Graduate Student

Shweta Akolkar

PhD Candidate
Syntax Language Documentation Semantics Bishnupriya Manipuri

Rhosean Asmah

PhD Student
Rhosean Asmah is a second-year PhD Student in the Linguistics department. Before grad school, she completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania and later worked at the University of Maryland. In general, her research focuses on phonetics and its intersections with sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. Right now, she has a research project focusing on the phonetic characteristics of rap music, where she studies rappers like Megan Thee Stallion and Doechii. Outside of school, she does art (screenprinting, bookmaking, zines!) and (tries to) read.

Alexander Elias

PhD Candidate

Historical linguistics, descriptive linguistics, Austronesian languages, fieldwork.

Amber Galvano

PhD Candidate
Sociophonetics, phonetics-phonology interface, speech & sexuality, speech perception and production, variation & change, language & positionality, Spanish Linguistics

Aurora Martinez Kane

PhD Candidate

Sociolinguistics, Hispanic linguistics, language contact, language and embodiment, language and identity, language variation and change