Department of Linguistics
Our Alumni
2019 MA Student of Distinction Trevor Driscoll heads to MIT
Dean’s medalist becomes a linguistics professor across the globe
Dr. Jason Brown, Fresno State alum becomes a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He also engages in field work in Bougainville, the Solomon Islands.
Linguistics alumni
(in reversed chronological order of year of graduation)
MA in Linguistics (2022)
Ph.D. student, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, the Netherlands (2022 - present)
MA in Linguistics (2019)
Ph.D. student, MIT (2019 - present)
Pei Chen Chang
MA in Linguistics (2020)
Assistant Professor, Defense Language Institute (2020 - present)
Faris Najeeb Alotaibi
MA in Linguistics (2018)
Ph.D. student, George Mason University (2022 Fall - present)
Zahra Alzebaidi
MA in Linguistics (2017)
Ph.D. student, Cornell University (2018 Fall - present)
Brian Moran
BA in Linguistics (2016)
MA in Computational Linguistics, University of Washington (2018)
Strategy Linguist at Facebook (2019 - present)
Eiman Alenezy
MA in Linguistics (2015)
Ph.D. student, University of Southampton, UK (2021 - present)
Jie Deng
MA in Linguistics (2014)
Ph.D. student, University of Victoria, Canada (2016 - present)
MA in Linguistics/TESOL (2013)
Ph.D. student, University of Essex, UK (2013 - present)
MA in Linguistics (2013)
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Delaware (2013 - 2019)
Assisting Teaching Professor, Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science (RUCCS), (2019 - present)
BA in Linguistics (2012)
MA in Linguistics, University of Southern California (2014)
Ph.D. student, University of Southern California (2014 - present)
BA in Linguistics/TESOL (2012)
Ph.D. in Linguistics, SOAS, University of London, UK (2021)
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Fresno State (2022)
MA in Linguistics (2011)
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Southern California (2017)
Dissertation: Prosodic Recursion and Syntactic Cyclicity inside the Word
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Rochester (2017 - present)
Victoria Teliga
MA in Linguistics (2011)
Skills Advisor at British Council, London, UK (2015 - present)
Lena Vasilyeva
MA in Linguistics (2010)
Ph.D. in linguistics, University of Alberta, Canada (2016)
Denine Lutz
MA in Linguistics/TESOL (2010)
Faculty, University of Dundee, Scotland
Kaveeta Rios
BA in Linguistics/TESOL (2010)
Student Support Coordinator, Merced College
Nicolas Quintana
MA in Linguistics/TESOL (2010)
Tutorial Center Coordinator, South Center Palomar College (2017 - present)
Dasha Henderer
MA in Linguistics/TESOL (2009)
MA in Linguistics, University of Southern California (2013)
Artificial Intelligence Psychologist, AGI Innovations Inc, Los Angeles (2016 – present)
MA in Linguistics (2009)
Ph.D. in Linguistics, Stony Brook University (2018)
Dissertation: Ellipsis and Information Structure: Evidence from Persian
Post-doctoral research fellow, UCLA (2018 Fall - present)
Zulfiya Ismailova
MA in Linguistics/TESOL (2009)
Faculty, Oregon State University (2013 - present)
MA in Linguistics (2002)
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of British Columbia, Canada (2008)
Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Auckland, New Zealand (2009 – present)
Head of the Linguistics Society of New Zealand
MA in Linguistics/TESOL (1993)
Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and TESL, UCLA (2003)
Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Hajime Tanabe
MA in Linguistics (1993)
Director, Hokusei Gakuen Girls' Junior & Senior High School, Japan
Peter Petrucci
MA in Linguistics/TESOL
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Southern California (1993)
Senior Lecturer, Massey University, New Zealand
Teeni Matlock Website
B.A. in Liberal Studies, California State University, Fresno (1983)
M.A. in Linguistics, California State University, Fresno (1985)
Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz (2001)
Professor and McClatchy Chair in Communications
Cognitive & Information Sciences Program, School of Social Sciences, Humanities & Arts, University of California, Merced
MA in Linguistics (1982)
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (1995)
Professor emerita, California State University, Fresno
Professor emerita, University of Helsinki
MA in Linguistics (1976)
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley (1986)
Dissertation: Ellipsis in Discourse
Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
Geoff Gamble
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley (1975)
M.A. in Linguistics (with Distinction), California State University, Fresno (1971)
B.A. in English, Fresno State College (1965)
President Emeritus Montana State University
Gerald McMenamin
MA in Linguistics (1972)
Doctorado en Lingüística Hispánica, El Colegio de México (1978)
Professor Emeritus, California State University Fresno
Adjunct Faculty, Spanish Linguistics, University of Nevada Reno