Department of Linguistics

Kathryn Altemore
Interests: Discourse Analysis - Conversation, Language and Education 

Sehar Azad
Interests: Language ideology, language discrimination

Claudia Caicedo
Interests: Developing awareness about the advantages of cross-culturally appropriate and effective translations

Sonia Checchia
Interests: Cross-Cultural Communication, training  

Alison Cline
Interests: foreign service, intercultural communication, marketing, brand development

Francesa Di Silivo
Interests: Linguistic framing of non-profit causes, language and literacy, language and education, communications (for non-profit environmental or educational organizations)

Heather Ewert
Interests: interpreter neutrality, teaching (adult education), intercultural communication, branding and marketing, computer–mediated communication, Iron Range English

Katy Hewett
Interests: Cross-Cultural Communication, Gender, Diversity Consulting, Non-Profit organizations   

Jamie Hudzik
Interests: Discourse Analysis (Conversation and Narrative), Forensic Linguistics, Pittsburgh dialect, coaching / training (leadership, diversity)

Eileen Mathis
Eileen originally joined MBS/Vox (a healthcare communication firm) as a research intern, a position she held for nearly three years while pursuing her Bachelor’s degree in linguistics.  After completing the MLC coursework, Eileen returned to MBS/Vox as Senior Analyst in January of 2008.  As Senior Analyst, Eileen’s responsibilities involve completing quantitative and qualitative analyses of doctor-patient communication, utilizing her training and expertise in a variety of disease states and therapeutic areas.  Eileen’s academic work has been focused in health communication.  As part of her graduate studies, Eileen did research in medical discourse analysis, including papers on patient use of reported speech and the role of discourse markers in genetic counseling sessions, consent talk on the popular television show, House, and identity construction of individuals with HIV/AIDS in mass media.

Marni Myers
Marni Myers is a recovering government lackey who spent more than seven years in the State Department, including an overseas tour to Jordan with the Foreign Service, before deciding to give up all those federal holidays to pursue a new career in the private sector last Fall.  She now helps manage a team that does research and analysis on geopolitical issues world-wide.  Marni received a Bachelor's degree in French from New York University in 1996.  She speaks French, Dutch, and Farsi.  She's still not sure what she'll do with the MLC degree when she obtains it, but she sure is having a good time studying at Georgetown

Anissa Sorokin
Interests:  intercultural communication, language and cognition, discourse analysis, langauge and gender, cognitive interviewing, research writing and  editing