PhD Dissertations Directed or Co-Directed

  • Williams Asamoah Frimpong, ABD. “Social Ties in Language Use, Language Maintenance and Shift among the Congolese in Urbana-Champaign: A Sociolinguistics Study”, prelims passed in May 2023.
  • Charlotte Prieu, 2022, “Language Practices of a Digital Black Feminist Community on French Twitter: Gender, Race, and Identity”, w. K. Smalls (Linguistics & Anthropology, UIUC), Analytical Linguist at Amazon.com.
  • Gyula Zsombok, 2020, “Dynamics of Prescriptivism and Lexical Borrowings in Contemporary France”, with J. Roy (UIUC), Assistant Professor tenure-track, Middlebury College, VT.
    https://zsombokgy.com

  • Jessica A. Nicholas, Ph.D. 2018, “Social and learner-specific factors in the acquisition of native-like phonetic contrasts by study-abroad students in Paris, France”, with A. Mroz, Executive Director of The Immigration Project (NGO), Normal, IL.

  • Richard Beyogle, Ph.D. 2015, with A. M. Escobar (Spanish), “Language contact in two border communities in Burkina Faso and Ghana: Lexical borrowing in Dagara”, Visiting Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-beyogle-phd-85183033

  • Christopher M. Carignan, Ph.D. 2013, with R. Shosted (Linguistics), “When nasal is more than nasal: the oral articulation of nasal vowels in two dialects of French”, Research Scientist, Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
    http://www.christophercarignan.com/

  • Christopher Michael Stewart, Ph.D. 2009, “Perceptions of Parisian French: From Language Attitudes to Speech Perception”, Analytical Linguist, Google, Santa Monica, California
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophermstewart

  • Jessica Miller, Ph.D. 2007, “Swiss French Prosody: Intonation, Rate, and Speaking Style in the Vaud Canton”, Professor, Department of Modern Languages, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
    https://www.uwec.edu/profiles/millerjs/

  • Samira Hassa, Ph.D. 2006, “De la Médina à la Ville Nouvelle : études ethnolinguistiques des choix codiques dans l’espace urbain de Fes (Maroc)”, Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Manhattan College, New York
    https://manhattan.edu/campus-directory/samira.hassa

  • Fallou Ngom, Ph.D. 2002, with D. Kibbee, “Lexical borrowings as sociolinguistic variables in Saint-Louis, Sénégal, Professor, Director of the African Studies Center, Department of Anthropology, Boston University
    http://www.bu.edu/anthrop/people/faculty/f-ngom/