
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
- Marie Bissell
- Zack Dukic
- Shalina Omar
- Alison Eggerth
- Peter Andrews
- Adam Barnhardt
- Matt Champagne
- Marissa Morgan
- Jose Alvarez-Retamales
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
- Cat Flynn, Sociolinguistics
- Adam Goldfarb, Sociolinguistics
- Joshua Hummel, Sociolinguistics
- Razia Husain, Sociolinguistics
- Leah Nodar, 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)
Dissertation: TBA
Caroline Myrick, 2018 (NCSU, Sociolinguistics)
Dissertation: TBA
Mary Kohn, 2013 (UNC Chapel Hill, English)
Assistant Professor at Kansas State University
Dissertation: Adolescent Ethnolinguistic Stability and Change: A Longitudinal Study [Download here]
Erin Callahan, 2013 (Duke, English)
Assistant Professor at Western Carolina University
Dissertation: Emerging Hispanic English in the Southeast US: Grammatical Variation in a Triethnic Community [Download here]
Phillip Carter, 2009 (Duke, English)
Assistant Professor at 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)
Assistant Professor at University of Oregon
Dissertation: Speech Rate, Pause, and Linguistic Variation: An Examination Through the Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project [Download here]
Christine Mallinson, 2006 (NCSU, Sociology)
Associate Professor in the Language, Literacy, and Culture program at 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)
Associate Professor, NC State University Linguistics Program
Dissertation: The effect of dialect awareness on adolescent knowledge and attitudes [Download here]
Ben Torbert, 2004 (Duke, English)
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, Saint Louis
Dissertation: Southern Vowels and the Social Construction of Salience
M.A. English Graduates
2018 GRADUATES
Katie Conner Ph.D student in Linguistics at Ohio State University
Jessica Hatcher Cognitive Linguist at Credit Suisse
Lars Naborn Project Manager at ICON plc
Frankie Pennington Data Collection Administrator at Sensory, Inc.
Hannah Smith Project Analyst at ICON plc
Cecilia Tomasetti Working in Madrid
KellyNoel Waldorf Advisor at UNC Chapel Hill
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