Tags: Graduate Students

Negin Khavari is a Ph.D. student in Linguistics at the University of Georgia. Her academic interests include first language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics, with a particular interest in how language is acquired, processed, and represented in the mind and brain. She holds an M.A. in Linguistic Studies from Syracuse University, with a concentration in First Language Acquisition, and a B.A. in English Translation. Her academic…
Mike Schuster is both an Associate Professor of Business Law at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business and an M.A. student in Linguistics at the University of Georgia. His research includes work at the intersection of intellectual property and linguistics.
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…