The Department of Linguistics Graduate Program has an enviable record of graduate job placements.
We commend these graduates for their scholarly and career achievements, and acknowledge the UC Davis linguistics faculty advisor for each.
2022
Claire Henderson:
- Advisor: Raúl Aranovich
- Dissertation: Ergativity in East Futunan Oral Narratives
Marinka Swift: Associate Director, Interdisciplinary Research Institute for the Study of (In)Equality (IRISE), University of Denver
- Advisor: Julia Menard-Warwick
- Dissertation: Language Ideologies and Belonging: Educational Experiences of Chicanx and Latinx University Students
Peter Torres: Assistant Professor, Department of English, Arizona State University
- Advisor: Vai Ramanathan
- Dissertation: The Nation’s Fix: The Language of the Opioid Crisis
2021
Ludmila Ciochina: Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain
- Advisor: David Corina
- Dissertation: Functional and Anatomical Adaptations in Multilingual Language Users
2020
Lisa Gonzalves: Assistant Principal, Fremont Adult and Continuing Education
- Advisor: Vai Ramanathan
- Dissertation: Understanding and Supporting Emergent Writing in L2 Adults Developing First-Time Literacy
Glen Heinrich-Wallace: Senior Scientist, Human Resources Research Organization
- Advisor: Claudia Sánchez-Gutiérrez
- Dissertation: On the Application of Item Response Models and Dependency Parsing to the Assessment of Early-stage Spanish Acquisition
Zoey Liu: Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Florida
- Advisor: Kenji Sagae
- Dissertation: Data-driven Crosslinguistic Modeling of Constituent Ordering Preferences
Ryan Redmond: A1 Chatbot Designer, JustAnswer; University of North Texas, Japanese instructor
- Advisor: Eric Louis Russell
- Dissertation: Herbivore in the streets: A participant observation approach to hybrid masculinity performance and the linguistic practices of underground male idols in Japan
Yuxiang Wang: Associate Professor, School of Foreign Studies, Wenzhou University
- Advisor: Chengzhi Chu
- Dissertation: An Investigation into the Linguistic Competence of Chinese Heritage Language Learners
2019
Caitlin Green
- Advisor: Julia Menard-Warwick
- Dissertation: Toward Increased Retention in University Computer Science Programs: A Language Socialization Approach
2018
Michelle Cohn: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Linguistics, UC Davis
- Advisor: Georgia Zellou, Santiago Barreda
- Dissertation: Investigating the effect of musical training on speech-in-speech perception: The role of f0, timing,and spectral cues
Kelly Corcoran: Edison Analytics, Business Analyst
- Advisor: Julia Menard-Warwick
- Dissertation: Wild Gals and Delusional Girls: Discursive and Linguistic Practices of Japanese Alternative Women's Fashion Magazines
William Dyer: Language Engineer, Amazon Web Services
- Advisor: Jack Hawkins
- Dissertation: Minimizing Integration Cost: A General Theory of Constituent Order
Emily Moline: Senior Curriculum Designer, Duolingo
- Advisor: Vai Ramanathan
- Dissertation: L1 and L2 Adult Emergent Literacy: Reading Patterns, Oracy, and Interaction Within an English Literacy Program
Gabriella Antonella Notarianni-Burk: Lecturer in Italian, Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz
- Advisor: Bob Bayley
- Dissertation: The Acquisition of Tense and Aspect by Instructed Adult Learners of Italian
Anna Reznik: Developer Relations Specialist, Apple
- Advisor: Julia Menard-Warwick
- Dissertation: “We All Grew Up on the Same Books”: The Role of Literacy in Language Socialization
2017
Katherine Evans: Lecturer, UC Santa Barbara Writing Program
- Advisor: Dana Ferris
- Dissertation: Engaging Undergraduate Writers: A Study of Motivational Dynamics in the Second Language Writing Classroom
Christopher Graham: Senior Language Engineer, Welocalize
- Advisor: Jack Hawkins
- Dissertation: Geographical correlates of rare word orders: a computation approach to quantitative typology and language contact
Renee Kemp: Research Data Specialist, California Department of Public Health
- Advisor: Georgia Zellou
- Dissertation: Lexical Effects on Second Language Acquisitions
Daniel Moglen: Education and Training Specialist, UC Davis Health
- Advisor: Julia Menard-Warwick
- Dissertation: Social Environments, Writing Support Networks, and Academic Writing: A Study of First Year International Graduate Students
Lajos Szoboszlai: Linguist and Language Instructor, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria; Adjunct Professor, Department of Native American Studies, Sonoma State University
- Advisor: Justin Spence
- Dissertation: Mutsun reclamation continued: Four years in a learner's effort to acquire language
2016
Laurel Lawyer: Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex (UK)
- Advisor: David Corina
- Dissertation: Underspecification in the Mental Lexicon
Lewis Lawyer: Reference Systems Manager, Cambridge University Press
- Advisor: Patrick Farrell, Martha Macri
- Dissertation: A Description of the Patwin Language
Dan Villarreal: Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh
- Advisor: Bob Bayley
- Dissertation: The Construction of Social Meaning: A Matched-Guise Investigation of the California Vowel Shift
2015
Serena Williams:
- Advisor: Julia Menard-Warwick
- Dissertation: Performativity in Wedding Narratives of Same- and Mixed-Sex Couples
2014
Deborah Cates: President, National Association for Interpreters in Education; Sign Language Coordinator, Iowa School for the Deaf
- Advisor: David Corina
- Dissertation: Predictors of Reading Comprehension Skill in Deaf and Hearing Bilingual Readers
Grant Eckstein: Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Brigham Young University
- Advisor: Dana Ferris
- Dissertation: Ideal versus Reality: Student Expectations and Experiences in Multilingual Writing Center Tutorials
Kristen Greer: Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Washington University in St. Louis
- Advisor: Patrick Farrell, Robert May
- Dissertation: A General Theory of Quantification
Cory Holland: Senior Linguist, Appen
- Advisor: Bob Bayley
- Dissertation: Shifting or Shifted? The State of California Vowels
Miki Mori: Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Centre Universitaire de Mayotte
- Advisor: Julia Menard-Warwick
- Dissertation: Negotiating Ownership When Incorporating Outside Sources: A Qualitative Study With Multilingual Undergraduate Students
Brian Slocum : Professor, College of Law, Florida State University
- Advisor: Raúl Aranovich
- Dissertation: Ordinary Meaning
2013
Emily Feuerherm: Associate Professor of Linguistics, Department of Language & Communication, University of Michigan, Flint; Director of the Bridge Program and TESOL Certificate Program
- Advisor: Vai Ramanathan
- Dissertation: Language Policies, Identities, and Education in Refugee Resettlement
Ariel Loring: Writing Specialist, Writing Support Center in the Academic Assistance and Tutoring Centers, UC Davis
- Advisor: Vai Ramanathan
- Dissertation: Language and U.S. citizenship: Meanings, Ideologies and Policies
2012
Li-fen Lin: Assistant Professor, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University
- Advisor: Julia Menard-Warwick
- Dissertation: On the Developmental Journey: An Ethnographic Study of Teacher Identity Development of NESTs and NNESTs in a US MATESOL Program
Brandon Loudermilk: Director of Data Science & Engineering, Spiceworks Ziff Davis
- Advisor: David Corina
- Dissertation: Cognitive mechanisms in the perception of sociolinguistic variation
Heather Sturman: Writing Specialist, Writing Support Center in the Academic Assistance and Tutoring Centers, UC Davis
- Advisor: Bob Bayley
- Dissertation: Immigrant Socialization Literacy Development among Girls in a U.S. High School
Christy Taylor: Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast (Queensland, Australia)
- Advisor: Vai Ramanathan
- Dissertation: Language and Nutrition (Mis)Information: Food Labels, FDA Policies and Meaning
2011
Duane Leonard: Professor of English as a Second Language (ESL), Sacramento City College
- Advisor: Karen Watson-Gegeo
- Dissertation: Why We Teach "ESL" Writing: A Socio-historic Discussion of an Undergraduate ESL Program2010
2010
Lisa Bonnici: English Language Development (ELD) Coordinator, Green Dot Public Schools California
- Advisor: Bob Bayley
- Dissertation: Variation in Maltese English: The Interplay of the Local and the Global in an Emerging Postcolonial Variety
Michael Grosvald: Associate Professor, Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Qatar University
- Advisor: David Corina
- Dissertation: Long-Distance Coarticulation: A Production and Perception Study of English and American Sign Language
Ann Kelleher: Small-Business Owner
- Advisor: Vai Ramanathan
- Dissertation: Policies and Identities in Mandarin Education: The Situated Multilingualism of University-level "Heritage" Language Learners
Sze-wei Liao: Language Learning Specialist, Global English
- Advisor: Bob Bayley
- Dissertation: Identity, Ideology and Language Variation: A Sociolinguistic Study of Mandarin in Central Taiwan
Dionne Soares Palmer: Curriculum Designer, Cambly Inc.
- Advisor: Julia Menard-Warwick
- Dissertation: Second Language Pragmatic Socialization in World of Warcraft
2009
Yuriko Miyamoto Caltabiano: Lecturer in Japanese, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
- Advisor: Julia Menard-Warwick
- Dissertation: Children’s Negotiation of Multicultural Identities and Multiple Languages in Japan
Vineeta Chand: Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Essex (UK)
- Advisor: Janet Shibamoto-Smith
- Dissertation: Who Owns English? Political, Social and Linguistic Dimensions of Urban Indian English Language Practices
Tammy Gales: Associate Professor of Linguistics, Department of Comparative Literature, Languages, and Linguistics, Hofstra University
- Advisor: Janet Shibamoto-Smith
- Dissertation: Ideologies of Violence: A Corpus and Discourse Analytic Approach to Stance in Threatening Communications
2008
Kristina de Korsak: Assistant Professor, School of Education, Sonoma State University
- Advisor: Lenora Timm
- Dissertation: Fuzzy Borders: Children's exploration of their languages and identities
Paul McPherron: Professor of Applied Linguistics, Department of English, Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY)
- Advisor: Vai Ramanathan
- Dissertation: Internationalizing Teaching, Localizing English: Language Teaching Reforms Through a South Chinese University