During my fifth year at Indiana University, I spent much of my time conducting research.

This past year I have had the pleasure of serving as the Research Assistant to my dissertation co-chair, Prof. Monica Nesbitt, working with her on her NSF funded project which is creating a Phonological Atlas of African American Language.

In my role as lab manager for the Patterns and Trends in Sociolinguistic Norms lab, directed by my other dissertation co-chair, Prof. Jeffrey Lamontagne, I worked on a project examining prosodic cues that French speakers utilize in perception to test the so-called “stress-deafness” that is often (incorrectly) attributed to French speakers.

Regarding my own projects, my article on sociophonetic variation in Québécois French music has been accepted for publication with the Canadian Journal of Linguistics, and my project on rhotic variation in Haitian Creole, in collaboration with Prof. David Tézil, has been accepted (with revisions) with the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics.

I am also pleased to share that I will spend what will be the final year of my PhD on a Dissertation Completion Fellowship, a competitive fellowship given by the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University. While I already have drafts of half of my results chapters, I am excited to dedicate my time this coming year to journal articles and finishing my dissertation.