Noah Brandon is a Ph.D. student specializing in historical linguistics and phonology with a secondary interest in sociolinguistics and sociophonetics. His research uses comparative methods and modern dialect data to reconstruct earlier stages of Germanic phonology and to motivate historical sound changes. His MA thesis used modern dialect data to examine the ways in which Norse contact conditioned the phonological development of the English varieties spoken in northern England and southern Scotland. Noah earned his MA in Linguistics and his BA in German from the University of South Carolina.