The semester is in full swing and so are the Sociolinguistics students at Michigan State! There’s no shortage of research going on, including senior theses, research papers, conference preparation and more! If you’re interested in sociolinguistics, would like to get involved in research, or just want to see what it’s like, please feel free to join us for our meetings. We’d be happy to have you!
Our schedule can be found here!
Next Wednesday, February 28th, in honor of Black History Month, we’ll be screening the amazing new documentary, Talking Black in America in B310 Wells Hall, 6pm.
51 Citizen Scholars made the Dean's List for Fall 2017! Congrats to all of our students on their hard work last semester! pic.twitter.com/GDjLz7fuLT
— MSU Citizen Scholars (@MSUCitScholars) January 18, 2018
Congratulations to Mingzhe Zheng, who on November 21, 2017 successfully defended his doctoral dissertation You have to learn to adapt: A sociolinguistic study of the “Asian City” of southeast Michigan. Dr Zheng is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Chinese at Earlham College, Indiana.
Monica Nesbitt, PhD candidate in Linguistics, was shortlisted for a travel award to the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting in Salt Lake City, January 2018. Awards are granted by the LSA’s Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics (CEDL).
In a recent news announcement, the committee named five student recipients of the awards. Monica received an “honorable mention” for what the committee called her “high caliber application”. Congratulations, Monica, and good luck with your application next year!