D. dissertation, Transformational Analysis (Alene 1999). In 1951, Chomsky was awarded a Junior Fellowship in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Chomsky kept that position until 1955, when he decided to move to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT Chomsky was appointed to the linguistics department at MIT under Morris Halle; Noam Chomsky became a full-time professor there in 1961, and was appointed professor of foreign languages and linguistics in 1966 (Seuren 1998:242). Since 1955, Chomsky has called MIT home and is regarded as the top authority in the study of linguistics. .
Chomsky, became best known as an academic critic of the Vietnam War. Chomsky, joined a group called RESIST, that opposed the draft (Newmeyer 1986:77). In the mid-sixties, Chomsky's work gave him national accolade in the academic community, for his work in linguistics. He shocked his colleagues by taking a public, vocal stand against what Chomsky coined, "the American invasion of Vietnam", in his 1966 essay The Responsibility of Intellectuals (Anderson 1994). His books criticizing American foreign .
policy and the role played by major corporations and mass media are in the general public and became better known than his proven linguistical theories. After the US withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975, he "expanded his field of fire with a string of articles and books" (Lane 1999). Furthermore, Chomsky went into detail on topics such as the Spanish Civil War, Kosovo, and East Timor. Chomsky's political views have grown stronger over the last decade. Chomsky has been actively involved as a political activist and human rights campaigner. While fighting his unrelenting crusade against the media and parliament, Chomsky is used all of his powers of argument against the calls for the US military involvement in Bosnia and Haiti. However, he backs the lifting of the UN embargo on arms sales to Bosnia, he says: .
