philosophy of science with specializations in morphology, grammatical architecture, and metatheory. Dan is the author of the 2009 monograph Syntax within the Word (Benjamins), is co-editor of the 2016 volume, Morphological Metatheory (Benjamins), and is co-author of the upcoming Constraint-based Morphosyntax (Cambridge).  Additionally, he is the co-creator of Lexical Realizational Functional Grammar (LRFG), a formal model of the human language faculty. He is the co-lead of two research labs: the Feature Competition lab, which spans four Canadian universities, and the LRFG lab, which spans four countries.