Descriptive and documentary linguistics; phonology; syntax; historical linguistics

Recruitment and admissions, student progress checks, advising, TA coordinator, payroll, fee remissions, committee consultant, student awards, stipends, block grant/graduate funding support, email list administrator

Affiliation: Brown University

Dissertation: Communicative care across borders: Language, materiality, and affect in transnational family life

Personnel policy and procedures, faculty recruitment and appointments, ladder faculty merits, promotions, career steps, retentions, appraisals, non-Senate faculty re-appointments, excellence reviews, merits, payroll, additional compensation, and contracts, sabbatical and other leaves, donor acknowledgment, faculty email list administrator, visiting scholars, new faculty email, UCSBNetID, orientation

Dissertation: Towards a discourse model of prosodic structure: A prosodic and syntactic analysis of declination in Japanese

Affiliation: SIL International

Dissertation: A Grammar of Dongwan Tibetan

Language revitalization; minoritized languages; endangered languages; language documentation; Languages of French Polynesia; Native American Languages; Romance Languages; Germanic Languages (Frisian); Basque; Phonology; Phonetic Variation; Minoritized Languages and (Social) Media; Minoritized Language Translation.

Affiliation: University of Hawai'i

Dissertation: Discourse, landscape, and directional reference in Ahtna

Psycholinguistics; sentence production; sentence processing; memory and language; eye-tracking; statistical modeling

Affiliation: University of Virginia

Dissertation: Realis and irrealis: Chini verb morphology, clause chaining, and discourse

Affliation: Carpinteria Unified School District

Dissertation: Contextual constraints on interaction: Soaring talk

Affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles 

Dissertation: Competing Discourse of Diversity and Inclusion: Institutional Rhetoric and Graduate Student Narratives at Two Minority Serving Institutions

Typological, functional, and community-based approaches to phonology, morphology, syntax, historical linguistics, language documentation, lexical semantics, lexicography, language and culture, especially regarding Otomanguean languages spoken in Mexico and California

Affiliation: Oklahoma State University

Dissertation: Reconstructing stress in Proto-Tibetan: A study in historical comparative acoustics

Language documentation, description and revitalization; typology; complex adaptive systems; emergent grammar; modality/modal-evidential systems; voice; argument-marking systems; Austronesian/Formosan linguistics; Chinese linguistics

Language acquisition; language socialization; Japanese/Korean linguistics; discourse and grammar

Affiliation: Amazon

Dissertation: Computing representations of the structure of written discourse

Intercultural communication; ethnography and communication; theories of cultural adjustment; social semiotic processes of identification; language ideologies and linguistic landscapes; language and globalization

Affiliation: San José State University

Dissertation: A functional grammar of Khatso

Discourse and grammar; sociocultural linguistics; referential pragmatics; grammaticization and emergence; complex adaptive linguistics; corpus linguistics; transcription; Mayan languages

Sociocultural linguistics; transgender linguistics; language, gender, and sexuality; identity formation and communication

Caribbean Spanish, dialectology, emoji use & interpretation, language contact & change, sociocultural linguistics, Spanglish, and virtual language

phonology, typology, metaphor, fieldwork, language description and documentation, Uyghur, Turkic languages, Chinese

Affiliation: San Diego State University

Dissertation: Maintenance of ways of speaking in a community undergoing language shift: Language socialization in a Navajo preschool