Rob Hollander

Rob
Hollander

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Education

Ph.D. Linguistics, Graduate Center, CUNY

Bio

Professor Hollander has taught Autosegmental and Lexical Phonology at the CUNY Graduate Center, The Neurology of Language  at NYU in the Masters Program in Speech Pathology, Cognitive Science & Linguistics at the Thomas Hunter Honors Program and The History of the English Language and The Structure of Modern English in the English Department at Hunter College. He is active in urban planning, helping to coordinate the community planning process in Manhattan's Chinatown and blogs on deperplex.blogspot.com, SavetheLowerEastSide.blogspot.com and LanguageandPhilosophy.wordpress.com. He has most recently been a guest speaker at Columbia's Masters Program in Urban Planning, a speaker and examiner in Columbia's Masters Program in Architecture, has addressed OWS's AltBanking Group on zoning and lectured at the Historic Districts Council on the history of ghetto real estate and the tenement. His interests include the sociology of false beliefs, semiotics, computational models of language and AI, cognitive science and cognitive psychology. 

Scholarly Work

"Architecture of the Ghetto" in A people's history of the Lower East Side vol.ii, Clayton Books:New York, 2012

Foreword, The Bowery: a history of grit, graft and grandeur, History Press:Charleston, SC, 2011

A Bowery Historical Exhibit at The Whole Foods Exhibition Space, Bowery & Houston, 2011

Foreword, Gangsters, murderers and weirdos of New York City's Lower East Side, History Press:Charleston, SC, 2009

Zoning for Dummies, online guide for New York citizens at SavetheLowerEastSide.blogspot.com

"Nouns as properties" CUNYForum, Journal of Linguistics, 1991

Research Summary

Gendered language

Cognitive bias

Urban policy