Jae Sıdıka Weller

Jae completed their PhD in 2026 with a focus on Turkish phonology. After graduation, they took a leadership position with the New York Immigration Coalition, an umbrella organization that brings together immigration-related non-profits across New York state.

Awards: Recipient of the UW–Madison Graduate School Fellowship 2021-2022, Segal Americorps Education Award in 2021, and Foreign Languages and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship in summer of 2022.

Teaching Experience: While a graduate student, Jae served as a lecturer for Linguistics 373: Coding for Linguistics, and TA for Linguistics 101 and English 100.

Conference Presentations: Jae has presented work at a variety of conferences, including the Linguistics Society of America (LSA), the Annual Conference of African Linguistics (ACAL), and MidPhon.

Publications: 

• Jae Sıdıka Weller, Jeremy Steffman, Félix Cortés and Iara Mantenuto. “Interactions between tone and voice quality in San Sebastián del Monte Mixtec modal and rearticulated vowels“, Journal of the International Phonetic Association (2025), 1–31.