“ Moving abruptly online: What it was like for faculty and for students.” MIT Faculty Newsletter. Interview with the famous WNYC music announcer, John Schaefer (third paragraph for the dedication). Pete Wyer, a British composer, dedicates a movement to Miyagawa from his new musical piece, For Love and Only for Love: Letters to New York, premiering at the New York Botanical Garden, December 2020. Pre-publication version Manuscript updated June 20, 2021. Panel on being an Asian-American, hosted by the Chinese Americans of Lexington, MA, May 20, 2021. Miyagawa speaks at the Anti-Asian Hate Solidarity Rally, May 31, 2021, Boston Common. New article, “ What will remain post-pandemic?” MIT Faculty Newsletter Vol. New article, “ On the 20th anniversary of OpenCourseWare: How it began,” MIT Faculty Newsletter Vol. New article, “ What will remain?” Inside Higher Education, June 8, 2021.
History channel article about cave art talks about Miyagawa’s idea of acoustics, cave art, and language. New article, “ Revisiting Fitch and Hauser’s observation that tamarin monkeys can learn combinations based on finite-state grammar” Frontiers in Psychology, November 29, 2021. Miyagawa will be appointed as a visiting faculty member in USP’s Institute of Biosciences. This award, given by the São Paulo Research Foundation, will support research at the University of São Paulo in archeology, biology, neuroscience, linguistics, primatology, and animal communication studies. Miyagawa was awarded the São Paulo Excellence Chair for his work in language and evolution. Syntax in the Treetops published by MIT Press (Linguistic Inquiry monograph), May 3, 2022. WNYC interview with Pete Wyer and John Schaefer. The British composer, Peter Wyer, under a commission from Arts Brookfield of the New York World Financial Center, composed the orchestral and choir piece in part inspired by Shigeru Miyagawa’s Integration Hypothesis. He was awarded the São Paulo Excellence Chair (2022-2025) for his work in language and evolution. It won the 2015 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for radio reporting. It aired in May 2015 on Radio 4, which has a multi-million listener base ( What the Songbird Said). BBC produced a 30-minute special inspired by his Integration Hypothesis of human language evolution. The Integration Hypothesis received mention in the journal Science and its news website ( ). His ideas are developed in jointly authored articles ( Frontiers in Psychology, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2019). He has recently developed a theory of language evolution that hypothesizes that human language arose from the integration of two pre-existing systems in nature, one seen in birdsong, the other in primate alarm calls. Since 2019, he has served as an external board member for Cyber University of the SoftBank Group.Īs a linguist, he has published several books, including three recent ones from MIT Press, and over sixty articles. During 2014 - 2019, he served as Project Professor and Director of Online Education for the University of Tokyo as a joint appointment with MIT. StarFestival was awarded the Distinguished Award at the Multimedia Grandprix 2000 (Japan). He is also the producer of the multimedia program, StarFestival, which stars George Takei as the voice of the main character. Visualizing Japan was a Finalist for the prestigious Japan Prize in 2015. With John Dower, Andrew Gordon of Harvard, and Gennifer Weisenfeld of Duke, he created Visualizing Japan, a Harvard-MIT MOOC offered by edX that has attracted over 20,000 learners world-wide.
He is also Co-director of Visualizing Cultures ( ) with the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, John W. He served on the original MIT committee that proposed OpenCourseWare, and was the Chair of the MIT OpenCourseWare Faculty Advisory Committee, 2010 - 2013.
He was Senior Associate Dean for Open Learning, 2018 - 2021. | MIT has been involved with many aspects of digital learning at MIT.
Kochi-Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language & Culture (post-tenure)
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