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Congratulations on CLI Faculty Publishing Op-Ed on Supreme Court Gun Regulation Case

Last week, Professor Kevin Tobia , Professor Nathan Schneider , and Dr. Brandon Waldon  published an op-ed in The Hill  on Garland v. VanDerStok, a high-profile gun…

October 24, 2024

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Call for papers: GURT 2025 Language and Food

The annual meeting of the Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics — GURT 2025 –will be held February 28-March 2, 2025 at Georgetown University.…

October 9, 2024

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An Interview with Dr. Marissa Fond on the Importance of Civil Discourse

We are excited to share a recent interview with Dr. Marissa Fond as part of Georgetown University’s ongoing “Ask a Professor” series. In this insightful discussion, Dr.…

October 2, 2024

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Congratulations to CLI Labs on Paper Acceptances at EMNLP 2024!

We are thrilled to announce that several papers from our students and faculty at the Computational Linguistics and Information (CLI) Labs have been accepted at the prestigious…

September 30, 2024

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Dr. Brandon Waldon and His Team File Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Gun Regulation Case

Dr. Brandon Waldon, along with scholars from Georgetown, Brandeis, and Stanford, has filed an amicus brief for an upcoming Supreme Court case on gun regulation. The case focuses…

September 10, 2024

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Linguistics Doctoral Student Received ACTFL Birkmaier Award

Congratulations to Dr. Rima Elabdali for receiving the 2024 ACTFL Birkmaier Award  for her dissertation titled Negotiating Belonging and Securitization…

September 5, 2024

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Department Newsletter 2024

Chair’s Message Dear Students, Colleagues, Alumni, and Friends, As we look forward to the new year, I’m very happy to share our inaugural 2024 Newsletter showcasing some of…

September 2, 2024

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Linguistics Doctoral Student Awarded Best Student Paper at NCA2023

Congratulations to Hannah Fedder Williams, PhD student in Sociolinguistics, for receiving the Best Student Paper Award at the 2023 National Communication Association Conference !…

November 13, 2023

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Linguistics Dept. awarded $300,000 by U.S. Dept. of Education for researching language outcomes in intensive language study programs

Three Linguistics faculty members are leading a 3-year project to research language outcomes of Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) program participants. Read the full press…

November 6, 2023

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Linguistics Doctoral Student Awarded TIRF Doctoral Dissertation Grant

Linguistics doctoral student Negar Siyari has been awarded a coveted TIRF doctoral dissertation grant for the completion of her dissertation titled From Displacement to…

November 6, 2023