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Linguistics Program

2017 News Archive

Davies and Dubinsky Collaborate on Book

Professors Stanley Dubinsky (University of South Carolina) and William Davies (University of Iowa) will publish Language Conflict and Language Rights: Ethnolinguistic Perspectives on Human Conflict, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. The book explores the many ways in which language is the primary vehicle for personal, ethnic, and national identity.

Who's Heading to Tuscaloosa?

Paul Reed (2016, PhD) has accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Alabama.

A Bilinski Fellow in the Program

Linguistics doctoral student Chris Farina has been awarded a Bilinski Fellowship for the 2016-2017 year. Congratulations!

An Outstanding Dissertation

Helen (Olena) Aydarova received an Outstanding Dissertation Award at Michigan State University. She is a graduate of our MA program.

Granted! A Bilingual Education Study

Congratulations to Jennifer Reynolds who, for her proposal "Adapting the video-cued multivocal method to pilot a study of bilingual education in 4K/Primary school education within a multi-sited transnational migratory circuit," was awarded a grant under the one of the Provost's Social Sciences Grant Program! Well done, Jennifer!

Granted! When SPARCs Fly

Congratulations to Burcu Gökgöz Kurt and Lauren Colomb for receiving SPARC grants to support their doctoral research!

A Dissertation Defended: Sara Lide

Sara Lide successfully defended her dissertation entitled "Southern Language, Ideology, and Identity in a High School Sorority" on Nov. 14. Congratulations, Dr. Lide!

Talk around Town: On Gullah

Tracey Weldon gave an invited talk on Gullah at Georgetown County Library, September 21.

Congratulations to a Long List of Linguists

Congratulations to Tracey Weldon, who received the English Department Teaching Award; to Alexandra Rowe and Linguistics alumni, Rebecca Sue Jenkins (Ph.D., 2000), Elena Schmitt (Ph.D., 2001), Matthew Ciscel (Ph.D., 2002), who were invited to serve on the National Screening Committee for the Fulbright English Language Teaching Assistants Selection; and to Alexandra Rowe for being appointed Commissioner of Commission on English Language Program Accreditation. Congratulations to all!

Three New Bilinksi Fellows

Aubrey Phillips, Sandra Keller, and Sara Lide were awarded Bilinski Foundation fellowships.

Heading off to Cambridge

Axton Crolley, a recent graduate with a Linguistics minor, received a scholarship to complete a one-year master's degree at Cambridge University.

A New Executive Editor in Town

Stanley Dubinsky was named the first executive editor of Language, the premiere journal of the Linguistic Society of America.

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