Kathleen Currie Hall
My first in-person encounter with Doug was when we shared an office at the LSA Summer Institute in Boulder, CO, in the summer of 2011. I was of course thoroughly intimidated as a newly minted professor to be sharing an office with esteemed colleagues like Doug, but he soon set me at ease and then […]
Ọládiípọ̀ Ajíbóyè
Douglas Pulleyblank as I know him Doug, whom I met for the first time in September 1999 revealed himself as a friendly individual and that continued throughout my stay in Vancouver and even after I returned to Nigeria. During the Christmas break in December 1999, he had a party in his house for faculty members […]
Jeff Mielke
It’s good to have a mentor. If it’s not someone who already works where you work, it’s great if they can show up in your city during their sabbatical, especially when you’re a few years into your first tenure-track job and feeling particularly lost. It’s nice, but not necessary, if it’s someone who used to […]
Larry Hyman
Hi Doug, Congratulations on your “promotion”, and welcome to the club (I joined in 2022!). I hope you will find as much joy and discover the many rewards of your freedom as I have, time to continue your important research, be with family, travel, and just indulge. It has been a long and wonderful journey […]
Daniel Lekan Falana
Doug and I belong to a club named Scorpio at the university of Ibadan where he did his first degree. Scorpio is a club established for the purpose of having fun on Campus so we organize parties, picnic just for the purpose letting out steam when the academic duties get us to a point of […]
Bryan Gick
I first met Doug at the 1999 LSA meeting in Los Angeles, at the job interview for the UBC phonetics position I’ve been in ever since! I’ll never forget it! I was feeling a bit under the weather that January day, and not at all like going to a job interview, so some Haskins friends […]
Carla Hudson Kam
While I am currently a colleague of Doug’s, I was once a student of Doug’s. I did my undergraduate degree at SFU, and while there, had the crazy idea to take advantage of the Western Deans agreement and take a course at UBC. This was somewhat unusual for an undergrad, and it was a very […]