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

Darien Dixon, 2024 (NC State, Sociology)
Generative AI Content Writer & Prompt Engineer, GlobalLogic 
Dissertation: No Longer Divided: Analyzing the Racial Integration of Schools in North Carolina [Download here]

Joshua Hummel, 2024 (NC State, Sociology)
Freelance Grants Consultant 
Dissertation: Migrants, Monuments, and Masks: Presentations of Opposition as Collective and Racial Identity Construction [Download here]

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

Caroline Myrick, 2018 (NC State, 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)
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)
Research Director, Wilson Center for Science and Justice at Duke Law
Dissertation: Speech Rate, Pause, and Linguistic Variation: An Examination Through the Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project [Download here]

Christine Mallinson, 2006 (NC State, 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

2024 GRADUATES

Ayomide Adeyeye

Bailey Brown Curriculum Developer with Pinnacle Academy

Haley Kinsler Graduate student, Ph.D. in Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media, NC State University

Griffin Lowry Ultrasound Research Technician at UNC School of Dentistry

2023 GRADUATES

Althea Davis

Kaela Fong Working for Meta

Sean Lundergan Graduate student, Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of New Mexico

Claudia Rodriguez Associate Analyst at Global Logic

2022 GRADUATES

Sydney Caudill Technical Writer, Hexagon Safety and Infrastructure

Natasha Derezinksi-Choo Health Consultant, Beghou Consulting

Broderick McCurdy Associate Researcher, Voices of Chatham County

Kaylie Neese Speech Analyst, Spectrum Enterprise

Mia Shang Linguist/Consultant, Gap International

Masoud Sheikhbahaie Assistant Professor

Drew St. Claire

2021 GRADUATES

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

Amelia Han Legal Assistant

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 Barbara

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
Jennifer Sheridan
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