Current Masters Students

Our Masters programs in the English and Spanish programs emphasize cutting-edge sociolinguistic research as well as public outreach. Through collaboration and mentorship with faculty, Masters students frequently present research developed in class to national and international conferences (Learn more about Student Conference Travel). See below for our current Masters students.

M.A. English

Lynsey Akin
Sydney Caudill
Althea Davis
Kaela Fong
Ian Holmes
Kees Koopman
Sean Lundergan
Kalavick McNamara
Drew St. Claire

M.A. Spanish

Hispanic Linguistics at NC State‌

Current Doctoral Students

Our doctoral students have represented our partnerships with Ph.D. programs at NC State as well as around the triangle at UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University. Our current doctoral students currently comprise students from our Sociolinguistics Concentration in the Sociology Ph.D. program.

Darien Dixon, Sociolinguistics
Joshua Hummel, Sociolinguistics
Razia Husain, Sociolinguistics
Aston Patrick, Sociolinguistics
Daulton Selke, Sociolinguistics

Alumni

Alumni from the MA English program, as well as partner programs at UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University, have gone on to tenure-track faculty positions as well as positions in industry. See below for a list of some of our most recent Ph.D. Graduates and M.A. Graduates.

NCSU Linguistics Alumni, pictured in 2015

Ph.D. Graduates

Jon Forrest, 2018 (NCSU, Sociolinguistics)
Assistant Professor, University of Georgia
Dissertation: A Firm-Specific Analysis of Southern US English and Workplace Processes [Download here]

Caroline Myrick, 2018 (NCSU, Sociolinguistics)
Elections Data Analyst, North Carolina State Board of Elections
Dissertation: Language and Gender Ideologies in Higher Education: AnExamination of Faculty Discourses [Download here]

Mary Kohn, 2013 (UNC Chapel Hill, English)
Associate Professor, Kansas State University
Dissertation: Adolescent Ethnolinguistic Stability and Change: A Longitudinal Study [Download here]

Erin Callahan, 2013 (Duke, English)
Associate Professor, Western Carolina University
Dissertation: Emerging Hispanic English in the Southeast US: Grammatical Variation in a Triethnic Community [Download here]

Phillip Carter, 2009 (Duke, English)
Associate Professor, Florida International University
Dissertation: Speaking Subjects: Language, Subject Formation, and the Crisis of Identity [Download here]

Jeannine Carpenter, 2009 (Duke, English)
Dissertation: Voices of Jim Crow: Early Urban African American English in the Segregated South [Download here]

Tyler Kendall, 2009 (Duke, English)
Program Officer, National Science Foundation
Dissertation: Speech Rate, Pause, and Linguistic Variation: An Examination Through the Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project [Download here]

Christine Mallinson, 2006 (NCSU, Sociology)
Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Dissertation: The Dynamic Construction of Race, Class, and Gender through Linguistic Practice among Women in a Black Appalachian Community [Download here]

Jeffrey Reaser, 2006 (Duke, English)
Professor, NC State University Linguistics Program
Dissertation: The effect of dialect awareness on adolescent knowledge and attitudes [Find it here]

Ben Torbert, 2004 (Duke, English)
Associate Professor, University of Missouri, Saint Louis
Dissertation: Southern Vowels and the Social Construction of Salience

M.A. English Graduates

2022 GRADUATES

Natasha Derezinksi-Choo

Broderick McCurdy

Kaylie Neese

Mia Shang

Masoud Sheikhbahaie

2021 GRADUATES

Gina Beer Graduate Student, Masters in Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill

Amelia Han

Emily Peebles English Instructor, France

AJ Torres Spanish/English Interpreter, Florida

2020 GRADUATES

Peter Andrews Pre-Medicine at Ohio University

Adam Barnhardt Ph.D student in Linguistics at Michigan State University

Matt Champagne Lecturer at Kansas State University

Marissa Morgan Ph.D student in Linguistics at the University of California- Santa Cruz

Leah Nodar Ph.D student in Linguistics at Purdue University

José Alvarez-Retamales Ph.D student in Linguistics at New York University

2019 GRADUATES

Marie Bissell
Zack Dukic
Shalina Omar
Alison Smith

2018 GRADUATES

Katie Conner
Jessica Hatcher
Lars Naborn
Frankie Pennington
Hannah Smith
Cecilia Tomasetti
KellyNoel Waldorf

2017 GRADUATES

Ari Janoff
Karen Eisenhauer
Kelsey Campolong
Rachel Russell
Yuqiu Liu
Sonya Trawick

2016 GRADUATES

Amy Hemmeter
Amanda Eads
Cadwell Turnbull
Brooke Wallig
Eric Wilbanks
Karissa Wojcik
MK Hedrick
Sean Minty

2015 GRADUATES

Lacey Arnold
Angela Tramontelli
Kellam Barta
Julie Schurr

2014 GRADUATES

Erin Adamson
Jaclyn Daugherty
Martha Summerlin
Jahurul Islam
Shivonne Gates
Megan Risdal
Meghan Deanna Cooper
Samina Samina
May Chung
Jon Inscoe

2013 GRADUATES

Joel Schneier
Caroline Myrick
Michael J. Fox
Liang Zhang
Jon Forrest

2012 GRADUATES

Hayley Heaton
Melanie Camurati
Channing Johnson
Katherine McDonald
Heather Wright

2011 GRADUATES

Kelly Abrams
Elizabeth Daw
David Ethier
Charlie Farrington
Nicolette Filson
Darya Kostina
Jason McLarty
Betsy Newman
Mario Piergallini

2010 GRADUATES

Tim Castor
Paula Dickerson
Michelle Hewitt
Anna Morgan
Jeremy Needle
Hannah Pick
Tom Wilkinson

2009 GRADUATES

Hannah Askin
Alexis Smith
Janneke Van Hofwegen
Ashley Wise

2008 GRADUATES

Erin Callahan
Danica Cullinan
Stephany Dunstan
Mary Kohn
Leah White