Congratulations to Our New BAs and PhDs!

June can mean only one thing — graduation season! The USC Department of Linguistics graduated 13 undergraduates and 6 graduate students this year. In addition, many grad students defended dissertations in the last few weeks. We proudly congratulate all of the following students on their recent graduation and successful defenses, not to mention their many years of hard work at USC. Congratulations, all, and good luck in your future endeavors!

Undergraduate Students

Evangeline Alva

Won Jeong Cho

Xiaxun Ding

Nelly Escobar

Patience Fetzer

Aaron Fleiss

Megan Harmon

Tyler Isaman

Jessica Lee

Josephine Lim

Annika Linde

Helen Park

Hui Ying

Graduate Students

Xiao He

Xiao has accepted a lectureship in Linguistics and Quantitative Methods at the University of Manchester.Xiao has accepted a lectureship in Linguistics and Quantitative Methods at the University of Manchester.David LiBen ParrellBen ParrellBen won a post-doctoral fellowship funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Research Service Award, which he will use to pursue postdoctoral research and additional training at the Department of Psychology at UC Berkeley. Ben has also accepted an Assistant Professorship at the University of Delaware’s Linguistics Department beginning in Fall 2015.Sergio Robles-PuenteSergio Robles-PuenteSergio has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Spanish Linguistics at the University of West Virginia.Sergio has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Spanish Linguistics at the University of West Virginia.Barbara TomaszeswiczBarbara TomaszeswiczBarbara was also recently awarded a very competitive NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for her research.Barbara was also recently awarded a very competitive NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for her research.Hector VelasquezHector has accepted a teaching position at his alma mater, Universidad Católica de Lima, Perú.