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Ousmane Cisse defends his dissertation prospectus

Last month, PhD candidate Ousmane Cisse successfully defended his dissertation prospectus! His dissertation is based on the preliminary results of his second qualifying paper (QP2). As part of this work, he is investigating graphemic variations in the representation of engma and their sociolinguistic implications in Casamance Mandinka Ajami. His data is from the NEH Mandinka […]

Liza Sulkin defends her dissertation prospectus

Congratulations to PhD candidate Liza Sulkin who defended her dissertation prospectus! A prospectus is a preliminary description of a proposed dissertation. Her dissertation work investigates how F0, CoG of /s/, and speech rate correlate with gender presentation and sexuality for a group of women and assigned female at birth (AFAB) non-binary (NB) people.

Congratulations to our 2025 graduates

This past weekend, we celebrated our undergraduate, master’s, graduate certificate, and doctoral graduates! Pictured left to right is Professor Neil Myler, recently graduated Dr. Lee-Ann Vidal-Covas, Professor Danny Erker, recently graduated Dr. Kevin Samejon, and Professor Kate Lindsey.

Andre Batchelder-Schwab awarded Lewis and Clark field scholarship

Congratulations to Andre Batchelder-Schwab, one of our PhD candidates who was recently awarded a Lewis and Clark field scholarship from the American Philosophical Society. He will use this funding to continue his research on a whistled register of the Kinande language! To learn more about the scholarships, see https://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewis-and-clark-fund-exploration-and-field-research

Jackson Kellogg awarded a GRAF

Very exciting news, PhD candidate Jackson Kellogg was awarded a Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF) to travel to Ethiopia this summer to conduct Amharic research for his dissertation! GRAF awards support foreign-based research by doctoral students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences whose field-based or archival research requires an extended period of residence […]