NCSU Linguistics Faculty & Staff

Agnes Bolonyai | Robin Dodsworth | Jeffrey Reaser
Erik Thomas | Walt Wolfram | Neal Hutcheson

Faculty

AGNES BOLONYAI
Assistant Professor
bolonyai at unity dot ncsu dot edu

Interests: Bilingual first language acquisition and attrition, ‘social grammar’ of code switching, immigrant discourse, identity and ideology in language shift/maintenance, language, gender and power, discourse of emotion, cross-cultural pragmatics

ROBIN DODSWORTH
Assistant Professor
rmdodswo at ncsu dot edu

Interests: Linguistic variation, sociophonetics, social theory and its interface with linguistics, social networks

JEFFREY REASER
Assistant Professor
jlreaser at ncsu dot edu

Interests: Development of dialect curriculum, assessment tools for evaluating language attitudes

ERIK THOMAS
Associate Professor
ethomas at social dot chass dot ncsu dot edu

Interests: Sociophonetics, Vowel quality, Prosody, Ethnic variation, Speech perception, Geographical variation, Sound change

WALT WOLFRAM
William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of English
wolfram at social dot chass dot ncsu dot edu

Interests: Language variation, Ethnic dialects of American English, African American English, Dialect recesssion, Dialect awareness and education, Dialect and the public interest

Staff

NEAL HUTCHESON
Video Producer
nealhut at bellsouth dot net

CHARLOTTE VAUGHN
Design and Marketing
charlotte at talkingnc dot com

Affiliated Faculty at NCSU

Foreign Languages and Literature

Mark Darhower
Assistant Professor
Withers 405
919/513-4807
mark_darhower at ncsu.edu
PhD University of Pittsburgh
Spanish Applied Linguistics; Foreign Language Teaching Methodology; TESOL

Jim Michnowicz
Assistant Professor
Withers 419
michnowicz at ncsu.edu
PhD Penn State University
Hispanic Linguistics, Dialectology, Sociolinguistics, Phonology

Tonya Wolford
Assistant Professor
Withers 417
919/513-0119
tewolfor at chass.ncsu.edu
PhD University of Houston
Spanish Linguistics, Sociolinguistics

Sociology

Ed Kick
Professor
elkick at sa.ncsu.edu
162 Harrelson Hall
919/513-8301

Communication

Daniel A. DeJoy
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1975

Deanna P. Dannels
Assistant Director, Campus Writing and Speaking Program, Basic Course Director (COM 110) and Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Utah, 1999

Stephen Wiley
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1999

Beth Barnes
Teaching Asst Professor
Box 8104

Philosophy and Religion

Ronald P. Endicott
Associate Professor and Director of the Cognitive Science Program
PhD MA (Michigan) BA (Indiana, Indianapolis)
455 Withers Hall
919/515-6195
Specializes in the philosophy of mind, foundations of cognitive science, issues in artificial intelligence, and scientific reduction.

David D. Auerbach
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Senior Advisor in Philosophy
PhD (MIT) BS (City College of New York)
343 Withers Hall
919/515-6331
david_auerbach at ncsu.edu
Specializes in the philosophy of mathematics, mathematical knowledge, and the philosophy of language.

Michael J. Pendlebury
Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department of Philosophy and Religion
PhD MA (Indiana) MA BAHons (Witwatersrand)
340C Withers Hall
919/515-6103
mjpendle at ncsu.edu
Homepage: http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/philo/pendlebury/
Main areas of interest are metaphysics and epistemology and related fields, including philosophy of mind and language and meta-ethics.

John W. Carroll
Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy Honors Director (on scholarly leave Fall 2005)
PhD (Arizona) BA (Carleton)
457 Withers Hall
919/515-6140
carroll at unity.ncsu.edu
Homepage: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~carroll/hpage.htm
Specializes in the philosophy of science, metaphysics, and decision theory. His research has focused on the nature of causation, including its relationships to explanation and rationality.

Computer Science

Robert D. Rodman
Professor
2314- EB II
919/515-7480
Fax: 919/515-7896
rodman at ncsu.edu
Homepage: http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rodman/

R. Michael Young
Associate Professor
2258-EBII
919/513-3038
Fax: 919/513-4357
young at csc.ncsu.edu
Homepage: http://liquidnarrative.csc.ncsu.edu/rmy/index.html

James C. Lester
Associate Professor
2264-EB II
919/515-7534
Fax: 919/513-4357
lester at csc.ncsu.edu
Homepage: http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/lester/
Artificial intelligence, intelligent user interfaces, intelligent tutoring systems, computational linguistics.

Affiliated Faculty at Duke

Edna Andrews
DUS Linguistics Program
Department of Slavic Languages
321B Languages Building
Box 90259
Durham, NC 27708
919/660-3142
fax: 660-3141
eda at acpub.duke.edu

Ron Butters
Chair, Linguistics Program & Co-Director, Cooperative PhD Program in English Linguistics
Professor of English and Cultural Anthropology
312 Allen Building
Box 90015
Durham, NC 27708
919/423-8866
ronbutters at aol.com

Luciana Fellin
Department of Romance Studies
105 Language Center
Durham, NC 27708
919/660-3117
fellin at duke.edu

Reiko Mazuka
Department of Psychology
323 Soc Psych Building
Box 90085
Durham, NC 27708
919/660-5702
mazuka at psych.duke.edu

Hae-Young Kim
Asian & African Languages & Literature
306 Alexander Ave.
Box 90414
Durham, NC 27708
919/660-4364
haeyoung at duke.edu

Karla F. Holloway
Department of English
304F Allen Building
Box 90015
Durham, NC 27708
919/684-8993
karla.holloway at duke.edu

William B. O'Barr
Department of Cultural Anthropology
219 Soc Sci Building
Box 90091
Durham, NC 27708
919/684-8863
william.obarr at duke.edu

Liliana Paredes
Department of Romance Studies
102 Language Center
Box 90257
Durham, NC 27708
919/660-3124 lparedes at duke.edu

Julie Tetel Chair and DUS, Linguistics Program
Department of English
Box 90015
Durham, NC 27708
jtetel at acpub.duke.edu

Ingeborg Walther
Department of Germanic Languages & Literature
116J Old Chem Building - Box 90256
Durham, NC 27708
919/660-3163
waltheri at acpub.duke.edu

Affiliated Faculty at UNC-CH

Connie Eble
Adjunct Professor
UNC Chapel Hill English Department
Greenlaw Hall - CB #3520
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
919/ 962-0469
cceble at email.unc.edu

Misha Becker
Ph.D. 2000, University of California, Los Angeles
http://www.unc.edu/~mbecker
mbecker at email.unc.edu
Office: Dey 324
919/ 962-5009

Jennifer Smith
Ph.D. 2002, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
http://www.unc.edu/~jlsmith
jlsmith at email.unc.edu
Office: Dey 322
919/ 962-1474

Elliott Moreton
Ph.D. 2002, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
http://www.unc.edu/~moreton
moreton at email.unc.edu
Office: Dey 326

Paul Roberge
Ph.D. 1980, University of Michigan
http://www.unc.edu/depts/german/personnel/roberge-p.html
ptr at email.unc.edu
Office: Dey 441
919/ 962-0326

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