Becky Childs, Department Head 

Specialization: Sociolinguistics, Language and Identity, Language and Gender, Southern English, African American English, Appalachian English

Education:

• 2005 PhD (Linguistics), University of Georgia
  Title of Dissertation: Investigating the Local Construction of Identity:
  Sociophonetic Variation in Smoky Mountain African American Women’s Speech
  Areas of Focus: Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, Phonology
• 2000 MA (English: Sociolinguistics Track), North Carolina State University
  Title of Thesis: A Hyde County Clusterfest: Consonant Cluster Reduction in a
  Historically Isolated African American Community
• 1999 Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute in Linguistics, University of Illinois
• 1997 BA (Major: English; Minor:TESL), University of Florida

Dr. Childs' curriculum vitae