I received my Ph.D in Linguistics from New York University in September 2011. My specialty is Sociolinguistics, particularly sociolinguistic variation and sociolinguistic style.
My dissertation, “Dark-Skinned White Girls”: Linguistic and Ideological Variation Among White Women with African American Ties in the Urban Midwest, addresses issues pertaining to language, race and identity, language and subjectivity, American regional and ethnic dialects, L-vocalization, language ideology, gender and language, social and historical constructions of race, material style, second dialect acquisition, and language and media representations.
