PhD Student Sera Chun has won the 2025 Professor Jack Bilmes Endowed Award for her work on her dissertation titled “Second language teachers’ cognition and practices for pronunciation-focused instruction.”
The Professor Jack Bilmes Endowed Award provides support to dissertation-level doctoral students pursuing studies focused on ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, or occasioned semantics within the University of Hawai驶i at M膩noa College of Arts, Languages & Letters (CALL).
聽was a prolific cultural anthropologist whose work explored the development of human societies and cultures. A dedicated scholar and author of聽Discourse and Behavior and The Structure of Meaning in Talk, he was known for his keen analytical mind and contributions to category analysis. Beyond academia, Dr.聽Bilmes聽embraced life fully鈥攑ursuing passions such as tennis, golf, and African drumming.
Congratulations, Sera!