Associate Dean, College of Arts and Letters & Professor
Year Started at JMU: 2022
childsrl@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. (Linguistics), University of Georgia, 2005
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
M.A. (English: Sociolinguistics Track), North Carolina State University, 2000
Title of Thesis: A Hyde County Clusterfest: Consonant Cluster Reduction in a
Historically Isolated African American Community
Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute in Linguistics, University of Illinois, 1999
B.A. (Major: English; Minor:TESL), University of Florida, 1997
Specialization
Sociolinguistics, Language Variation and Change
