Faculty
Membership on the Linguistics Program faculty is open to UGA faculty who have teaching or research interests in any area of linguistics. While many of the faculty regularly teach LING courses or courses cross-listed between their home departments and Linguistics, others are involved primarily through service on thesis and dissertation committees.
Meghan Armstrong
Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Office: 350E Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-0592
E-mail: mearmst@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Intonational phonology (focusing on the prosody/pragmatics interface), acquisition/psycholinguistics, laboratory phonology, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Southern American English and African American Vernacular English |
Gary Baker
Academic Professional, Department of Romance Languages; Assistant Director, Language Resource Center
Ph.D., University of Florida
Office: 104 Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-0685
E-mail: gkbaker@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Phonetics, phonology
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Sarah Blackwell
Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Office: 237 Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-3151
E-mail: blackwel@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Spanish linguistics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, foreign language teaching and learning/acquisition |
Renate Born
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages
Ph.D., Cornell University
Office: 208 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706-542-2287
E-mail: rborn@uga.edu
Areas of interest: German-American language islands, dialectology and language variation, historical Germanic linguistics, morphology |
Pilar Chamorro Fernández
Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Program in Linguistics
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Office: 240 Gilbert Hall
Phone:
E-mail: chamorro@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Formal semantics and pragmatics; formal semantic and typological theories of temporality, aspect, and modality (TAM); contact linguistics, TAM systems of creoles. The empirical base of my work is data from Spanish, Galician, and Portuguese. |
Liang Chen
Associate Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Office: 542 Aderhold Hall
Phone: 706-542-4566
E-mail: chen@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Language development and disorders, bilingualism, clinical and applied linguistics |
Michael A. Covington
Senior Research Scientist and Associate Director, Artificial Intelligence Center; Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D., Yale University
Office: 111 Boyd Graduate Studies
Phone: 706-542-0358
E-mail: mc@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Computer analysis of speech for psychological research, natural language processing, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and logic programming |
Charles Clay Doyle
Associate Professor, Department of English
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Office: 214 Park Hall
Phone: 706-542-0543
E-mail: cdoyle@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Proverbs and idioms; slang; Southern American English; history of English |
Jonathan Evans
Associate Professor, Department of English; Graduate Coordinator, Linguistics Program; Director, UGA Medieval Studies Program
Ph.D., Indiana University
Office: 306 Park Hall
Phone: 706-542-2229
E-mail: jdmevans@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Old English language and literature, Old Norse literature, paleography, philology as discipline and practice |
Richard Elliott Friedman
Ann and Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies, Department of Religion
Th.D., Harvard University
Office: 211 Peabody Hall
Phone:
E-mail: rfriedma@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Hebrew Bible, Near Eastern languages and civilizations |
Timothy Gupton
Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Office: 244 Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-4730
E-mail: gupton1@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Spanish and Galician syntax with emphasis on the left periphery and clitics, focus fronting, experimental methods, bilingualism, generative acquisition, quantifier raising and scope; syntax-information structure interface |
Baruch Halpern
Covenant Foundation Professor of Religion, Department of Religion
Ph.D.
Harvard
Office:
Phone:
Email: xapwn@uga.edu
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Linda Harklau
Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Office: 125 Aderhold
Phone: 706-542-4521
E-mail: lharklau@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition in adolescents and adults, literacy and academic instruction for language minority students, role of culture and identity in second language learning, qualitative approaches to research in second language acquisition |
Ruth Harman
Assistant Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education
Ed.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Office: 125 Aderhold
Phone: 706-542-4526
E-mail: rharman@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Systemic functional linguistics, critical literacy |
Viktoria Hasko
Associate Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Office: 125G Aderhold Hall
Phone: 706-542-4025
E-mail: vhasko@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second/ foreign language acquisition and instructed learning, computer-assisted language learning and teaching, language and cognition, learner corpus analysis. |
Lewis C. (Chad) Howe
Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Office: 370J Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-583-0792
E-mail: chowe@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Language variation and change, sociolinguistics, language contact |
Mi-Ran Cho Kim
Lecturer, Linguistics Program
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Office: 140 Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-4099
E-mail: mrkim@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Acoustic phonetics, phonology, second language acquisition |
Jared S. Klein
Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Classics; Director, Linguistics Program
Ph.D., Yale University
Office: 226 Park Hall
Phone: 706-542-9261
E-mail: jklein@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Comparative and historical Indo-European linguistics, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Gothic, Classical Armenian |
Keith Langston
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
Ph.D., Yale University
Office: 108 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706-542-2448
E-mail: langston@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Slavic phonology and morphology; sociolinguistics, with a focus on language and identity in the former Yugoslavia; historical Slavic linguistics and accentology |
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
Office: 209 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706-542-2440
E-mail: vleesch@uga.edu
Areas of interest: German syntax with a focus on complexity of phrases, phasehood, reduced infinitive constructions, binding, datives, and inalienable possession; syntax-phonology interface |
Don R. McCreary
Professor, Department of English
Ph.D., University of Delaware
Office: 340 Park Hall
Phone: 706-542-2231
E-mail: mccreary@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition research and pedagogy, bilingual lexicography, and applied linguistics, with specific interests in Japanese as a second language and in English as a second language |
Lioba Moshi
University Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Office: 141 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706-542-2133
E-mail: moshi@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition and pedagogy; African languages; discourse analysis; language, gender, and culture |
Akinloye Ojo
Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
Ph.D., University of Georgia
Office: 246 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706-542-7730
E-mail: akinloye@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Yoruba language and linguistics, applied linguistics and language teaching, and language, culture and society. |
Teresa Perez-Gamboa
Academic Professional, Department of Romance Languages
Ph.D.
Office: 370G Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-3972
E-mail: perezt@uga.edu
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Margaret Lubbers Quesada
Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages; Director, Language Resource Center
Ph.D., Michigan State University
Office: 105 Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-2460
E-mail: quesadam@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Spanish as a second/foreign language, corpus-based data analysis, language learning and technology |
Diana L. Ranson
Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Office: 370L Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-1075
E-mail: dranson@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Language change and variation in the Romance languages |
Alexander Sager
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
Ph.D., Cornell University
Office: 102 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706-542-6211
E-mail: asager@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Middle High German, medieval German literature of courtly love (minne), and the literary, cultural and historical/historiographic relationship between German-speaking lands and eastern Europe, primarily Hungary |
Paula Schwanenflugel
Professor, Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology; Program Coordinator, Applied Cognition and Development
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Office: 329 Aderhold Hall
Phone: 706-542-4273
E-mail: pschwan@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Semantics and semantic development, lexical processing |
Olga Thomason
Lecturer, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
Ph.D., University of Georgia
Office: 216 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706-542-7826
E-mail: olgath@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Historical and comparative Indo-European linguistics, prepositional semantics, Slavic linguistics and folklore, acquisition of Russian by foreign and heritage language learners |
Mark Wenthe
Post-doctoral Teaching Fellow, Linguistics Program
Ph.D., University of Georgia
Office: 103 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone:
E-mail: wenthem@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Indo-European linguistics, Sanskrit, syntax-phonology interface |
Graduate Students
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Lindsey Antonini
Program: M.A.
E-mail: antonini@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Historical linguistics, syntax |
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Corey Barnes
Program: M.A.
E-mail: cabarnes@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Indo-European historical linguistics, phonology |
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Marcus Berger
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: marcberg16@gmail.com
Areas of interest: Theoretical syntax, endangered languages, historical linguistics |
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Laura Brewer
Program: M.A.
E-mail: lbrewer@uga.edu
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Wei Chen
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: wcp72@uga.edu
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Katie Dicken
Program: M.A.
E-mail: kdicken@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Sociolinguistics |
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Caroline Ferree
Program: M.A.
E-mail: ferreecm@uga.edu
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Suzanne Franks
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: scfweb@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition |
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Joshua Hanna
Program: M.A.
E-mail: jhanna10@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Models of theoretical syntax, English dialects, historical Indo-European linguistics, and Germanic linguistics |
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Ryan Hearn
Program: M.A.
E-mail: ryanh@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Historical linguistics |
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Molly Hunsucker
Program: M.A.
E-mail: mshunsuc@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Historical Indo-European linguistics |
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Sofia A. Ivanova
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: sivanova@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition |
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Xiangyu Jiang
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: xiangyu@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, speech perception |
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Moses Katz
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: moses@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Historical linguistics |
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Lisa LaCross
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail:llacross@uga.edu
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Scott Lee
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail:gte577z@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Acoustic phonetics, intonational phonology, French |
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Stephen Looney
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: sdlooney@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition, discourse and pragmatics, intercultural communication, conversation analysis |
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Martin Macak
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: macak@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Historical linguistics, Comparative Indo-European linguistics, Balto-Slavic accentuation, Armenian historical phonology, Slavic linguistics, Germanic linguistics; Theoretical linguistics, Syntax-morphology interface. |
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T. Lloyd Martin
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: lalloyd@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Historical linguistics |
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Sandra McGury
Program: M.A.
E-mail: smcgury@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Syntax, second language acquisition |
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Antje Meyke
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: ameyke@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Sociolinguistics, language contact and variation |
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Ina Dianzungu Mwanda
Program: M.A.
E-mail: imwanda7@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Bantu languages and linguistics, language preservation |
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Tomoe Nishio
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: tnishio@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology |
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Andrew Paczkowski
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: thepacz@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Indo-European linguistics, historical linguistics, syntax |
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Jennimaria Palomaki
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: jennipalo@gmail.com
Areas of interest: Syntax, first- and second-language acquisition |
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Adam Paulukaitis
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: paulukaa@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Indo-European linguistics, Balto-Slavic accentology and syntax, Romance languages |
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Trevor Ramsey
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: rovert@uga.edu
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Nicole Siffrinn
Program: M.A.
E-mail: nsiffrin@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Systemic functional linguistics and critical discourse analysis |
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Tiffany Strickland
Program: M.A.
E-mail: tlstrick@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Historical linguistics |
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Julia Sturm
Program: M.A.
E-mail: jcpsturm@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Historical linguistics |
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Vanessa Swenson
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: vanessar@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Phonetics, phonology, historical linguistics of Iberian languages and dialects |
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Kim Waters
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: ekw2010@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Spanish Linguistics; second language acquisition; phonetics-phonology interface; endangered languages, especially Cherokee |
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Xiaodong Zhang
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: zxd588@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Critical Discourse Analysis, Systemic Functional Linguistics, second language acquisition |
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