Background
Ramsey, Samuel Robert was born on July 27, 1941 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Son of Samuel Robert and Ida Shelton (Taylor) Ramsey.
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Samuel Robert Ramsey
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Samuel Robert Ramsey, American East Asian language and literature educator, linguist. Recipient Outstanding Achievement award American Congress Surveying and Mapping, 1985; Fulbright-Hays fellow Seoul U., 1972-1974, Kyoto U., 1978-1979;Social Science Research Council grantee, 1976, 79, National Museum Ethnography Travel grantee, 1987, Travel and Research grantee Korea Research Foundation, 1993,Research grantee Seoul National U., 1993.
Education
Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute Technology, 1966; Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy, Yale University, 1972; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1975.
Career
Assistant professor East Asian linguistics, Columbia University, New York City, 1975-1984;
associate professor, U. Maryland., College Park, 1984-1988;
acting chair department Hebrew and East Asian languages and literature, U. Maryland., College Park, 1985-1986;
professor East Asian linguistics. Visiting lecturer in Chinese University of Pennsylvania, 1983-1984. Guest lecturer linguistics United States Information Service, Korea, 1973-1974.
Member of advisory board National Foreign Language Center, Washington, 1990, 92-. Presenter papers in field, since 1974. Lecturer in field, since 1979.
Consultant New Jersey Department Higher Education, 1978. Scholar in residence Indiana U., 1982. Member panel National Science Foundation, 1989, unites states department Agriculture, 1988, U. Pittsburgh, 1991, others.
Organizer, chair seminars. Participant, speaker conferences, symposia. Course evaluator; expert witness United States District Court, Maryland., 1992.
Achievements
Membership
With United States Army, 1966-1968. Member Linguistic Society American, Association Asian Studies, Association Teachers Japanese (Executive Committee 1983-1985, 92-94), International Circuit Korean Linguistics (pres.1992-1995), American Association Teachers Korean (secretary since 1994), Tau Beta Pi.
Connections
Married Younghi Kim, December 24, 1969. Children: James William, Julia Kim.
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American
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Recipient Outstanding Achievement award American Congress Surveying and Mapping, 1985. Fulbright-Hays fellow Seoul U., 1972-1974, Kyoto U., 1978-1979;Social Science Research Council grantee, 1976, 79, National Museum Ethnography Travel grantee, 1987, Travel and Research grantee Korea Research Foundation, 1993,Research grantee Seoul National U., 1993.Recipient Outstanding Achievement award American Congress Surveying and Mapping, 1985. Fulbright-Hays fellow Seoul U., 1972-1974, Kyoto U., 1978-1979;Social Science Research Council grantee, 1976, 79, National Museum Ethnography Travel grantee, 1987, Travel and Research grantee Korea Research Foundation, 1993,Research grantee Seoul National U., 1993.