Students
Linguistics students at NC State represent various departments and engage in cutting-edge research.
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
- Natasha Derezinski-Choo
- Kaela Fong
- Ian Holmes
- Kees Koopman
- Sean Lundergan
- Broderick McCurdy
- Kalavick McNamara
- Kaylie Neese
- Mia Shang
- Masoud Sheikhbahaie
- Drew St. Claire
M.A. Spanish
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.
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
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 Fullbright Teaching Grant (Taiwan)
Adam Barnhardt Fullbright Research Grant (Austria)
Matt Champagne Lecturer at Kansas State University
Marissa Morgan Research Assistant with the Language & Life Project at NC State
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