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Faculty

Gary Baker
Academic Professional, Department of Romance Languages; Assistant Director, Language Resource Center
Ph.D., University of Florida
Office: 104 Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-0685
E-mail: gkbaker@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Phonetics, phonology

Dezso Benedek
Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State university
Office: 146 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706-542-8997
E-mail: cmsdezso@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Languages of the world, Asian literature, world mythology, literature and cultural anthropology, comparative folklore

Brent Berlin
Graham Perdue Professor of Anthropology; Director, Latin American and Carribean Institute
Ph.D., Stanford University
Office:
G34 Baldwin Hall
Phone: 706-542-1452
E-mail: obberlin@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Language evolution, cognitive anthropology, ethnobiology
Sarah Blackwell
Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Office:
237 Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-3151
E-mail: blackwel@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Spanish linguistics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, foreign language teaching and learning/acquisition
Renate Born
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages
Ph.D., Cornell University
Office:
208 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706-542-2287
E-mail: rborn@uga.edu
Areas of interest: German-American language islands, dialectology and language variation, historical Germanic linguistics, morphology
Misha Cahnmann Taylor
Assistant Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Office:
125 Aderhold Hall
Phone: 706-583-8127
E-mail: cahnmann@.uga.edu
Areas of interest: Relationship between language, culture, literacy, and power; multicultural education and multilingual classrooms; bilingual education policy and practice
Rebecca Callahan
Assistant Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education
Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Office:
125 Aderhold Hall
Phone: 706-542-1543
E-mail: rmcallah@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition, language policy, linguistic minority students in US schools, bilingual education, sociology of education, immigration theory
Laurent Cammarata
Assistant Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Office: 309L Aderhold Hall
Phone: 706-542-4209
E-mail: lc@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Content-based instruction and other innovative approaches to foreign language curriculum design, teacher education and professional development, technology-enhanced language learning, critical pedagogy, phenomenology, and issues related to validation of knowledge claims in human science.
Liang Chen
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Office:
Phone: 706-542-4566
E-mail: chen@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Language development and disorders, bilingualism, clinical and applied linguistics
Michael A. Covington
Senior Research Scientist and Associate Director, Artificial Intelligence Center; Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D., Yale University
Office:
111 Boyd Graduate Studies
Phone: 706-542-0358
E-mail: mc@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Computer analysis of speech for psychological research, natural language processing, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and logic programming
Frederic T. Dolezal
Associate Professor, Department of English
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Office: 104 Park Hall
Phone: 706-542-2256
E-mail: fdolezal@room343.english.uga.edu
Areas of interest: Literary lexicography and the history of linguistic semantics and philosophical grammars

Charles Clay Doyle
Associate Professor, Department of English
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Office: 214 Park Hall
Phone: 706-542-0543
E-mail: cdoyle@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Proverbs and idioms; slang; Southern American English; history of English

Jonathan Evans
Associate Professor, Department of English; Director, UGA Medieval Studies Program
Ph.D., Indiana University
Office:
306 Park Hall
Phone: 706-542-2229
E-mail: jdmevans@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Old English language and literature, Old Norse literature, paleography, philology as discipline and practice
Richard Eliott Friedman
Ann and Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies, Department of Religion
Th.D., Harvard University
Office:
Phone:
E-mail: rfriedman@uga.edu
Areas of interest:
Alan Godlas
Associate Professor, Department of Religion
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Office: 217 Peabody Hall
Phone: 706-542-1486
E-mail: godlas@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Arabic, Persian, and Turkish language, Islamic literature, paleography
Linda Harklau
Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Office:
125 Aderhold
Phone: 706-542-4521
E-mail: lharklau@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition in adolescents and adults, literacy and academic instruction for language minority students, role of culture and identity in second language learning, qualitative approaches to research in second language acquisition
Kenneth Honerkamp
Associate Professor, Department of Religion
Ph.D., University of Aix-en-Provence
Office:
200 Peabody Hall
Phone: 706-542-5356
E-mail: hnrkmp@uga.edu
Areas of interest: History of Arabic grammar and lexicography, the language of the Quran, traditional Islamic educational models, critical editions of Sufi texts
Lewis C. (Chad) Howe
Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Office:
370J Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-583-0792
E-mail: chowe@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Spanish and Portuguese linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics
Peter Jorgensen
Emeritus Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages
Ph.D., Harvard University
Office:

Phone:
E-mail: jorgy@uga.edu
Areas of interest: German dialects, medieval German pilgrimage literature, Old Icelandic manuscript editing, the linguistic classification of loanwords, and the Bear's Son Folktale in Old English and Old Norse literature
Shigeto Kawahara
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Office:
343 Park Hall
Phone: 706-542-3662
E-mail: kawahara@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Phonetics, phonology, and their interface; verbal art
Mi-Ran Cho Kim
Adjunct Faculty
Office:
321 Park Hall
Phone: 706-542-2243
E-mail: mrkim@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Acoustic phonetics, phonology, second language acquisition
Jared S. Klein
Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Classics; Director, Linguistics Program
Ph.D., Yale University
Office:
226 Park Hall
Phone: 706-542-9261
E-mail: jklein@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Comparative and historical Indo-European linguistics, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Gothic, Classical Armenian
William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.
Harry and Jane Willson Professor in Humanities, Department of English
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Office:
317 Park Hall
Phone: 706-542-2246
E-mail: kretzsch@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Language variation, corpus linguistics
Keith Langston
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages
Ph.D., Yale University
Office:
108 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706-542-2448
E-mail: langston@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Slavic phonology and morphology; sociolinguistics, with a focus on language and identity in the former Yugoslavia; historical Slavic linguistics and accentology
Ann Marrano
Part-time faculty
Ph.D., Georgetown University
Office: 321 Park Hall
Phone: 706-542-2243
E-mail: amarrano@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Generative syntax
Hilda Mata
Lecturer, Department of Romance Languages
Ph.D.
Office: 370H Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-3170
E-mail: hmmata@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition; Spanish applied linguistics
Don R. McCreary
Professor, Department of English; Graduate Coordinator, Linguistics Program
Ph.D., University of Delaware
Office:
340 Park Hall
Phone: 706-542-2238
E-mail: mccreary@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition research and pedagogy, bilingual lexicography, and applied linguistics, with specific interests in Japanese as a second language and in English as a second language
Lioba Moshi
University Professor, Department of Comparative Literature; Director, African Studies Institute
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Office:
141 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706-542-2133
E-mail: moshi@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition and pedagogy; African languages; discourse analysis; language, gender, and culture
Akinloye Ojo
Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
Ph.D., University of Georgia
Office: 147 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706-542-7730
E-mail: akinloye@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Yoruba language and linguistics, applied linguistics and language teaching, and language, culture and society.
Lee Pederson
Adjunct Professor of Linguistics, Emory University, Department of English
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Phone: 404-727-7984
E-mail: lpeders@emory.edu
Teresa Perez-Gamboa
Academic Professional, Department of Romance Languages
Ph.D.
Office: 370G Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-3972
E-mail: perezt@uga.edu
Areas of interest:
Margaret Lubbers Quesada
Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages; Director, Language Resource Center
Ph.D., Michigan State University
Office:
105 Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-2460
E-mail: quesadam@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Spanish as a second/foreign language, corpus-based data analysis, language learning and technology
Diana L. Ranson
Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Office:
370L Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-7323
E-mail: dranson@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Language change and variation in the Romance languages
Donald L. Rubin
Emeritus Professor, Department of Speech Communication and Department of Language and Literacy Education
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Office:
113 Terrell Hall
Phone: 706-542-4893
E-mail: drubin@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Marking gender, ethnicity, national, and role relations in written language; oral-based vs. literate-based stylistics; evaluative responses to language variation
Hildebrando Ruiz
Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages
Ph.D., Indiana University
Office:
206 Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-3147
E-mail: hruiz@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Spanish linguistics, applied linguistics, foreign language teacher development
Alexander Sager
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages
Ph.D., Cornell University
Office: 102 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706-542-6211
E-mail: asager@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Middle High German, medieval German literature of courtly love (minne), and the literary, cultural and historical/historiographic relationship between German-speaking lands and eastern Europe, primarily Hungary
Paula Schwanenflugel
Professor, Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology; Program Coordinator, Applied Cognition and Development
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Office:
329 Aderhold Hall
Phone: 706-542-4273
E-mail: pschwan@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Semantics and semantic development, lexical processing
Mariana Souto-Manning
Assistant Professor, College of Family and Consumer Sciences
Ph.D., University of Georgia
Office:
106 405 Sanford Dr.
Phone: 706-542-1297
E-mail: mvsm@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Sociocultural and historical foundations of schooling, language development, literacy practices, cultures, and discourses.

Graduate Students

Geoffrey Adams gra2@uga.edu
is a PhD student.
Claire Andres girlshack@aol.com
is a PhD student.
Betsy Barry bbarry@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Language Variation and Sociolinguistics track.
Sonia Bell sdbell@uga.edu
is a PhD student.
Garrison Bickerstaff gbick@uga.edu
is a PhD student.
Cati Brown catib@uga.edu
is a PhD Candidate on the Cognitive and Computational Linguistics track.
Paulina Stelmach Bounds pbounds@uga.edu
is a PhD Student.
John Bucsko bucsko@uga.edu
is a PhD student.
Elizabeth Canon lizbellc@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Historical Linguistics Track.
Alberto Centeno-Pulido ask@uga.edu
is a PhD student.
Soo Jung Chang sjung74@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Second Language Acquisition track.
Christie Cooper seaensea@gmail.com
is an MA student.
Janay Crabtree cjanay@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Second Language Acquisition track.
Betsy Craig eccraig@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Second Language Acquisition track.
Jackson Crawford corvus@uga.edu
is an MA student.
Kevin Crowe liszt@uga.edu
is an MA student.
Jiyoung Daniel jilee@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Second Language Acquisition track.
Clayton Darwin cdarwin@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Language Variation and Sociolinguistics track.
Jessica DeLisi jdelisi@uga.edu
is a MA student.
Brooke Ehrhardt behrhard@uga.edu
is a PhD student.
Sam Fisher sfisher@uga.edu
is an MA student on the Computing-Intensive Cognitive track.
Charles Graham requiemx@uga.edu
is a PhD student.
Gert Guthenberg gertguth@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Historical Linguistics track.
Jiayun Han jyhan@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Second Language Acquisition track.
Amy Heaton aheaton@uga.edu
is a PhD student.
Brooke Heller brooke.heller@gmail.com
is an MA student on the Cognitive Linguistics track.
Amy Hernandez amy27@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Sociolinguistics/Language Variation track.
Huimin Ji jihuimin@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Second Language Acquisition track.
Sasha Johnson cawa5@uga.edu
is a PhD student.
Keith Kennetz kkennetz@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Language Variation and Sociolinguistics track.
Jeffrey Kilpatrick jeffk@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Historical Linguistics track.
So Young Kwon ksy@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Cognitive Linguistics track.
Lloyd Martin lalloyd@uga.edu
is a PhD student.
Heather Mello hlmello@uga.edu
is an MA student.
Antje Meyke ameyke@uga.edu
is a PhD student.
Erin Mitchelson erimit@uga.edu
is an MA student.
Joseph Pennington cymraeg@uga.edu
is a PhD student.
Satomi Suzuki ss422@uga.edu
is a PhD student.
Stephen Tyndall geist9@uga.edu
is an MA student.
Rose Upor upor@uga.edu
is a PhD student.
Rebecca Vanderslice rvanders@uga.edu
is an MA student.
Rachel Votta raebee@uga.edu
is an MA student.
Betsy Wang egwang@uga.edu
is an MA student.
Csilla Weninger weninger@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Language Variation and Sociolinguistics track.
Mark Wenthe wenthem@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Historical Linguistics track.
Chad White whiteck@uga.edu
is an MA student.
Heather Willis hwillis7@uga.edu
is an MA student.
W. Keith Winkler kwinkler@uga.edu
is an MA student on the Historical Linguistics track.
Shih-Ju (Jackie) Young shih@uga.edu
is an MA student.

 


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