Congratulations!

Alexa Cohen (Class of 2012) received a prestigious award, 

Dornsife Scholars, which provides 

$10,000 prizes

 for 

graduate/professional school studies

. There are only 10 of these awards for all the graduating 

seniors in Dornsife College. Alexa is a double major in 

Linguistics and English. 

She has worked with Michael Shepherd (Dornsife post-doctoral fellow) on a project on the use of dialect in literature. She is also conducting a research project with Elsi Kaiser at the

USC Language Processing Lab

investigating the relation between 

perspective-taking, pronoun resolution and free indirect discourse. 

Congratulations to Alexa!