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Linguistics
In its the Linguistics program awards Honors or No Honors (as of 2016) to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.
Key:
- Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
Committee Chair + Other Committee Members
2024-2025
- Carolyn Marie Bonafede, (Honors)
Anya Hogoboom + Meg Gotowski, Sadhwi Srinivas, Lisa Landino
- Lulu Griffin, (Honors)
Anya Hogoboom + Kate Harrigan, Sadhwi Srinivas, Deenesh Sohoni
- Anya Eleni Roberts-Tsoukkas, (Honors)
Sadhwi Srinivas + Leslie Cochrane, Rachel Varra, Lori Jacobson
- Emma Marie Wilkie, (Honors)
Kate Harrigan + Sadhwi Srinivas, Meg Gotowski, Janice Zeman
- Chloe Spencer Wright, (Honors)
Kate Harrigan + Sadhwi Srinivas, Meg Gotowski, Lori Jacobson
2023-2024
- John Joseph Babbitts III, (Honors)
Jack B. Martin + Rachel Varra, Alexander Angelov
- Amanda Christina Beyer, (Honors)
Kate Harrigan + Shinji Shimoura, Sadhwi Srinivas, Anya Hogoboom
- Nicole Marie Eubanks, (Honors)
Kate Harrigan + Leslie Cochrane, Anya Hogoboom, Jeremy Pope
- Rowan Soo Levick, (Honors)
Kate Harrigan + Anya Hogoboom, Sadhwi Srinivas, Katherine Barko-Alva
- Joseph Barrett Lorber, (Honors)
Anya Hogoboom + Kate Harrigan, Sadhwi Srinivas, Abbie Cathcart
- Megha Vasudevan, (Honors)
Iyabo Osiapem + Leslie Cochrane, Sadhwi Srinivas, Francesca Sawaya
- Val Willham, (Honors)
Anya Hogoboom + Iyabo Osiapem, Leslie Cochrane, Aiko Kitamura
2022-2023
- Grace Liscomb, "" (Honors)
Iyabo Osiapem + Rachel Varra, Leslie Cochrane, Adela Amaral
- Alexia Brickelle Wheeler, "" (Honors)
Anya Hogoboom + Leslie Cochrane, Kate Harrigan, Jon Pineda
- Ruoqing Yao, "" (Honors)
Anya Hogoboom + Kate Harrigan, Jack Martin, Christopher Ball
2021-2022
- Alice Benjamin, "" (Honors)
Kaitlyn Harrigan + Brian Rabinovitz, Talbot Taylor, Jack Martin - Lexie Wu , "" (Honors)
Talbot Taylor + Josh Gert, Leslie Cochrane, Rachel Varra - McKinley Sprinkle, "" (Honors)
Anya Hogoboom + Daniel Parker, Kaitlyn Harrigan, Erin Webster
2020-2021
- Abram Clear, "" (Honors)
Anya Hogoboom + Kate Harrigan, Leslie Cochrane, Adela Amaral - Abigail Fergus, "" (Honors)
Kate Harrigan + Anya Hogoboom, Dan Parker, Brian Rabinovitz - Elizabeth Maneval, "" (Honors)
Anya Hogoboom + Kaitlyn Harrigan, Daniel Parker, Zach Conrad - Celia Metzger, "" (Honors)
Anya Hogoboom + Leslie Cochrane, Kaitlyn Harrigan, Elena Prokhorova - Tristan Ramage, "" (Honors)
Daniel Parker + Talbot Taylor, John Eisele - Madeleine Wade, "" (Honors)
Daniel Parker + Kaitlyn Harrigan, Anya Hogoboom, Robert Barnet - Krista Wink, "" (Honors)
Iyabo F. Osiapem + Leslie Cochrane, Kaitlyn Harrigan, Thomas J. Linneman
2019-2020
- Zeal An, "" (Honors)
Daniel Parker + Anya Lunden, Kate Harrigan - Cassandra Davenport, "" (Honors)
Daniel Parker + Leslie Cochrane, Elizabeth Losh, Kate Harrigan - Alyssa Grzesiak, "" (Honors)
Rachel Varra + Anya Lunden, Kate Harrigan, Meghan Miller - Rebecca Smyder, "" (Honors)
Kaitlyn Harrigan + Randi Moore, Meghan Miller, Anya Lunden
2018-19
- Daniil Eliseev, "Identity Among Barbadian University Students and Their Attitudes to Migrant Labor" (Honors)
Iyabo Osiapem + Adela Amaral, Leslie Cochrane, Anya Lunden - Kate Sandberg, "" (Honors)
Leslie Cochrane + Iyabo Osiapem, Tolly Taylor, Brad Weiss - Megan Rouch, "" (Honors)
Anya Lunden + Kate Harrigan, Dan Parker, Brian Castleberry
2017-18
- Jessica Campbell, "" (Honors)
Anya Lunden + Leslie Cochrane, Kaitlyn Harrigan, Jonathan Arries
2016-17
- Alexa Rosalsky, "" (Honors)
Anya Lunden + Daniel Parker, Jack Martin, Peter Vishton - Quentin Ullrich, "" (Honors)
Daniel Parker + Leslie Cochrane, Laura Heymann, Jack Martin
2015-16
- Sarah Frederick, "" (Honors)
Jack Martin + Kathleen Bragdon, Iyabo Osiapem, Anne Rasmussen - Robert LaRose, "" (Honors)
Daniel Parker + Anya Lunden, Jack Martin, Brian Hulse - Anderson Richardson, "" (Honors)
Iyabo Osiapem + Kathleen Boyle, Leslie Cochrane, Jack Martin
2014-15
- No Honors students this year
2013-14
- Rachel Brooks, (Honors)
Anne Charity Hudley + Jeremy Stoddard, Christopher Howard - Mirva Johnson, (High Honors)
Anya Lunden + Jack Martin, Nicholas Popper - Jeffrey Ngare, (Honors)
S.L. Anya Lunden + Jack Martin, Peng Yu - Benjamin Weissman, (Highest Honors)
Iyabo Osiapem + Leslie Cochrane, Jeremy Pope
2012-13
- Elizabeth DeBusk, "Evaluation of the Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening in Appalachian Virginia" (Highest Honors)
Anne Charity-Hudley +Ann Reed, C. Denice Johnson - Laura Faircloth, (Highest Honors)
Erin Ament + Anya Lunden, John Eisele - Kiara Savage, (Honors)
Anne Charity-Hudley + Erin Ament, Janice Zeman
2011-12
- Kenay Sudler, "" (High Honors)
Anne Charity-Hudley + Erin Ament, Cheryl Dickter - Rachel Tatman, "" (Honors)
Erin Ament + Christopher Ball, Linda Lanz
2010-11
- Christopher Hart-Moynihan, "Switch-Reference and Case-Marketing in Koasati Discourse" (High Honors)
Jack Martin + Ann Reed, Kathleen Bragdon-Brown - Erica Shifflett, (Honors)
Chadia Mansour + John Eisele, Erin Ament
2009-10
- Nicholas Deschenes, "Transparency, specification, and inventory asymmetry: Issues in Finnish vowel harmony" (High Honors)
Anya Lunden + Jack Martin, David Phillips - Mary Henin, (Honors)
Jonathan Arries + Ann Reed, Anne Harper Charity Hudley, Kelly Whalon - Joseph Kessler, (High Honors)
Talbot Taylor + Barbara King, Ann Reed - Daniel Villarreal, (Highest Honors)
Anne Charity Hudley + Talbot Taylor, Chi-Kwong Li
2008-09
- No Honors students this year
2007-08
- Melissa Devane, "The Syntax and Semantics of Tongan Noun Phrases" (Honors)
Jack Martin + Ann Reed, Kathleen Bragdon - Jennifer Wilson, "Linguistic Clues: The Foreign
Lanugage Learner's Use of Sortal Classifiers and Morphological Cues in Mandarin Chinese" (High Honors)
Ann Reed + Katherine Kulick, Xiao Want
2006-07
- Hannah Askin, "Helping Teachers to Understand and Address Dialect Variations in the Classroom: A Website About African American English" (Highest Honors)
Anne Charity + Ken Lacy, Kelly Whalon - Mackenzie Fama, "Talking Southern in Virginia: Investigating the Presence of /ay/ Monophthongization" (High Honors)
Anne Charity + Arthur Knight, Ann Reed - Randi Tucker, "Encoding Motion Events in Tagalog" (Honors)
Ann Reed + Georgia Irby-Massey, Jack Martin
2004-05
- Emerson Odango, "A Synthesized Analysis of Sentential and Discourse Continuity of
Preposed Ang-Phrases in Tagalog Narrative Discourse" (Highest Honors)
Ann Reed + Jack Martin, Edgar Williams