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

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

Catherine Coates

Catherine Coates is a PhD student specializing in sociolinguistics. Her primary research interests include language ideologies and language & media. Prior to joining UofSC, she earned her BPhil in Linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh.

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.

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.

Kayleigh Fisher

Kayleigh Fisher is a PhD student specializing in sociolinguistics, with a secondary field in pragmatics. Her research interests include offensive language and reappropriation, language and media, and humor. Before coming to UofSC, Kayleigh earned her MA in Linguistics and TESL from Indiana State University.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Raymond Knight

Raymond Knight is a Ph.D. student focusing in second/foreign language acquisition.

Paige Kuester

Paige Kuester is a Ph.D. 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.

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. 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. He is also the Middle-Aged Medievalist.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Keunhyung Park

Keunhyung Park is a Ph.D. student focusing in syntactic theory.

Dawson Petersen

Dawson Petersen is a PhD student in the linguistics program specializing in Psycholinguistics. He earned an interdisciplinary BS in Psychology and Linguistics from North Greenville University and an MA in Linguistics from the University of South Carolina. His research interests include anthropomorphism, metaphor, conceptual grounding, relevance theory, and ad hoc cognition. His CV is available here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sarah Wilson

Sarah Wilson is a Ph.D. student in the Linguistics program, specializing in Psycholinguistics. She received her B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and is in the process of completing her M.A. at UofSC. Her research interests include lexical and syntactic processing, discourse, and the interface of language, cognition, and memory. She is a member of the Aging Brain Cohort (ABC) team in the Aphasia Lab. In her spare time, Sarah enjoys reading, hiking, horseback riding, visiting historic sites, and spending time with her family.

Cheng Xiao

Cheng Xiao is a PhD student specializing in psycholinguistics and second language acquisition. Her research focuses on the processing of emotional prosody in Mandarin Chinese. She is also interested in using fMRI to examine the brain processing of emotional prosody and semantics for native speakers and L2 learners. She has a B.A. in Humanities Science, a B.Ec. in Finance, and an M.A. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Wuhan University.