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Tucker Hardison

Tucker received his undergraduate degrees in Linguistics and German from the University of Georgia, graduating Magna Cum Laude in the spring of 2021. He is primarily interested in sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis. More specifically, Tucker focuses on how regional varieties are employed in the expression of identity among different communities. His work has dealt with students and LGBTQ+ folks from the rural South, and his…


Ahmet Emre Keser

Emre is a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Georgia (UGA). Emre's primary area of research is psycho-neurolinguistics, and he is currently working on real-time sentence processing using eye-tracking methods. He is also interested in Turkish syntax and cognitive aspects of second language acquisition. He is currently collaborating with the fellow researchers in the Brain, Aphasia and Related Conditions (BARC) Lab…


Mayee Yeh

Mayee (they/them/他) obtained a B.S. in Applied Psychology with Honors in Linguistics from New York University, where they studied variations of singular they interpretations. As an M.A. student, Mayee hopes to further develop their research, integrating pragmatics, syntax, and anthropological methods to enrich their work; as an homage to their heritage, they look forward to exploring how language proficiency and immigrant generation influences…


Zhen Wang


Jack Ryan


Tanner W. Rogers

Originally from Martinsburg, West Virginia, Tanner received his Bachelor's of Arts in International Studies alongside Minors in German Studies and Japanese Studies from West Virginia University in 2023, as well as a Master's of Arts in Linguistics from West Virginia University in 2025.  He is mainly interested in historical Germanic linguistics, language change, language preservation, as well as an interest in syntax. He is the instructor…


Ben Padgett


Kaitlyn Hatfield


Mir Sabbir Hasan

Mir Sabbir Hasan is a Ph.D. student specializing in World Englishes and Corpus Linguistics. His research examines how English is used, adapted, and reimagined across diverse global contexts, with particular attention to linguistic variation, identity construction, and communication practices in spoken, written, and digital environments. He completed his bachelor’s degree in Linguistics at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and his master’s…


Joshua Craig

Joshua is a first year PhD student. His interests are syntax and language acquisition.  He has been teaching English as a second language for eight years which has shown him the struggles learners face in the classroom. He would like to research how students' syntax changes when they study abroad. 
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