Jesse L. Rosenberger Work-In-Progress Seminar Series: Maya Abtahian

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Maya Abtahian (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of Linguistics

Director of Graduate Studies

Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab

PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2009

Professor Maya Ravindranath Abtahian joined the Department of Linguistics in September 2015. She graduated with her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. Her dissertation, Language Shift and the Speech Community: Sociolinguistic Change in a Garifuna Community in Belize, was advised by Gillian Sankoff (Chair), David Embick (Chair), and William Labov. Prior to coming to Rochester, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of New Hampshire. Prof. Abtahian works on language variation and change in the context of language shift and other social changes.