Advising

Current PhD Students (chair/advisor)

Olivia Bianchini
Noelani Kong-Johnson
Ha‘alilio Solomon, ABD (also an instructor of Hawaiian language in Kawaihuelani at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa)
Katherine Strong, ABD

Past PhD Students (chair)

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)
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)

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) (now: founder and Executive Director of the Pōpolo Project)
Kirsten Helgeson, ABD (chair: Gary Holton)
Lisa Johnson, ABD (chair: Marianna DiPaolo - University of Utah)
Eden Kaiser, Ph.D. (2011) Sociophonetics of Hmong American English in Minnesota. University of Minnesota (chair: Benjamin Munson)
Thomas Kettig, ABD (chair: Rory Turnbull)
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: Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore)
Bethany Schwartz, ABD (chair: Theres Grüter - Department of Second Language Studies)
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: 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

Michelle Kamigaki Baron, May 2020
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
Noella Handley, May 2019
M. Joelle Kirtley (chair), Speech in the U.S. Military: A Sociophonetic Perception Approach to Identity and Meaning, March 2011
Dylan McCurdy, MA student in Anthropology (committee member, in progress)
Anne Rivera, MA student in Communicology (committee member, in progress)
Rachel Schutz, December 2012 (now an Assistant Professor of Voice at Ithaca College)
Jessica Seid, May 2012