People Type: Graduate Students

Research interests: Cherokee language, language revitalization and reclamation, second language acquisition, innovative pedagogy, heritage language Awards: Recipient of the UW–Madison Graduate School Fellowship 2026-2027. Other info about Jack: Jack completed his B.A. at the University of Alabama in Anthropology and Spanish in 2024. He has been working as a contractor for the Cherokee Language Department of Western …

Research Interests: Evolution of language; language acquisition; semantics; synonymy Awards: L&S Community of Graduate Research Scholars Fellowship, Kemper K. Knapp University Fellowship, Henry Hoenigswald Prize in Linguistics for Undergraduates Bio: Before coming to Madison, Aja completed a B.A. in Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania and a MSc in the Evolution of Language …

Research Interests: Phonetics, Phonology, Language Acquisition Conference Presentations: Luke has presented at conferences including the International Child Phonology Conference, Mid Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference (MidPhon), and the Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL) Teaching Experience: TA for Linguistics 101 and English 100. Bio: Before beginning the PhD, Luke worked with children ages 3 through 10 …

Research Interests: Historical Linguistics; Perceptual Dialectology; Government and Language Policy; Suppression and Revitalization Awards: L&S Community of Graduate Research Scholars Fellowship, UW–Madison; John Asher Dunn Linguistics Award, University of Oklahoma Teaching Experience: TA for Ling 101, Ling 213, and Eng 100 at UW–Madison; English ALT, Kōbe Board of Education (2023-2024); Linguistics TA, University of Kentucky …

Biography Research Interests: Awards: Recipient of the UW–Madison Graduate School Fellowship 2024-2025. Teaching: Lecturer for Ling 101, TA for Ling 101 and Eng 100 Advisor: Eric Raimy

Research Interests: Syntax, sentence processing, language acquisition Awards: Recipient of the UW–Madison Graduate School Fellowship 2024-2025; Outstanding Senior Award, Department of Linguistics, Purdue University, May 2024; Margo Katherine Wilke Undergraduate Research Scholarship, Purdue University, May 2023-2024 Teaching: Lecturer for Ling 101, TA for Ling 101 and Eng 100 Other Info About Yongjia: Yongjia completed her B.A. …

Research interests: Indigenous language revitalization Teaching Experience: TA for Linguistics 101 Awards: L&S Community of Graduate Research Scholars Fellowship Advisor: Monica Macaulay

Research Interests: Phonetics/phonology, Heritage Languages, Heritage Dutch in the US, Language Shift, Language Maintenance, Bilingualism Awards: Recipient of the UW–Madison Graduate School Fellowship 2021-2022. Conference Presentations: Rachyl has presented her research at many conferences, including the Heritage Language Research Institute, the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, the Interdisciplinary Conference for Netherlandic Studies, the Association for the …

Research Interests: Phonetics/phonology, language variation and change, historical linguistics Teaching Experience: Lecturer for Linguistics 101 and 211, TA for Linguistics 101 and English 100. Other work experience: Editorial assistant for the Papers of the Algonquian Conference, “Student- and public-facing Wisconsin language resources” project assistant Awards: Recipient of the UW–Madison Graduate School Fellowship 2018-2019. Conference Presentations: …

Research Interests: Phonology, Computational Modeling, Historical Linguistics Teaching Experience: TA for Linguistics 101 Awards: Recipient of the UW–Madison Graduate School Fellowship 2025-2026 Conference Presentations: Calvin has presented at conferences including New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV), Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference (MidPhon), and the Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL). Advisor: Eric Raimy