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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