Tags: Graduate Students


Savannah Jane Williams

Mon, 01/09/2023 - 11:54


Amanda Tipton

Wed, 11/02/2022 - 11:06


Seaira Lett

Mon, 08/15/2022 - 10:32
Seaira Lett has a B.A. in Spanish and linguistics from Emory University and a M.Ed. in elementary education from the University of Missouri.  Seaira’s research interests include language documentation and indigenous languages of Latin America. She earned summa cum laude at Emory for her thesis project on the morphosyntax of Chuj, a Mayan language from Guatemala, in which she collected data primarily via elicitation. She has presented her…


Hareem Khokhar

Mon, 08/15/2022 - 10:31


Jay Carreira

Mon, 08/15/2022 - 10:30
Jay is a first-year PhD student who graduated summa cum laude from the University at Buffalo with a B.A. in Linguistics in the honors language structure and theory track, as well as in Spanish. They wrote their undergraduate thesis on verb usage patterns in disclosures of mental illness based on data pulled from the Corpus of Contemporary American English. They have presented their thesis research at Penn State University and the Northeastern…


Graham Burgess

Mon, 08/15/2022 - 10:30
Graham received his B.A. in English with a concentration in Linguistics from North Carolina State University in spring 2022 and began his Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Georgia in the fall of the same year. His research interests lie primarily in syntax and semantics, and he is particularly interested in event semantics as well as tense, aspect (both lexical and grammatical), mood, telicity, and the relationships among them.


Caroline Schneider

Mon, 08/15/2022 - 10:29
Caroline is a first-year Master's student in the Department of Linguistics at UGA. She graduated from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2022 with a B.A. in Linguistics, a B.A. in Romance studies, and a minor in Spanish Translation and Interpreting. Her areas of interest are Hispanic Linguistics, Phonetics & Phonology, and Language Acquisition.


Bailey E. Pieplow

Mon, 08/15/2022 - 10:28
Bailey received her B.A. in Spanish Language and Literature with a Chinese minor in May 2022 from the University of North Georgia. Through UNG, she earned her TESOL certificate as well as a certificate in Spanish Translation. She participated in a virtual study abroad program to Spain in summer of 2020 where she gained historical and linguistic knowledge of Peninsular Spanish. Last year, Bailey was a Critical Language Scholarship awardee and…


Emmy McNeely

Mon, 08/15/2022 - 10:28
Emmy is a first-year MA student who graduated cum laude from Ball State University in Spring 2017 with a B.A. in Telecommunications. She also received minors in TESOL, creative writing, and French. She went on to teach English as a second language in both France (2017-2019) and South Korea (2020-2022). She is the co-founder of UGA's Korean Conversation Club (KCC) and works as the secretary and treasurer. Her primary research interests are Korean…


Maggie McNamara

Mon, 08/15/2022 - 10:27
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