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Alumni

2009

Alumnus Name/Email Dissertation Current Position
Gregory Davidson
gsdavids@uchicago.edu
Modeling Laryngeal Asymmetries  
Erin Debenport
erin@uchicago.edu
Listen so you can live life the way it's supposed to be lived: Paradoxes of text, secrecy and language at a New Mexico Pueblo  
Fang Liu
liufang@uchicago.edu
Intonation Systems of Mandarin and English: a Functional Approach Research Assistant in the Music, Mind and Brain group within the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths College, University of London
Alejandro Paz Discursive Transformation: Ethnolinguistic Identity among Latin American Labor Migrants and their Children in Israel Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto Scarborough
Kjersti Stensrud
kgs@uchicago.edu
Aspects of Event Composition in Norwegian and English  

2008

Alumnus Name/Email Dissertation Current Position
Ichiro Yuhara
iyuhara@midway.uchicago.edu
A multimodular approach to case assignment in Japanese: a study of complex and stative predicates  

2007

Alumnus Name/Email Dissertation Current Position
Chris Ball Out of the Park: Trajectories of Wauja (Xingu Arawak) Language and Culture Robert A. and Catherine L. McKennan Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow of Anthropology
John Boyle    
Mary Katherine Gruber A linguistic and ethnographic analysis of apology narratives performed in the context of federal sentencing hearings  
Amy Franklin    
Mika Ishino    
Keiko Yoshimura    

2006

Alumnus Name/Email Dissertation Current Position
Sabrina Billings
sjbillin@uchicago.edu
Speaking Beauties: Language Use and Linguistic Ideologies in Tanzanian Beauty Pageants  
Aaron Griffith
a-griffith@uchicago.edu
Studies in Insular Celtic Historical Phonology and Morphology Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Vienna
Irene Kimbara
ikimbara@uchicago.edu
A Study on Interpersonal Gesture Coordination in Interaction Lecturer at Kushiro University in Hokkaido, Japan
Jung-Hyuck Lee
jlee@uchicago.edu
Individual-level ability and Stage-level ability in Korean and English Lecturer in Korean Language and Acting Director of the Korean Language Program, East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.
Fey Parrill
fey.parrill@case.edu
Subjects in the hands of speakers: An experimental study of the relationship between syntactic subject and speech-gesture patterning in narrative discourse. Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University
Heidi Waterfall A little change is a good thing: Feature Theory, Language Acquisition, and Variations Sets  
Yotam David Amit; AM    
Jennifer Robin Fick; AM    
Robert Matthew Peachey; AM    
Colin Larry Sprague; AM    
Zuzana Tomkova; AM    
Mary Lewis Tomlinson; AM    

2005

Alumnus Name/Email Dissertation Current Position
Karl Erik McCullough Using Gestures in Speaking: Self-generating indexical fields.  
Saeko Reynolds
sreynold@midway.uchicago.edu
A Multimodular Analysis of Japanese Quantifiers.  
Daniel Suslak
dsuslak@indiana.edu
The Future of Totontepecano Mixe: Youth and Language in the Mixe Highlands (Oaxaca, Mexico). Assistant professor in Anthropology at Indiana University.
Kjersti Gjaerum Stensrud; AM    
Holman B. Tse; AM    

2004

Alumnus Name/Email Dissertation Current Position
Adi Hastings
adi-hastings@uiowa.edu
Past Perfect, Future Perfect: Sanskrit Revival and the Hindu Nation in Contemporary India. Assistant professor in Anthropology at the University of Iowa.
David Kaiser
dwkaiser@midway.uchicago.edu
Modeling Entailment-Based Semantics in Polish Using Phases and Second Order Logic.  
Stanislaus Sandarupa; PhD    
Pabitrabhush Sarkar; PhD    
Tamra Wysocki
tmwysock@midway.uchicago.edu
Acoustic Analysis of Georgian Stop Consonants and Stop Clusters Lecturer at the University of Chicago (teaching Georgian) and at DePaul University (in the Communications Department).
Arika Okrent
aokrent@midway.uchicago.edu
From Meaning to words: an investigation of past tense verb inflection in English comparing a form to form mapping task with a meaning to form mapping task  
Mary Antonia Andronis; AM    
Wei Lai; AM    
Robert Joseph Lehner; AM    

2003

Alumnus Name/Email Dissertation Current Position
Christopher Rodolfo Celis; PhD    
Daisuke Hara
d-hara@uchicago.edu
A complexity-based approach to the syllable formation in sign language. Assistant professor at Aichi Medical University College of Nursing in Japan.
Wataru Koyama; PHD    
Joanna Lowenstein
jhlowens@midway.uchicago.edu
Artificial hearing, natural speech: Cochlear implants, speech production, and the expectations of a high-tech society. Postdoctoral fellow at the Speech Development Laboratory at Utah State University.
Sylvain Neuvel
sneuvel@midway.uchicago.edu
Metamorphology: A word based account of polysynthesis and other multivalent morphological relations.  
Svetlana Soglasnova
svsoglas@midway.uchicago.edu
Russian hypocoristic formation: A quantitative approach  
Elizabeth Anna Laura Hamlin; AM    
Jesse Aron Harris; AM    

2002

Alumnus Name/Email Dissertation Current Position
Aucoin, Michelle M.; PHD    
Beach, Woodford Ascher; PHD    
Randy Eggert
reggert@linguistics.utah.edu
  Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Utah.
Derrick Higgins
dchiggin@midway.uchicago.edu
  Associate research scientist in the Research & Development Division at Educational Testing Service.
Elizabeth Dupree McNair; PHD    
Yoko Mizuta
ymizuta@midway.uchicago.edu
   
Sheri Pargman
slpargma@alumni.uchicago.edu
Internal and External Factors in Language Change  
Sheri Pargman
slpargma@alumni.uchicago.edu
Internal and External Factors in Language Change  
Hisami Suzuki
suz6@midway.uchicago.edu
  Researcher at Microsoft Research (Natural Language Processing)
Peter Viechnicki
pviechni@vredenburg.com
Composition and granularity of vowel production targets.  
Russell Andrew Clark; AM    
Andrea Maria Cooke; AM    

2001

Alumnus Name/Email Dissertation Current Position
Audra Dainora
dainora@mit.edu
  Visiting scholar at MIT
Ana Vilacy Galucio The Morphosyntax of Mekens (TUPI)  
Harvey Paul Manning Typology, History and 'Teratology': The rise and fall of the 'abnormal main clause with relative structure in P-Celtic  
Jeanine Ntihirageza Quantity Sensitivity in Bantu Languages Assistant Professor in Linguistics at Northeastern Illinois University.
Kenneth Olson The Phonology and Morphology of Mono Associate International Linguistics Coordinator for SIL International, an adjunct associate professor at the University of North Dakota, and an adjunct assistant professor at the Graduate Institute of Applied Lingustics
Mischa Alan Park-Doob; AM    
Millie Ahrham Shin; AM    

2000

Alumnus Name/Email Dissertation Current Position
Gregory Anderson Language Contact in South Central Siberia Director of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages
Fu-Wen Lin The Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Dou and Ye in Mandarin Chinese  
Ming Yu Zheng; PhD    

1999

Alumnus Name/Email Dissertation Current Position
Anne EA David; PhD    
Jeannette Marshall Denton; PhD    
Lise Miriam Dobrin; PhD    
Alexander L. Francis; PhD    
Elaine Jones Francis; PhD    
Rachel Marie Hemphill Barnard; PhD    
Yukari Hirata; PhD    
Syugo Hotta; PhD    
Kora Licht; PhD    
Svetlana Vladimirovna Soglasnova; PhD    
Sundus AI-Ajeel; AM    
Robert Pendleton Hamrick; AM    
Karen Peterson; MBA    
Mitchell Steven Szczepanczyk; SM    

1998

Alumnus Name/Email Dissertation Current Position
Lisa Ann Cairns; PhD    
Douglas James Glick; PhD    
Eddy Herminio Gaytan; PhD    
Lynette Renee Melnar; PhD    
Etsuyo Yuasa; PhD    
Sara Jane Baker; AM    
Kathryn Barbara Campbell-Kibler; AM    
Jeffrey Craig Good; AB; AM    
Jennifer Joan Moless; AM    
Deina Abdelgawad Rabie; AM    
Mitchell Steven Szczepanczyk; AM    

1997

Alumnus Name/Email Dissertation Current Position
Ann Louise Buckun; AM    
Joseph Aaron Goldberg; AB; AM    
Sanjay Ravindra Nath; AM    
Eric Thomas Szmyt; AM    
Erica Lynn Zeinfeld; AM    
Ming Yu Zheng; AM    

1996

Alumnus Name/Email Dissertation Current Position
Olga Rostislavovn Beloded; PhD    
Marcello Cherchi; PhD    
Ana Vi lacy Galucio; AM    
Rosana Wong Hiu; AM    
Thomas Y. Howard; AM    
Michael Jinhwa Kim; PhD    
Richard McDorman; AM    
Stephanie Semple Platz; PhD    
Nell Whitman; AM    

1995

Alumnus Name/Email Dissertation Current Position
Irene Appelbaum; PhD    
Katharine P. Beals; PhD    
Constantine P. Canakis; PhD    
Rella Israly Cohn; PhD    
Jeannette Marshall Denton; AM    
Elaine Jones Francis; AM    
Cecilia Mary Hilgeman; AM    
Manuela Noske; PhD    
David Douglas Testen; PhD    
Ming Yu Zheng; AM    

1994

Alumnus Name/Email Dissertation Current Position
Gina Cooke; AM    
Angus Benjamin Grieve-Smith; AM    
David Joseph Kathman, Jr.; PhD    
Kyunghwan Kim; PhD    
Yoshio Ueno; PhD    

1993

Alumnus Name/Email Dissertation Current Position
Donna M. Adler; AM    
Irene Appelbaun; AM    
Tista Bagchi; PhD    
Alexander L. Francis; AM    
Richard Leonard Goerwitz III; PhD    
Gary Neal Larson; PhD    
Paul Edward Losensky; PhD    
Erin McKean; AM    
Amy Jean Metzger; AM    
Rosa Maria Rodriguez; AM    
Donald Anthony Tschetter-Breed; AB; AM    
Martha Ellen Tyrone; AM    
Elizabeth Ruth Whitthorne; AM