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{{short description|American linguist}}
'''Sheila Ellen Blumstein''' (born 1944) is professor emerita of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences at Brown University, where she was the Albert D. Mead Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences. Among other distinctions, she served as the interim president of [[Brown University]] from February 2000 until July 2001 after [[Gordon Gee]] departed and before [[Ruth Simmons]] took the position.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.browndailyherald.com/2015/01/29/sheila-blumstein-former-interim-u-president-enter-phased-retirement/|title=Sheila Blumstein, former interim U. president, to enter phased retirement|last=Reyes|first=Gabriella|date=2015-01-29|website=Brown Daily Herald|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-01}}</ref>  Although Dr. Simmons is deemed the first [[female]] president of the university, Dr. Blumstein's portrait hangs in [[Sayles Memorial Hall|Sayles Hall]] along with those of past presidents.
== Education and academic career ==
Blumstein is a 1965 [[magna cum laude]] graduate in linguistics of the [[University of Rochester]] and she earned her Ph.D. in linguistics at [[Harvard University]] in 1970.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/1970s|title=Harvard Linguistics Alumni - 1970s|website=linguistics.fas.harvard.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-03-01}}</ref> She came to Brown as an assistant professor in linguistics in 1970, was promoted to associate professor in 1976, and became a professor in 1981. She was chairman of the Department of Linguistics from 1978–81, Chairman of the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences from 1986–87, in 1997, and from 1998 to 2000, and Associate Chair from 2008-2010. She has served as Dean of the College at Brown from 1987-1995, as Interim Provost in 1998, and as Interim President from February 2000 to July 2001.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2007-11-24/recalling-sheila|title=Recalling Sheila|website=www.brownalumnimagazine.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-01}}</ref>
Blumstein has published extensively on the neural basis of speech and language processing using both [[lesion]]-based and functional [[neuroimaging]] methods.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=i_6VRWwAAAAJ&hl=en|title=Sheila Blumstein - Google Scholar Citations|website=scholar.google.com|access-date=2019-03-01}}</ref>
== Awards and distinctions ==
Blumstein has served as member of a number of scientific review panels and boards for the [[National Institutes of Health]], the [[National Science Foundation]], and the McDonnell Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience.
She has been the recipient of a number of honors and awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/sheila-e-blumstein/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Sheila E. Blumstein|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-01}}</ref> a Claude Pepper Award from the [[National Institutes of Health]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-12/asoa-seb121314.php|title=Sheila E. Blumstein awarded Silver Medal in Speech Communication|website=EurekAlert!|language=en|access-date=2019-03-01}}</ref> a [[Radcliffe Institute]] Fellowship, and an Honorary Doctorate as well as the Susan Colver Rosenberger Medal, both from Brown University.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://library.brown.edu/cds/portraits/display.php?idno=237|title=Sheila Blumstein - Brown University Portrait Collection|website=library.brown.edu|access-date=2019-03-01}}</ref>
She has been elected fellow of the [[Acoustical Society of America]],<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Acoustical Society of America Silver Medal in Speech Communication: Sheila E. Blumstein|journal = The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America|volume = 136|issue = 4|pages = 2233–2236|doi=10.1121/1.4900087|year = 2014|last1 = Jongman|first1 = Allard|last2 = Sereno|first2 = Joan|last3 = Baum|first3 = Shari|last4 = Lahiri|first4 = Aditi|bibcode = 2014ASAJ..136.2233J|doi-access = free}}</ref> the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], the [[American Philosophical Society]], the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]], and the [[Linguistic Society of America]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.linguisticsociety.org/news/2015/01/02/laurels-linguists-sheila-e-blumstein|title=Laurels to Linguists: Sheila E. Blumstein {{!}} Linguistic Society of America|website=www.linguisticsociety.org|access-date=2019-03-01}}</ref>
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