Hi, I'm Dr. Rachel Elizabeth Weissler.

I am a sociolinguist and assistant professor of Linguistics at the University of Oregon. 

My research investigates how the accumulation of an individual's linguistic experiences shapes linguistic behavior, perception, and ideology formation, as assessed through neurophysiological methods (EEG), psycholinguistic survey approaches, and media analysis. A central strand of this work is raciolinguistic emotion perception, examining how listeners judge the race and emotion of speakers. As an African American English scholar, I pay particular attention to how mediated persona and stereotype accumulation shape racialized perceptions of speech.

I run the Raciolinguistic Emotion Perception Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics Lab or REPPS Lab. You can check out my Google Scholar page here and email me if you'd like to be in touch: rweissle [AT] uoregon [DOT] edu .

I am not accepting graduate students at this time.

I earned my bachelors degree at the historically women's institution, Bryn Mawr College (ANASSA KATA), and my Masters and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Michigan (GO BLUE!). I am always happy to talk to alumni and people interested in these institutions, as they were highly impactful on my life. 

Lastly,  I acknowledge that I work on Kalapuya Iliʔi – the traditional Indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people who were here first and who will always be here. It is a place where Indigenous languages and multilingualism once thrived. I acknowledge and honor the traditional stewards of this land.