Tags: Graduate Students

Meg is from Holden Beach, North Carolina and received her Bachelor's and Master's degree in linguistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is now a fifth-year Ph.D. student at UGA with research interests in sociolinguistics, forensic linguistics and indigenous languages. Currently, Meg is working on her QP2 on Afro-Latine identity in Georgia. Please reach out to Meg via email for CV or other questions. 

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…

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 is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on the intersection of linguistic variation and identity in Southern US English, particularly in the Athens area.  She also has experience in psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research.   Keiko earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in linguistics from the University of South Carolina in 2017 and 2019…

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…

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…