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Imani Allen


Dante Smith

Dante (he, him) has a B.A. in Linguistics with a minor in Japanese from the University of Georgia. He is a third-year doctorate student in the department, and his interests generally include computational linguistics and morphosyntax. More specifically, Dante uses computational methodology to analyze syntactic alternations/phenomenon in East Asian languages and African American Language.  


Morgan Riley


Javier Agredo


Chris Washburn


Lindo Sikhonde

Lindo received her undergraduate, Honors,  Master's degrees in African languages and Linguistics from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is mainly interested in the field of sociolinguistics. She is the instructor of record for ZULU 1001, so she hopes to incorporate her native language (isiZulu) into her sociolinguistics research.


Melia Gomes


Amanda Tipton


Seaira Lett

Seaira’s research interests include language documentation and indigenous languages of Latin America. Her focus is on the morphosyntax and semantics of Chuj, a Mayan language spoken primarily in Guatemala. She has done fieldwork both in Guatemala and with diaspora speakers in the US. Seaira Lett has a B.A. in Spanish and linguistics from Emory University and a Master of Education from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Seaira also previously…


Graham Burgess

I am a second-year Ph.D. student in the linguistics department at the University of Georgia. My areas of research are syntax & semantics and historical linguistics—I am particularly interested in event semantics and the historical relationships between and evolution of tense, aspect, mood, and telicity. I received my B.A. in English with a concentration in linguistics with a double minor in psychology and writing, rhetoric, &…
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