Khalid (PhD 2023) is an Assistant Professor at Al-Jouf University and a sociolinguist researching how speakers of Arabic attribute social meaning to phonological variation. His dissertation (supported by the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission) investigated the sociolinguistic perceptions of (k) variation by people living in the Northern Border region of Saudi Arabia.
Yoojin (PhD 2022) is a sociolinguist working on second dialect acquisition and language attitudes. Her NSF-funded dissertation focused on dialect change among native speakers of Seoul Standard Korean who have moved to Gyeongsang Province and natives of Gyeongsang who have moved to Seoul. Yoojin is also an Associate Researcher in the Korean Ministry of Culture.
Shannon (PhD 2020) is a Senior Data Scientist at Coursera and a linguist interested in the social and cognitive dynamics underlying knowledge acquisition and learner behavior. Her dissertation (supported by an NSF Dissertation grant) examined how kindergartners in a diverse community acquire sociolinguistic variation.
Sean (PhD 2019) is a Senior Linguist at Google with expertise in natural language processing, sociophonetics and language documentation. His dissertation focused on the automatic detection of sociodemographic information based on small conversational speech snippets.
Jessi (PhD 2015) is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan and a sociolinguist who specializes in discourse analysis, geosemiotics, and sociophonetics. Her research focuses on the use of African American English (AAE) in expressions of the intersectional identities of race, place, and social class.