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I have a joint position across the and the at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ. I currently act as Chair of the Department of Linguistics. I advise many MA and PhD students in research areas relevant to sociocultural linguistics, such as linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and socially oriented discourse analysis. I also enjoy serving on the committees of students from other departments who consider language as a central analytic in their work.

My graduate students receive a broad education in the interdisciplinary field of sociocultural linguistics through courses offered both in the Department of Linguistics and in the interdisciplinary graduate certificate program , which supports teaching and research in the area of Culture, Language, and Social Practice. As can be seen in the titles of the PhD dissertations I have advised since arriving at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder, my students work on a diverse range of topics.

• Stephens, Myron (in progress). Gender and Sexuality in the Semiotics of Professional Wrestling.
• Henry, Jacob (in progress). Identification, Contestation, and Digitalization in Table-Top Role-Playing Game Interactions.
• Arnold-Murray, Kate (in progress). Swifties for Kamala: Affective Semiotics and Celebrity Capital in the Harris 2024 US Presidential Campaign.
• Kosse, Maureen (2025). Online White Nationalist Discourses.
• Parish, Ayden (2024). Hearing Voices as Atypical Social Agents.
• Khoo, Velda (2024). Modeling Singlish: Authentic Hybridity in a Model Nation.
• Avelar, Marcus (2019). Urban Spirits: Language, Race, and Modernity among Umbandistas in São Paulo, Brazil.
• Davis, Jennifer (2013). Learning to ‘Talk Indian’: Ethnolinguistic Identity and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance.
• Zimman, Lal (2012). Voices in Transition: Testosterone, Transmasculinity, and the Gendered Voice among Female-to-Male Transgender People.
• Stadlbauer, Susanne (2012). Displaced Islamic Identities: Language, Time, and Space in a Post 9/11 Islam.
• Heintzelman, Lori (2009). The Re-education of Desire: The Role of Narrative in Religious-based Sexual Identity Transformation.
• Nilep, Chad (2009). Articulating a Transnational Family: ‘Hippo Family’ Language Learners in Japan and the USA.
• Weldeyesus, Weldu (2009). Language Socialization and Ensuing Identity Construction among Ethiopian Immigrants in Metropolitan Denver.
• Hodges, Adam (2008). The ‘War on Terror’ Narrative: The (Inter)textual Construction and Contestation of Sociopolitical Reality. 

Although today’s job market is very competitive, I am pleased to report that my PhD students have taken jobs that include tenure track positions in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (Lal Zimman), the Department of Anthropology and the Program in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Jenny Davis), and the Institute of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Nagoya University, Japan (Chad Nilep). My students have also held prestigious teaching, research, and visiting appointments at institutions that include Carnegie Mellon University Qatar (Adam Hodges), Florida International University (Marcus Avelar), New York University (Velda Khoo), Penn State University (Maureen Kosse), Reed College (Lal Zimman), Stanford University (Adam Hodges, Lal Zimman), University of Wyoming (Suzanne Stadlbauer), Virginia Commonwealth University (Ayden Parish), and Yale University (Jenny Davis). Within the state of Colorado, my students have held faculty teaching positions at Colorado College (Kate Arnold-Murray), Community College of Denver (Weldu Weldeyesus), and Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ (Adam Hodges, Maureen Kosse).

MA and PhD students interested in sociocultural linguistics at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ will find additional resources, support, and friendly students in the interdisciplinary Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP) program. The program features 35 affiliated faculty members from 12 university departments. More information on the CLASP program can be found at the .