People Type: Graduate Students

Mikulin, Dragan

Biography Research Interests: Teaching Experience: Lecturer for Linguistics 211, TA for Linguistics 101, English 100, and in Gender & Women’s Studies Awards: Recipient of the UW–Madison Graduate School Fellowship 2020-2021, Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship Advisor: Joe Salmons

Morey, Kayla

Research interests: Indigenous language revitalization; the Algonquian language family; morphosyntax; polysynthesis Teaching Experience: TA for Linguistics 101 Awards: Recipient of the UW–Madison Graduate School Fellowship 2025-2026, and the 2026 Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies (NCAIS) Graduate Student Research Award. Other information: Kayla is originally from Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula and spent the past ten years …

Nash, Vivian

Biography Research Interests: Awards: Recipient of the UW–Madison Graduate School Fellowship 2021-2022. Teaching Experience: Lecturer for Linguistics 371: Survey of North American Indian Languages, TA for Linguistics 101, Tutor for Linguistics 330: Syntax. Advisor: Monica Macaulay

Olazar, Isabel

Research interests: Language Reclamation/Revitalization; Northern Athabaskan Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Second Language Acquisition Awards: Recipient of the UW–Madison Graduate School Fellowship 2026-2027. Teaching Experience: ESL instructor, SLA TA, and Linguistics TA at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (2023-2026).  Other Info About Isabel: Isabel completed her master’s degree in linguistics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and her …

Redding, Gavin

Research Interests: Awards: Recipient of the UW–Madison Graduate School Fellowship 2023-2024. Teaching Experience: Lecturer and TA for Linguistics 101, TA for English 100. Advisor:  Joe Salmons

Vanhecke, Charlotte

Research Interests: Phonology Teaching Experience: Lecturer for Linguistics 213: Topics in Sociolinguistics – Language, Power, & Policy, Lecturer and Teaching Assistant for Linguistics 101: Human Language, Dutch language instructor for the Department of German, Nordic, & Slavic Conference Presentations: Charlotte has presented research at many conferences, including the Linguistic Society of America, the Germanic Linguistics …