Brown faculty and students past and present were well-represented at the 2025 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting as well as the LSA's sister society, the American Dialect Society.

 

Scott AnderBois presented a joint talk with many co-authors including Hugo Lucitante '19 (currently a PhD student in Anthropology at UT San Antonio) titled "Developing infrastructure for sustainable community-engaged linguistics". Jaime Benheim delivered a talk at the ADS reporting on a project in collaboration with current undergrads Talia Sherman '26 and Luca Iallonardi '25 titled  "Representing Rhode Island: Lifespan change in the Senate". Wrapping things up on Sunday, Chaya Nove presented joint work with (recent colloquium speaker) Isaac Bleaman on "Using oral histories for sociolinguistic research". Finally, PhD student Bruno Ferenc Segedin presented with colleagues a tutorial on "Deep Language Learning: Modeling language from raw speech".

 

Beyond all the exciting presentations by current Brown faculty and students, it was great to catch up with alumni including Justin Bai '19 (Currently a Linguistics PhD student at the University of Colorado), Maksymilian Dąbkowski '19.5 (now a Linguistics PhD student at UC Berkeley), and Sue Kalt '81 (Faculty, Roxbury Community College). We also all got to catch up with recent visiting faculty member Meg Harvey (now at the College of William & Mary).