Sebastián Mancha is a PhD student in Linguistics. Sebastián is interested in psycholinguistic and neural models of syntactic representation.

Utku Turk is a PhD student in Linguistics. Utku is interested in psycholinguistic models of syntax and semantics/pragmatics.

London Dixon is a PhD student in Linguistics. London is interested in psycholinguistic and neural models of syntactic representation, and in grammatical representation in the context of language attrition.

Clara Cuonzo is a PhD student in Linguistics. Clara is exploring the impact of non-lexicalist syntactic theories on psycholinguistic and neural models of the mapping from phonological to syntactic structure

Xinchi Yu is a PhD student in NACS. Xinchi is interested in developing neurocognitive models of event representation and argument structure that can extend across input modalities.

Alex Krauska is a PhD student in Linguistics. Alex is showing why it REALLY matters for psychological and neural theories of language that the primitives of natural spoken language are not ‘words’.

Craig Thorburn is a PhD student in Linguistics. Craig is interested in developing computational models of speech perception and its neural bases, and is co-advised with Naomi Feldman.

Mike McCourt was a PhD student in Philosophy. He’s still teaching and lecturing at UMD and surrounding institutions.

Mina Hirzel was a PhD student in Linguistics. She’s now a language engineer at Amazon.

Chia-Hsuan Liao was a PhD student in Linguistics. She’s now an Assistant Professor at National Tsinghua University.

Phoebe Gaston was a PhD student in Linguistics. She’s now a postdoc at the University of Connecticut.

Aura Cruz Heredia was a Baggett Fellow and MEG lab manager in Linguistics. She is now doing a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania.

Anna Namyst was our long-time research assistant and MEG lab manager. She is still in the area but now manages EEG and MEG labs at the National Institutes and Health.

Eric Pelzl former PhD student in Second Language Acquisition, now an NSF PIRE postdoctoral fellow at Penn State.

Nur Basak Karatas former PhD student in Second Language Acquisition.

Zoe Schlueter – former PhD student, went on to postdoc at the University of Edinburgh.

Jeff Green– former PhD student, now an Assistant Professor at Brigham Young University

William Matchin – former neurosyntax postdoc, now an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina

Sol Lago – former PhD student, now an Assistant Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt

Wing Yee Chow – former PhD student, now a Lecturer in Experimental Linguistics at University College London (UCL)

Natalia Lapinskaya – former MEG lab manager, went on to master’s degree at McMaster University

Elizabeth Nguyen – former MEG lab manager, went on to PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati.

Bethany Dickerson – former Baggett Fellow, now a PhD student at the University of Massachusetts

Jon Burnsky – former research assistant, now a PhD student at the University of Massachusetts

Allison Fogel  – former research assistant, went on to a PhD in Cognitive Psychology at Tufts University.

Amina Iro  – Eleanor Roosevelt High School intern, went on to the University of Wisconsin.

Uchenna Uzomah – Eleanor Roosevelt High School intern, went on to the University of North Carolina.