Tags: Graduate Students


Lindo Sikhonde

Lindo received her undergraduate, Honors,  Master's degrees in African languages and Linguistics from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is mainly interested in the field of sociolinguistics. She is the instructor of record for ZULU 1001, so she hopes to incorporate her native language (isiZulu) into her sociolinguistics research.


Melia Gomes


Amanda Tipton


Seaira Lett

Seaira Lett has a B.A. in Spanish and linguistics from Emory University and a Master of Education from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Seaira’s research interests include language documentation and indigenous languages of Latin America. Her focus is on the morphosyntax of Chuj, a Mayan language spoken primarily in Guatemala. She currently collects data with a community of speakers in the US. Seaira also previously served as a kindergarten…


Jay Carreira

Jay is a first-year PhD student who graduated summa cum laude from the University at Buffalo with a B.A. in Linguistics in the honors language structure and theory track, as well as in Spanish. They wrote their undergraduate thesis on verb usage patterns in disclosures of mental illness based on data pulled from the Corpus of Contemporary American English. They have presented their thesis research at Penn State University and the Northeastern…


Graham Burgess

I am a second-year Ph.D. student in the linguistics department at the University of Georgia. My areas of research are syntax & semantics and historical linguistics—I am particularly interested in event semantics and the historical relationships between and evolution of tense, aspect, mood, and telicity. I received my B.A. in English with a concentration in linguistics with a double minor in psychology and writing, rhetoric, &…


Bailey E. Pieplow

Bailey received her B.A. in Spanish Language and Literature with a Chinese minor in May 2022 from the University of North Georgia. Through UNG, she earned her TESOL certificate as well as a certificate in Spanish Translation. She participated in a virtual study abroad program to Spain in summer of 2020 where she gained historical and linguistic knowledge of Peninsular Spanish. Last year, Bailey was a Critical Language Scholarship awardee and…


Maggie McNamara


Andrew Campman

I am a third-year MA student. I am working on finishing my Classics MA, with which I expect to graduate in December 2022. My thesis for that degree focuses on the epithets of Athena in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. This is my first semester in Linguistics, and my focus and passion is Historical Linguistics, especially phonological change within languages.


Ulbossyn Parmanova

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