Alumni

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Yuka Akiyama

  • Concentration: Applied Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2017-2018
  • Current Position: Junior Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Engineering

Fathiya Al Rashdi

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2015-2016
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Sultan Qaboos University in Oman

Luke Amoroso

  • Concentration: General Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2015-2016
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor, Linguistics, Truman State University

Trevor Adriaanse

  • Concentration: Computational Linguistics, MS
  • Graduation Year: 2020-2021
  • Current Position: Department of Defense as a Natural Language Processing Researcher

Marta Baffy

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2015-2016
  • Current Position: Director of the Two-Year LL.M. Program, Georgetown Law

Maya Barzilai

  • Concentration: General Linguistics, Ph.D.
  • Graduation Year: 2020-2021
  • Adjunct Lecturer at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH (Fall 2021); Linguistic Research Manager at Ellipsis Health in San Francisco, CA

Laura Bell

  • Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics, Ph.D.
  • Graduation Year: 2020

Sarah Bellavance

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, MS
  • Graduation Year: 2020-2021
  • Current Position: PhD student in the Communicative Sciences and Disorders department at NYU, funded by the Steinhardt Doctoral Fellowship

Margaret Borowczyk

  • Concentration: Applied Linguistics
  • Graduation Year: 2021
  • Current Position: User Experience Researcher, Comcast

Kelsey Boyce

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, MLC
  • Graduation Year: 2016-2017
  • Current Position: Graduate Program in Speech and Language Pathology, Northeastern University

Edvan Brito

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2016-2017
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor and Head of the Portuguese Program at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Kristine Bundschuh

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, MLC
  • Graduation Year: 2014-2015
  • Current Position: Research Associate, Lexia Learning–A Rosetta Stone Company

Andrew Chester

  • Concentration: General Linguistics, MS
  • Graduation Year: 2014-2015
  • Current Position: Teaching Assistant, Linguistics, Framingham State University’s International Education program

Yanyan Cui

  • Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2015-2016
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor, Academy for Research on Chinese Ethnic Minority Languages, Minzu University of China

Alix Fetch

  • Concentration: Theoretical/Cognitive Science Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2020-2021
  • Current Position: Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine as a Clinical Research Coordinator

Heidi Getz

  • Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics, Cognitive Science, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2017-2018
  • Current Position: Postdoctorate Research Fellow, Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, Georgetown University

Daniel Ginsberg

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2015-2016
  • Current Position: Professional Fellow, American Anthropological Association

Jessica Grieser

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2014-2015
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor, Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics, Department of English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Hillary Harner

  • Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2016-2017
  • Current Position: Google

Jonathan Havenhill

  • Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2018-2019
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, The University of Hong Kong

Didem Ikizoglu

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2021-2022
  • Current Position: Language Engineer, Amazon

Md. Jahurul Islam

  • Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics, PhD (Phonology)
  • Graduation Year: 2018-2019
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor of English, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Hang Jiang

  • Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics, MS
  • Graduation Year: 2018-2019

Amy Kim

  • Concentration: Applied Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2021

Sakiko Kajino

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2014-2015
  • Current Position: Adjunct Instructor in Japanese, American University

Julie Lake

  • Concentration: Applied Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2014-2015
  • Current Position: Lecturer in Legal English​ ​& Assistant Director of Two-Year LL.M. Program, Graduate Programs, Georgetown Law

Eunji Lee

  • Concentration: General Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2014-2015
  • Current Position: Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania

Jong Bong Lee

  • Concentration: Applied Linguistics, MAT-ESL
  • Graduation Year: 2014-2015
  • Current Position: PhD student in Second Language Studies, Michigan State University

Jinsok Lee

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2014-2015
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor, The Catholic College, The Catholic University of Korea

Emma Manning

  • Concentration: Computational Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2021
  • Current Position: Linguist, Google

Alexandria Marsters

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2018-2019
  • Current Position: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, DC

Todd McKay

  • Concentration: Applied Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2019
  • Current Position:  Instructor in the Department of Educational Services’ Specialized English Language Program at St. George’s University in Grenada, West Indies

Anastasia Mozgalina

  • Concentration: Applied Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2014-2015
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor, Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language, Department of Slavic Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Madeleine Oakley

  • Concentration: General Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2020-2021
  • Current Position: NSF postdoctoral research fellow, North Carolina State University

Hae In Park

  • Concentration: Applied Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2015-2016
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Linguistics & Translation Studies, Kyung Hee University, South Korea

Stacy Petersen

  • Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2018-2019
  • Current Position: Computational Linguist, MITRE

Kelsey Pettit

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, MS
  • Graduation Year: 2014-2015
  • Current Position: ESL instructor, Georgetown Summer Discovery

Ashleigh Pipes

  • Concentration: Applied Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2018-2019

Andrea Price

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, MLC
  • Graduation Year: 2014-2015
  • Current Position: Health Education Specialist, Lorain County General Health District

Mackenzie Price

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2016-2017
  • Current Position: FrameWorks Institute in Washington DC / Adjunct, Georgetown McDonough School of Business

Aisulu Raspayeva

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2018-2019
  • Current Position: Post Doctorate, Rice University

Katherine Riestenberg

  • Concentration: General Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2017-2018
  • Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Tri-College Department of Linguistics, Bryn Mawr College

Shoko Sasayama

  • Concentration: Applied Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2015-2016
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor (Faculty Development Specialist), University of Tokyo

Laura Siebecker

  • Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2014-2015
  • Current Position: Adjunct Professor, Green Mountain College; Second Language Acquisition Specialist, National Foreign Language Center, UMD

Sylvia Sierra

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2016-2017
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University

Dan Simonson

  • Concentration: Computational Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2017-2018
  • Current position: Principal Computational Linguist, BlackBoiler

Sean Simpson

  • Concentration: Computational Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2019
  • Current position: Analytical Linguist, Google

Young-A Son

  • Concentration: Applied Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2017-2018

Yoonsang Song

  • Concentration: General Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2015-2016
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong

Barbara Soukup

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, Ph.D.
  • Graduation Year: 2007-2008
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor, German Dept. University of Vienna

Sakol Suethanapornkul

  • Concentration: Applied Linguistics, Ph.D.
  • Graduation Year: 2019-2020

Hannah Sullivan

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, MLC
  • Graduation Year: 2016-2017
  • Current Position: Senior Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Bridge Initiative (a research project on Islamophobia housed in the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding)

Kaitlyn Tagarelli

  • Concentration: Applied Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2014-2015
  • Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Rachel Thorson

  • Concentration: Applied Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2020-2021
  • Current Position: Director of Content, SpanishDict/inglés.com 

Yasser Teimouri

  • Concentration: Applied Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2018-2019

Brandon Tullock

  • Concentration: Applied Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2020
  • Current Position: Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes, GWU

Amelia Tseng

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2015-2016
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor, World Languages and Cultures, American University

Francesca Venezia

  • Concentration: Applied Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2020-2021
  • Current Position: Researcher at Mathematica Policy Research

Mark Visonà

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2020-2021
  • Current Position: Postdoc Research Associate, Department of English, Iowa State University; Adjunct Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Psychology, California University of Pennsylvania

Isaac Warren

  • Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics, MS
  • Graduation Year: 2020-2021

Laura West

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2015-2016
  • Current Position: Manager, Analytics and Innovation, Burson-Marsteller

John Wildes

  • Concentration: Sociolinguistics, MS
  • Graduation Year: 2016-2017
  • Current Position: Spanish Teacher, St. Mary’s Ryken High School, Leonardtown, MD

Lindley Winchester

  • Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2018-2019
  • Current Position: Language Engineer, Amazon, Seattle, WA

Yiran Xu

  • Concentration: Applied Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2020-2021
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Global Arts, Media and Writing Studies, University of California, Merced

Akitaka Yamada

  • Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2018-2019
  • Current Position: Associate Professor, Division of Language and Culture, Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University

Sarah Young

  • Concentration: Applied Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2015-2016
  • Current Position: Professorial Lecturer, MA TESOL Program, American University

Shuo Zhang

  • Concentration: General Linguistics, PhD
  • Graduation Year: 2017-2018
  • Current Position: Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Natural Language Processing), Algorithms and Connected Experience (ACE) Group, Bose Corporation

Jingyuan Zhuang

  • Concentration: Applied Linguistics, MS
  • Graduation Year: 2016-2017
  • Current Position: PhD Program, Applied Linguistics, Penn State

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