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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

Jack Ryan is a Ph.D. student with interests in historical linguistics, dialectology, and morphology. Jack earned a B.A. in Linguistics with Honours from McGill University with a minor in Classics. His undergraduate thesis explored number and gender marking on Onondaga verbs through the lenses of formal linguistics, historical linguistics, and dialectology and proposed impoverishment rules to explain syncretism patterns.  He holds an M.A. in…


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. 


Theo Brown

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