Students and Alumni

2009-2010

PhD Students

(Cooperative Program with Duke University)

Erin Callahan

Phillip Carter

Sarah Hilliard


Master's Students

Second Year

  • Michelle Hewitt

    Email: mahewitt at ncsu dot edu
    Interests: Bilingualism: acquisition, code switching, effect on memory; psycholinguistics; sociolinguistics

  • Anna Morgan

    Email: asmorga3 at ncsu dot edu
    Interests: Bilingualism, Second Language Acquisition

  • Jeremy Needle

    Email: jmneedle at ncsu dot edu
    Interests: Discourse analysis, language contact, and language evolution

  • Hannah Pick

    Email: hppick at ncsu dot edu
    Interests: Bilingualism, Education, Language Contact/Change, Dialects and Identity Formation

  • Tom Wilkinson

    Email: tbwilkin at ncsu dot edu
    Interests: Sociophonetics, sociocultural linguistics, SLAAP


Recent Alumni

Ph.D.

  • Jeannine Carpenter, 2009 (Duke, English)
    Dissertation:

    [ Download dissertation here. ]

  • Tyler Kendall, 2009 (Duke, English)
    Post-Doctoral Researcher & Lecturer at Northwestern University
    Dissertation: Speech Rate, Pause, and Linguistic Variation: An Examination Through the Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project

    [ Download dissertation here. ]

  • Christine Mallinson, 2006 (NCSU, Sociology)
    Assistant Professor in the Language, Literacy, and Culture program at University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    Dissertation: The Dynamic Construction of Race, Class, and Gender through Linguistic Practice among Women in a Black Appalachian Community

    [ Download dissertation here. ]

  • Jeffrey Reaser, 2006 (Duke, English)
    Assistant Professor, NC State University Linguistics Program
    Dissertation: The effect of dialect awareness on adolescent knowledge and attitudes

    [ Download dissertation here. ]

  • Ben Torbert, 2004 (Duke, English)
    Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, Saint Louis
    Dissertation: Southern Vowels and the Social Construction of Salience

Master's

2009 Graduates

Hannah Askin
Alexis Smith
Janneke Van Hofwegen
Ashley Wise

2008 Graduates

Erin Callahan
Danica Cullinan
Stephany Dunstan
Mary Kohn
Leah White