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Anusha Anand |
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Scott Brewer |
Scott Brewer is a Ph.D. student in historical linguistics, phonology, and dialectology. His current work focuses on consonant shifts in Germanic and their exponents in dialects of British English. Major Professor: |
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Douglas Carlisle |
Douglas Carlisle is a student in the TESOL-certificate Program. He is interested in teaching high intermediate and advanced ESL/EFL students, perhaps abroad, upon completion. Major Professor |
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Hannah Catron |
Hannah Catron is a PhD student specializing in historical linguistics. Her research interests include phonetics, dialectology, and language contact in Germanic languages. She earned her B.A. in Linguistics and German at the University of Iowa and worked for three years as a US Teaching Assistant in Austria through the Ministry of Education |
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Brandon Cooper |
Brandon Cooper is a Ph.D. student focusing in sociolinguistics. He is also pursuing a TESOL Certificate. Major Professor: Committee Members: |
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Brianna Cornelius |
Brianna Cornelius is a Ph.D. student focusing in sociolinguistics. Major Professor: Committee Members: |
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Drew M. Crosby |
Drew Crosby is a M.A./Ph.D. Student concentrating in sociolinguistics and Phonological Theory. His research interests include phonetic variation and change in Korean and Pacific Northwest English Major Professor: |
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Archie Crowley |
Archie Crowley is a student in the Linguistics Ph.D. program. Their research in sociolinguistics focuses on the relationship of language and gender, specifically in the trans and nonbinary communities. They are also interested in language use in online communities and how language is used to challenge/reinforce cis-normative discourses of gender. Major Professor: |
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Maad M. El-Gali |
Maad M. El-Gali is a Ph.D. candidate in the Linguistics Program. His primary concentration lies in second language acquisition. His research focuses on the efficacy of Written Corrective Feedback on improving the fluency and accuracy of written discourses produced by non-native English writers at the university level. His secondary concentration is discourse analysis. He conducted research on several topics within this field, among which were the coming-out stories of gay men from the MENA region and language ideologies towards minority languages in the United States. Major Professors |
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Danielle Fahey |
Danielle is a doctoral student in the Linguistics program. She earned her B.A. in International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and her M.S. in TESOL at McDaniel College in Maryland. Her research interests include language acquisition, bilingualism, and lexical and syntactic processing. Her dissertation project focuses on how degree of overlap modifies the cognate facilitation effect. More information about Danielle's research projects and her full cv. Major Professor: Committee Members: |
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Elena Galkina |
Elena is a Ph.D. student focusing on Second Language Acquisition and Phonetics and Phonology of Bilingualism. She uses acoustic phonetics methodology to examine how speakers of different languages acquire the sound systems of their second languages. Major Professor: Committee Members: |
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Joseph Glass |
Joseph is a M.A. student with a focus on Second Language Acquisition and Teaching English as a Second Language. He's interested in how new media can be used to facilitate foreign language learning. |
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Samuel Hackworth |
Samuel Hackworth is a Ph.D. student in the Linguistics Program, specializing in second language acquisition. Before this, he received his MA in Linguistics from UofSC in 2016 and served as an EFL teacher and teacher trainer in Rwanda with the United States Peace Corps. His research interests are listening comprehension, developing metrics to research non-technologically rich areas, and depth of processing. His non-academic interests include running, cycling, and all things Green Bay Packers. Major Professor: |
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Blake Hedrick |
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Michael Highlander |
Michael's primary research interest is comparative Germanic linguistics with a focus on historical phonology, morphology and morpho-phonology, incorporating dialectal evidence. He has done work in the grouping of Germanic languages using phonological and morphological isoglosses. His dissertation is on the development of diphthongs in Bavarian German dialects . He is minoring in German Literature, and is interested in Medieval and 18th and 19th German Literature. Major Professor: Committee Members: |
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Ruthanne Hughes |
Ruthanne Hughes is a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics. Her primary field is Second Language Acquisition and secondary field is Sociolinguistics. Her research interests include raciolinguistics, second and foreign language acquisition with a focus on EFL, teacher characteristics, and the intersection of theory and pedagogy. Ruthanne is deeply grateful to be a 2020-2021 recipient of the Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellowship. Major Professor: Committee Members: |
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Raymond Knight |
Raymond Knight is a Ph.D. student focusing in second/foreign language acquisition. Major Professors: |
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Paige Kuester |
Paige Kuester is a PhD student with a focus on sociolinguistics. She’s interested in the ways that language and food intersect with different aspects of identity, including race and class. She received her BA from the University of South Carolina in English and Anthropology and her MLIS from the University of Illinois. |
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Price L. Lassahn-Worrell |
Price is a Ph.D. candidate focusing in historical linguistics with a secondary specialization in medieval studies. His current research is focused on the syntax/semantics interface in medieval-era Germanic languages such as Old English, Old High German, Old Saxon, and Old Norse and Celtic languages. He also dabbles in dialect additive approaches to teaching English. He holds a M.A. in English from Idaho State University. Outside of academia, he enjoys acting, philanthropy, and renovating his house. Major Professor: |
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Kanan B. Luce |
Kanan is a Ph.D. student in Linguistics, specializing in psycholinguistics. He is interested in experimental semantics and pragmatics, particularly in the processing of contextually sensitive expressions such as verb phrase anaphora. Major Professors: |
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John "Spud" McCullough |
Spud is a Ph.D. candidate, with an M.A. specializing in Endangered language documentation and conservation from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His research focuses on sociolinguistics, specifically the effect of raciolinguistic ideologies on the trajectory of English-lexified creole languages of the United States. His research interests also include language attitudes and notions of authenticity, authority, and access, digital identity and community construction of marginalized groups, and lavender linguistics. Major Professor: Committee Members: |
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Samantha Martin |
Samantha Martin is a Ph.D. student in the Linguistics Program at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Her subfields are sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, with a focus on language and gender and language in activism. She graduated from SUNY Geneseo in western New York in 2018 with a B.A. in Anthropology and Spanish. Major Professor: |
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Anyssa "AJ" Murphy |
Anyssa (AJ) Murphy is a PhD student studying Historical Syntax. Her research interests include the syntax-semantics interface, particularly in the development of case and case-assignment processes. While her MA work is concerned primarily Classical Greek and atypical case-assignment patterns, her PhD work has been focused on the loss inflectional case in English, particularly in the Genitive. AJ works with Professors Dr. Stanley Dubinsky and Dr. Kurt Goblirsch. Currently she teaches Linguistics 300, Intro to Language Sciences. Major Professor: |
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Peter Nelson |
Peter Nelson is a Ph.D. student focusing in second/foreign language acquisition. |
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Keunhyung Park |
Keunhyung Park is a Ph.D. student focusing in syntactic theory. Major Professor: Committee Members: |
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Dawson Petersen |
Dawson Petersen is an MA/PhD student, focusing on psycholinguistics. His research interests are in primarily in online language comprehension and experimental pragmatics. |
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Paige Pinkston |
Paige Pinkston is a Ph.D. student studying sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. She is interested in language and identity, race, politics, law, media, and the U.S. South. She is currently looking at youth political speech. She has a B.A. in Literature and an M.A. in Second Language Acquisition. Major Professor: |
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Jenna Rees-White |
Jenna is a current M.A. student, with a focus on sociolinguistics. She received her
BA in English at California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo in California.
While there, she also completed a minor in Linguistics and received her TESL Certificate.
In addition to her time as an undergrad at Cal Poly, she also completed her Secondary
Teaching Credential in English. Jenna has taught 6th, 7th, and 8th grade English Language
Arts. She is looking to research variation and indexicality in California, as well
as dipping back into Second Language Acquisition.
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Angelina Rubina |
Angelina Rubina is an international student at UofSC. She is currently working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the UofSC while pursuing a PhD degree in Linguistics (Second Language Acquisition). She got her MA in Linguistics in 2018 from the UofSC, and she has taught for the English Department, the Department of Linguistics, as well as at the International Accelerator Program at UofSC. Her current research interests focus on Russian and English morpho-syntax and pragmatics, the acquisition of Russian as a second or a heritage language, as well as the role of technology in second language teaching. Outside of research, Angelina holds a TESOL Certificate and has extensive experience in teaching English as a foreign and second language at all proficiency levels to both children and adults. Major Professor: |
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Shana Scucchi |
Shana is a second-year MA Student specializing in Second Language Acquisition. Her subfield is in Teaching English as a Second Language, and her research interests include Technology use in the Foreign Language Classroom to facilitate communicative and sociopragmatic competence in non-native University ESL students. Shana spends her free time learning Korean, practicing yoga, and frequenting her favorite local haunt to study on their outdoor deck. |
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Rok Sim |
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Lesley Smith |
Lesley is a PhD student, specializing in Second Language Acquisition. She is interested in second language syntactic processing and psycholinguistic approaches to second-language research. She is also a member of the Neurolinguistics Lab, headed by Dr. Dirk den Ouden. In her free time, she enjoys doing yoga and talking to anyone who will listen about K-Pop. |
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Jiyeon Song |
Jiyeon Song is a PhD student in Linguistics program. She earned her B.A. and M.A. in English Language and Literature at Korea University. Her research interests include phonetics, phonology, sociophonetics, second language acquisition, and syntax. Major Professor: Committee Members: |
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Sarah Wilson |
Sarah Wilson is a Master’s student in Linguistics, with a concentration in Psycholinguistics. She received her B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research interests include language acquisition, lexical and syntactic processing, and language impairment. She is a member of the Aging Brain Cohort in the Aphasia Lab, headed by Dr. Julius Fridriksson. In her free time, Sarah enjoys equestrianism, hiking, reading, and foreign language study. |
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Cheng Xiao |
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