Studying linguistics can help prepare you for a career in a variety of different fields, including but not limited to: teaching, publishing, national security, international affairs, policy, forensics, medicine, and technology. A recent study found that the major with the fewest underemployed graduates was “Foreign Languages, Literature, and Linguistics.”
Find out more about how our graduates are using their linguistics degree.
Students in linguistics professor Elizabeth Kissling’s First Year Seminar "The Power and Prejudice of Language" presented their original research on perceptual dialectology at the School of Arts & Sciences Student Research Symposium.
Alongside University of Richmond’s Assistant Professor of Spanish, David Giancaspro, and Silvia Perez-Cortes, of Rutgers University–Camden, Higdon was the only undergraduate student to present a paper at the conference.
Taylor Arnold was promoted to professor of data science and statistics. Arnold’s research is fundamentally interdisciplinary and contributes to the fields of Digital Humanities (DH) and Cultural Analytics through his expertise as a mathematician and data scientist.
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Elizabeth Kissling, associate professor of Spanish and applied linguistics, published “Can Concept-based Language Instruction Change Beginning Learners’ Aspectual Development?: Preliminary Experimental Evidence that Novice Learners Taught Boundedness Are Less Influenced by Lexical Aspect” in Jalda.
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Taylor Arnold, associate professor of statistics, along with Elizabeth Kissling, associate professor of Spanish and applied linguistics, published the article "Preliminary Evidence that Applied Cognitive Linguistics is Effective for Novice Learners Regardless of their Individual Differences" in Language Teaching Research.
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Matthew Lowder, associate professor of psychology, published "Emotionality Effects in Korean Visual Word Recognition: Evidence from Lab-Based and Web-Based Lexical Decision Tasks" in Acta Psychologica.
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