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Brent Edward Peterson


Ryan McDonald


Artin Nasirpour

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Ph.D. candidate, Kim Waters, one of several UGA contributors to new sustainability text

Published this month by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman Littlefield, Climate Consciousness and Environmental Activism in Composition: Writing to Save the World (Ecocritical Theory and Practice) edited by Dr. Joseph R. Lease. Now more than ever—in a time when Americans still do not believe that humans are the primary cause of Earth's climate change crisis, the burden on educators to inform, challenge, and motivate students about…
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Devon Fischer

Devon Fischer is a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Georgia. Her primary areas of research include Syntax and Second Language Acquisition. Devon has two BAs, one in Spanish and one in Linguistics, and an MA in Hispanic Linguistics. She currently teaches Spanish at UGA.


Keiko Bridwell

Keiko is a Ph.D candidate specializing in sociophonetics. Her research focuses on the intersection of linguistic variation and identity in Southern American English, frequently with regard to the variable /hw/. She also has experience in psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research. Keiko works as a research assistant in the DigiLab in the library's Department of Research and Computational Data Management, where she gives workshops on digital…

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Kyle Vanderniet presents talk at Emory University

Linguistics graduate student, Kyle Vanderniet, will present a talk about his work at Emory University May 20th, at 3pm in Modern Languages, Room 201. Abstract: Text corpora are the predominant tool used by linguistics to study language. However, because they are comprised chiefly of written sources, they present a problem when exploring natural, authentic language use. I will present my results showing how Reddit can enable linguists to build…
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Thomas Kingsley

Tom is a PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Georgia. His research focuses on language contact in the Balkans and Central Asia and the histories of the languages involved (particularly Albanian and Uzbek). He holds a BA in Linguistics from the University of Oklahoma. Prior to studying at UGA, he worked as an English teacher in Kosovo (Peace Corps) and Spain (Auxiliares de Conversación). In addition to his research, he currently…


Joshua McNeill

Josh is a PhD candidate in sociolinguistics. His primary research interests are in sociolinguistics, particularly language variation in and between French, English, and Creole in Louisiana, on the internet, and in the media. Also, much more generally, he is interested in quantitative methods and open science.
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