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Linguistics Program

2021 News Archive

Plenary Addresses at LSA, NWAV, and SECOL

Professor Tracey Weldon has been invited to give plenary talks at NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) in October 2021, the LSA (Linguistic Society of America) Annual Meeting in January 2022, and the 89th SECOL (Southeastern Conference on Linguistics) in the spring of 2022.

Two McCausland Faculty Fellows

Professors Amanda Dalola and Sherina Feliciano-Santos have been selected as 2021 McCausland Faculty Fellows.

Books by our Linguistics faculty in 2021

Three books by our Linguistics Faculty have been published books in 2021: Sherina Feliciano-Santos' A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity: Language, Social Practice, and Identity within Puerto Rican Taíno Activism (Rutgers University Press), Tracey Weldon's Middle-Class African American English (Cambridge University Press), and Paul Malovrh's Advancedness in Second Language Spanish: Definitions, Challenges, and Possibilities (John Benjamins, co-edited with Mandy Menke).

Graduate Student Awards in 2021-2022

Our outstanding graduate students have received numerous awards during the 2021-2022 academic year. Ph.D. student Archie Crowley was awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant; Ph.D. student Lesley Smith was awarded a 2021 Duolingo Research Grant; Ph.D. students Archie Crowley and John (Spud) McCullough were awarded a David G. Ellison Fellowship in Southern Studies; Ph.D. student Sarah Wilson was awarded the Alpha Kappa Alpha Educational Advancement Foundation merit scholarship; Ph.D. students Drew Crosby and Archie Crowley were each awarded a Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellowship; Ph.D. student Archie Crowley was awarded a C.C. Royal Fellowship from the Graduate School.

Graduate Student Awards in 2020-2021

Ph.D. student Ruthanne Hughes was awarded a Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellowship. Four Ph.D. students (Samantha Martin, John (Spud) McCullough, Angelina Rubina, Lesley Smith) were each awarded a SPARC grant sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research.

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