PhD Students

Dissertation committee member for:

• Alessia Cherici (PhD, Chinese, in progress)
• Misato Hiaraga (PhD, Computational Linguistics, in progress)
• Ryan Lidster (PhD, Second Language Studies, 2023)
• John Rothgerber (PhD, Second Language Studies, 2019)

Advisory committee member for:

• Alessia Cherici (PhD, Chinese, in progress)
• Xiao Dong (PhD, Chinese, in progress)
• Zeping Liu (PhD, Chinese, in progress)

MA Students

• Jillian Clark (MA, Japanese, in progress)
• Miku Fukasaku (MA, Japanese Language Pedagogy, 2023). Pedagogy project: Fostering Global Competence by language learning: Corporate culture in Japan. Now an Associate Instructional Professor in Japanese Language at the University of Chicago.
• Yumemi Hanaki (MA, Japanese Language Pedagogy, in progress)
• Akira Kanaya (MA, Japanese Language Pedagogy, 2023). Pedagogy project: Teaching conditionals in an elementary school JSL curriculum: In fourth grade science and social studies.
• Haruna Kyomoto (MA, Japanese Language Pedagogy, in progress)
• Yu Murakami (MA, Japanese Language Pedagogy, in progress)
• Alan Reiser (MA, Japanese Language Pedagogy, 2022). Pedagogy project: Japanese pitch accent pedagogy: Considerations of pitch accent pedagogy and resources for teaching pitch accent in Japanese as a Foreign Language classrooms. Concurrently pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature.
• Lai Jiang (MA, Japanese Language Pedagogy, 2021). Pedagogy project: Explicit training on semantic roles as a tool to teach Japanese passive. Now a Japanese lecturer at Case Western Reserve University.
• Aya Tozawa (MA, Japanese Language Pedagogy, in progress)

MA essay/project reader for:

• Evan Bracken (MA, Japanese Language Pedagogy, 2017)
• Pai Chun Shih (MA, Chinese Language Pedagogy, in progress)
• Nozomi Imai (MA, Japanese Language Pedagogy, 2019). Now a Japanese lecturer at Vanderbilt University.
• Madison Luken (MA, Japanese Language Pedagogy, 2022)
• Chun Hau Ngai (MA, East Asian Studies, 2023)