Carol F. Justus

Carol F. Justus was born on March 21, 1940, in Lodi, Ohio.^[1] She gained an A.B. in French in 1960 at King College, and an M.A. in Linguistics & Comparative Philology at the University of Minnesota in 1966. From 1967 to 1969, she studied at the Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology at LMU Munich. Justus received a Ph.D. in Indo-European linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin in 1973 under the supervision of Edgar C. Polomé. She was assistant professor (1973-1976) and associate professor (1976-1977) of linguistics at State University of New York (1973-1976). From 1982 to 1985, she was a research associate at the Linguistics Research Center at UT Austin, and then associate professor of linguistics at San Jose State University 1989 to 1994.^[2]

Since 1995, Justus served as Adjunct associate professor of classics and Middle Eastern studies at the Classics Department at the University of Texas at Austin.^[1] At Austin, Justus taught Indo-European studies, among other subjects. She was the author of more than 30 scholarly works. Justus served on the editorial board of the Journal of Indo-European Studies and as general editor of General Linguistics.^[2]

Justus died in Austin, Texas on August 1, 2007.^[1]

• Justus, Carol F.; Polomé, Edgar C., eds. (1999). Language change and typological variation : in honor of Winfred P. Lehmann on the occasion of his 83rd birthday. Washington, D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man. ISBN 9780941694698.

• Bridget Drinka
• Joe Salmons
• Winfred P. Lehmann