Advising

PhD Students (chair/advisor)

• • Anna Belew, Ph.D. (2020) Sociolinguistic Documentation of Language Shift and Maintenance in Iyasa. Co-chair: Lyle Campbell. 

    • • now: Outreach Coordinator for the Endangered Languages Project

  • Olivia Bianchini (in progress)

  • Emma Breslow (in progress)

  • Nicki Butler (in progress)

  • Peter Chong, Ph.D. (2019) The effect of talker nativeness on the perception of voicing in syllable-initial plosives by American English monolinguals. 

    • • now: Assistant Professor at Universiti Sains Malaysia

  • Katie Gao, Ph.D. (2017) Dynamics of language contact in China: Ethnolinguistic diversity and variation in Yunnan. 

    • • now: Manager of Research and Communications for education system improvement at McREL International

  • James Grama, Ph.D. (2015) Phonetic variation and change in Hawai‘i Creole vowels. 

    • • now: Research Fellow at University Duisburg-Essen

  • Kate Hardeman-Guthrie, Ph.D. (2013) Learners of Mandarin and sajiao: Gender performance in a second language. 

    • • now: Adjunct Instructor for the Global Online English Program at University of Central Florida

  • Jonny Kim, Ph.D. (2018) Socially-conditioned links between words and phonetic realizations. 

    • • now: Assistant Professor at Pusan National University

  • M. Joelle Kirtley, Ph.D. (2015) Language, identity, and non-binary gender in Hawai‘i. 

    • • now: CEO of Mass Liberation

  • Claire Stabile, Ph.D. (2019) “Like, Local people doing that”: Variation in the production and social perception of discourse-pragmatic like in Pidgin and Hawai‘i English . Co-chair: Kamil Deen. 

    • • now: Data Analyst with Kamehameha Schools Kealapono Department

  • Katherine Strong, ABD (in progress)

Current and Past MA Students (chair/advisor)

• • Michelle Kamigaki Baron, May 2020 (now: PhD student at UBC)

  • Laura Berbusse Chynoweth, December 2010 (now: CEO at Granted Fundraising Consultants)

  • Bethany Kaleialohapau‘ole Chun Comstock, December 2015 

  • Lydia Eastman (in progress)

  • Eli Fessler (in progress)

  • Aaron Hamer (co-advisor with Kamil Deen), August 2016 

  • Noella Handley, May 2019

  • Caroline Hendy, May 2022

  • Joel Jessen (in progress)

  • M. Joelle Kirtley (chair), Speech in the U.S. Military: A sociophonetic perception approach to identity and meaning, March 2011 (now: CEO at Mass Liberation)

  • Amanda Le (in progress)

  • Rachel Schutz, December 2012 (now: Assistant Professor of Voice at Ithaca College)

  • Jessica Seid, May 2012 (now: yoga instructor)