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 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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