Student Directory

Abby Aguilar
MA TESOL
email: abby.davis@mavs.uta.edu

Zahra Mostafa Alsinan
MA TESOL
email: zahra.alsinan@mavs.uta.edu

Dhaifallah Alzahrani
MA Linguistcs
email: dhaifallah.alzahrani@mavs.uta.edu

Daniel Amy
MA Linguistics
email: daniel.amy@mavs.uta.edu

Emily Bender
MA TESOL
email: emily.bender@mavs.uta.edu

Matthew Benton
PhD Linguistics
interests: speech rhythm, corpus analysis
dissertation topic: "A perceptual investigation of speech rhythm based on a continuum of durational change"
links: Research Profile | Professional Page
email: matthew.benton@mavs.uta.edu

Yuvraj Brahmin
PhD Linguistics
interests: language documentation and description
dissertation topic: "Jhangar of Nepal: a comparative perspective"
links: Research Profile
email: yuvraj.brahmin@mavs.uta.edu

Lynnelle Rhinier Brown
PhD Linguistics
interests: corpus analysis of speech acts
dissertation topic: "A corpus study of naturally occurring spoken English requests in a context analysis approach"
links: Research Profile
email: lynnelle.rhinier@mavs.uta.edu

Darcey Browning
PhD Linguistics
email:darcey.browning@mavs.uta.edu

Vicki Caña
PhD Linguistics
email:vicki.cana@mavs.uta.edu

Natalie Carter
PhD Linguistics
interests: corpus analysis of speech acts
dissertation topic: "A Corpus-Based Study of Threats"
links: Research Profile
email: natalie.carter@mavs.uta.edu

Yung Yu Choi
MA Linguistics
email: yungyu.choi@mavs.uta.edu

Kathryn Cooper
MA Linguistics
email: kathryn.cooper@mavs.uta.edu

Samantha Cornelius
MA Linguistics
interests: morphosyntax, modal auxiliaries, neologism formation, phonotactics
links: Research Profile
lab affiliation: Psycholinguistics Lab, Speech Sounds Lab
email: samantha.cornelius@mavs.uta.edu

Michelle Crabtree
MA TESOL
email: michelle.crabtree@mavs.uta.edu

Heather Davis
MA Linguistics
email: heatheradavis@mavs.uta.edu

Namrata Dubey
PhD Linguistics
links: Research Profile | Professional Page
email: namrata.dubey@mavs.uta.edu

Kathy Estell
MA TESOL
email: kathleen.estell@mavs.uta.edu

Nathan Eversole
PhD Linguistics
links: Research Profile | Professional Page
email: nathaniel.eversole@mavs.uta.edu

Justin Fuller
MA Linguistics
interests: phonetics, lab phonology, syntax, pragmatics
links: Research Profile
lab affiliation: Speech Sounds Lab
email: justin.fuller@mavs.uta.edu

Holly Hecht
MA TESOL
email: holly.hecht@mavs.uta.edu

Joshua Jensen
PhD Linguistics
interests: multi-verb constructions, meter in non-Western poetry, language description & documentation
dissertation topic: "Clauses and clause types in Jarai"
links: Research Profile | Professional Page
assistantship: GTA LING 3330 Phonetics and Phonology training
lab affiliation: Native American Languages Lab
office: Hammond 121 | email: jjensen@uta.edu

Iya Khelm
PhD Linguistics
interests: syntax, psycholinguistics
links: Research Profile
assistantship: GTA (Instructor of Record), LING 2301 Introduction to the Study of Human Language; GRA to Jeffrey Witzel
lab affiliation:Psycholinguistics Lab
office: Hammond 121 | email: iya.khelm@mavs.uta.edu

Sok-Hun Kim
PhD Linguistics
interests: semantics/pragmatics, text analysis, corpus linguistics
dissertation topic: "A Corpus-based Analysis of Discourse Anaphora in English and Korean: A Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Approach"
links: Research Profile
email: sokhun.kim@mavs.uta.edu

Ju-Young Lee
PhD Linguistics
interests: second language acquisition, phonetics/phonology, computer-assisted language learning
links: Research Profile | Professional Page
assistantship: GTA, LING 6381: Research Design and Statistics
office: Trimble Hall 217-A | email: ju-young.lee@mavs.uta.edu

Ashley Lober McKeever
PhD Linguistics
interests: meter in non-Western languages; phonological analysis of tone
dissertation topic: meter in Fur folk verse
links: Research Profile | Professional Page
email: ashley.mckeever@mavs.uta.edu

Mohamed Mwamzandi
PhD Linguistics
links: Research Profile | Professional Page
email: mohamed.mwamzandi@mavs.uta.edu

Monica Nesbitt
MA Linguistics
interests: phonetics and phonology, child language acquisition and bilingualism
assistantship: GRA Department of Curriculum and Instruction
lab affiliation:Mind, Brain and Education Lab Assistant, Phonetics Lab Researcher
office: Hammond Hall 415 | email: monica.nesbitt@mavs.uta.edu

Kelley O'Conan
MA Linguistics
interests: transient communities & language variation
email: kelley.oconan@mavs.uta.edu

Keunhyung Park
MA TESOL
email: keunhyug.park@mavs.uta.edu

Lori Pierce
PhD Linguistics
links: Research Profile | Professional Page
email: lori.mclain@mavs.uta.edu

Amber Rollins
MA TESOL
email: amber.rollins@mavs.uta.edu

Curtis Russell
MA TESOL
email: curtis.russell@mavs.uta.edu

Caitlin Sapaugh
MA TESOL
email: caitlin.sapaugh@mavs.uta.edu

Ehsan Shafiei
MA Linguistics
email: ehsan.shafieezargar@mavs.uta.edu

Khristafer Sheffield
MA Linguistics
email: khristafer.sheffield@mavs.uta.edu

Ruoying Shi
MA TESOL
email: ruoying.shi@mavs.uta.edu

Libby Tatz
PhD Linguistics
interests: Native American linguistics, field methodology, language documentation and revitalization
links: Research Profile
email: elizabeth.tatz@mavs.uta.edu

Lynn Vara
MA TESOL
email: lynn.vara@mavs.uta.edu

Fernando Velazquez
MA TESOL
email: fernando.velazquez@mavs.uta.edu

Vitaly Voinov
PhD Linguistics
interests: Tuvan language structure and maintenance; linguistic politeness in Turkic languages; Altaic reconstruction; corpus linguistics; textlinguistics; translation methodology; textual criticism of the Bible; kinship terminology
dissertation topic: Politeness in the Tuvan language
links: Research Profile | Professional Page
email: vitaly.voinov@mavs.uta.edu

Emily Waddle
MA Linguistics
interests: address terms, lexical decomposition, theories of meaning, ineffability/codability, taboo language, stylistics
links: Research Profile
email: emily.waddle@mavs.uta.edu

Chloe Williams
MA Linguistics
email: chloe.williams@mavs.uta.edu

Kristopher Wright
PhD Linguistics
links: Research Profile
email:kristopher.wright@mavs.uta.edu