Lab Members
Farrell Ackerman, Professor. Moro, Tundra Nenets.
Gabriela Caballero, Professor. Choguita Rarámuri, Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec, Ja'a Kumiai, San Juan Piñas Mixtec.
Matthew Carter, PhD Student. Bashkir, Georgian, Ket.
Emily Clem, Assistant Professor. Amahuaca, Tswefap, Todos Santos Cuchumatán Mam.
Devon Denny, PhD Student. Navajo.
Claudia Duarte-Bórquez, PhD Student. San Juan Piñas Mixtec.
Marc Garellek, Professor. Hmong, Choguita Rarámuri, Tongan.
Olivia Griffin, PhD Student. Balinese.
John Haviland, Emeritus Professor (Anthropology). Zinacantec Family Homesign, Tzotzil, Guugu Yimithirr
Nina Hagen Kaldhol, PhD Student. Somali, Rere, Tira.
JJ Lim, PhD Student. Khalkha Mongolian, Kalmyk Oirat, Todos Santos Cuchumatán Mam.
Justin McIntosh, Lecturer. Teotepec Eastern Chatino, San Juan Piñas Mixtec.
Rachel Miles, PhD Student. Storian wetem han (Vanuatu Sign Language).
Sharon Rose, Professor. Moro, Chaha, Tigrinya, Rere, Tira.
Mark Simmons, PhD Student. Nadëb, Tira.
Anthony Struthers-Young, PhD Student. Northern Toussian.
Rihan Yeh, Associate Professor (Anthropology). Language use in Tijuana.
Matt Zaslansky, PhD Student. Lezgi, Juhuri, Azerbaijani, Avar, Azerbaijani Sign Language.
Recent Alumni
Ray Huaute, (PhD 2023). Topics in the Phonology and Morphology of Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla. Current position: University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside.
Andrés Aguilar, (PhD 2020). Phonology and phonetics of laryngeal sounds in Chicontepec Nahuatl. Current position: Assistant Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Diego State University.
Lucien Carroll (PhD 2015). Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec Word Prosody. Current position: NLP Engineer, Cisco.
Yuan Chai (PhD 2022). Current position: postdoctoral fellow, University of Washington.
Nese Demir Nalci (PhD 2023). Laz Turkish: A Case Study of Partially Productive Vowel Harmony and Sociolinguistic Attitudes. Current position: Data Labeling Analyst, AI Language Research Group, Meta.
Austin German (BA 2018). Choguita Rarámuri, Zinacantec Family Homesign. BA Honors thesis. Currently: Linguistics PhD student, UT Austin.
Kati Hout, (PhD 2020). Conspiratorial exceptionality: A case study of Mushunguli. Current position: Computational Linguist, LinkedIn.
Klaus Kim (BA 2019). Rere noun class agreement and pronominal marking. BA Honors thesis. Currently: Linguistics PhD student, UCLA.
Anna Mai, (PhD 2022). Current position: Postdoctoral researcher, Language and Computation in Neural Systems group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
Rodolfo Mata (PhD 2016). Traversing the Wall: A Study of Language Contact among Heritage and Immigrant Speakers of Spanish in the Tijuana-San Diego Border Area. Current position: Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, Modern and Classical Languages, Western Washington University.
Adam McCollum (PhD 2019). Gradience and locality in phonology: Case studies from Turkic vowel harmony. Current position: Assistant Professor, Linguistics, Rutgers University.
Hope Morgan (PhD 2017). The Phonology of Kenyan Sign Language (Southwestern Dialect). Current position: ERC Fellow, Hambug University.
Michael Obiri-Yeboah (PhD 2021). The Phonetics and Phonology of Gua. Current position: Assistant Teaching Professor, Georgetown University.
Collaborators and Connections
Vsevolod Kapatsinski, Associate Professor, University of Oregon, Linguistics Department
Peter Jenks, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley, Linguistics Department
Elyasir Julima, Angelo Naser & Moro Language Committee, Sudan
Michelle Yuan, Assistant Professor, UCLA, Linguistics Department.
Familia Indígena Unida, San Diego, California
San Diego Phonetics and Phonology Research Community, aka PhonCo