Advising
Current PhD Students (chair/advisor)
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)
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)
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: Research Fellow at the 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 Kamigaki Baron, May 2020 (now a PhD student at UBC)
- 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
- Amanda Le (in progress)
- Dylan McCurdy, MA student in Anthropology (committee member, in progress)
- Anne Rivera (committee member), Investigation of influences on code switching behaviors of African American men, unpublished MA thesis in Communicology, August 2020. (now a PhD student at Florida State University)
- Rachel Schutz, December 2012 (now an Assistant Professor of Voice at Ithaca College)
- Jessica Seid, May 2012