Advising
Current PhD Students (chair/advisor)
Current PhD Students (chair/advisor)
- Anna Belew, ABD (co-chair with Lyle Campbell) (now the Outreach Coordinator for the Endangered Languages Project)
- Peter Chong, ABD
- Claire Stabile, ABD (co-chair with Kamil Deen) (now a data analyst with Kamehameha Schools Kealapono Department)
- Ha‘alilio Solomon (now an instructor of Hawaiian language in Kawaihuelani at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa)
Past PhD Students (chair)
Past PhD Students (chair)
- Katie Gao, Ph.D. (2017) Dynamics of language contact in China: Ethnolinguistic diversity and variation in Yunnan. (now the 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 a postdoc at ANU)
- Kate Hardeman-Guthrie, Ph.D. (2013) Learners of Mandarin and sajiao: Gender performance in a second language. (now a full-time Mum)
- Jonny Kim, Ph.D. (2018) Socially-conditioned links between words and phonetic realizations. (now an Assistant Professor at Hanyang University)
- M. Joelle Kirtley, Ph.D. (2015) Language, identity, and non-binary gender in Hawai‘i.
Current and Past PhD Students (committee member)
Current and Past PhD Students (committee member)
- Akiemi Glenn, Ph.D. (2012) Wayfinding in Pacific linguascapes: Negotiating Tokelau linguistic identities in Hawai‘i (chair: Yuko Otsuka)
- Lisa Johnson (in progress) PhD student at the University of Utah (chair: Marianna DiPaolo)
- Eden Kaiser, Ph.D. (2011) Sociophonetics of Hmong American English in Minnesota. University of Minnesota (chair: Benjamin Munson)
- Chae-Eun Kim, Ph.D. (2013) Asymmetries in the production of relative clauses: First and second language acquisition (chair: William O'Grady)
- Nala Huiying Lee, Ph.D. (2014) A grammar of Baba Malay with sociophonetic considerations (chair: Lyle Campbell) (now an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore)
- Bethany Schwartz (in progress) PhD student in the Department of Second Language Studies (chair: Theres Grüter)
- Melody Ross, Ph.D. (2017) Attitudes toward Tetun Dili: A language of East Timor (co-chairs: Andrea Berez-Kroeker and Christina Higgins)
- Mary Walworth, Ph.D. (2014) The language of Rapa Iti: A grammar of a language in change (chair: Yuko Otsuka) (now a language researcher for NSF and Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History)
- So Young Yi, Ph.D. (2015) Sociophonetic variations in Korean constituent ending suffixes: -ko and -to. Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (chair: Ho-min Sohn)
Current and Past MA Students
Current and Past MA Students
- Michelle Baron (in-progress)
- Olivia Bianchini (in progress)
- Laura Berbusse Chynoweth, December 2010 (now the CEO at Granted Fundraising Consultants)
- Bethany Kaleialohapau‘ole Chun Comstock, December 2015
- Susanne DeVore (reader) Humor in Mandarin and English, Unpublished scholarly paper in the East Asian Languages and Literature Department, May 2014 (now a PhD student in SLS at UH)
- Aaron Hamer (co-advisor with Kamil Deen), August 2016 (now at Amazon)
- Noella Handley (in-progress)
- M. Joelle Kirtley (chair), Speech in the U.S. Military: A Sociophonetic Perception Approach to Identity and Meaning, March 2011
- Rachel Schutz, December 2012 (now an Assistant Professor of Voice at Ithaca College)
- Jessica Seid, May 2012