People Type: Grad Alum

Biography Micah received his MA in Linguistics from UW–Madison in 2008, and went on to complete a Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction. He now teaches Spanish as a foreign language at a high school in Texas.

Biography Sarah received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2019, with a research focus on Marathi loanword phonology. While still a graduate student, she worked as a Hindi instructor in the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures at UW–Madison. She also has experience serving as the Hindi-Urdu Pedagogy Specialist for the SAFLI, SASLI, and Project GO …

Biography Musaed received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from UW–Madison in 2006. He now teaches English and linguistics, and conducts research on phonetics and phonology, at King Saud University.

Biography Barbara received her M.A. in Applied English Linguistics at UW–Madison in 1981, and then went on to complete her Ph.D. in Linguistics here in 1989. She subsequently became a professor in the Linguistics Department at California State University, Fresno. Her work focuses on English, ESL reading, language attitudes, and peace education.

Biography George received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from UW–Madison in January 2019. His primary research interests were phonetics, phonology, and Chinese linguistics. His dissertation, Stress Production by Mandarin Speaking Learners of English, considered the second-language phonology implications of Mandarin speakers’ production of the phonetic correlates of stress in English. George currently works for Akorbi providing …

Biography After completing his M.A. in Linguistics from UW–Madison in 2006, Nate worked as a software engineer for TDS Communications, and then as an IT consultant providing services to EPIC. Since 2016 he has been a Data Scientist / Developer at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Madison.

Biography Yoonho completed his PhD in Linguistics at UW–Madison in 2019. His dissertation research focused on the Syntax of generic constructions in Korean. After graduation, he began his academic teaching career at Hanyang University in Seoul. In 2021 he joined Kyungnam University as an assistant professor.

Biography Meredith received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from UW–Madison in 2015. Her research focused on Hocak Syntax. After graduation she began to work in the field of software testing, working first at Epic in Verona, Wisconsin, and now at CodeWeavers in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Biography Richard K. Larson received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from UW–Madison in 1983. Throughout his career he has made countless significant contributions to the fields of theoretical syntax and semantics. He held academic positions at the University of Pennsylvania and MIT, and since 1989 has been on the faculty in the Linguistics Department at Stony …