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Lab alumni

Researchers who completed graduate work in the lab and have taken their questions into new settings.

Dawson Petersen

Dawson Petersen

PhD, Linguistics · Now at Georgetown University

Dawson completed his PhD in 2025, investigating anthropomorphism in language and thought. He is now a postdoctoral Fritz Fellow in Linguistics and Computer Science at Georgetown University.

Ruhan Çoban

MA alumna · Now a PhD student at the University of Memphis

Ruhan completed her MA work in the lab. Her research examines common ground and verbal irony.

Veena Nair

Psychology

Professor, Radiology and Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Sara Peters

Psychology

Teaching Professor and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina.

Carlos Gelormini-Lezama

Linguistics

Faculty member at Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina.

Wei Cheng

Linguistics

Faculty member, College of Foreign Studies, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

Jefferson Maia

MA, Linguistics

Works at Amazon.

Shinichi Shoji

Linguistics

Lecturer at Mie University, Japan.

Peter Nelson

Linguistics

Research with the lab examined animacy and verb type in language comprehension.

Kanan Luce

Linguistics

Works for the US government.

Jon Rann

Psychology

Works for the US Department of Energy.

Cameron Smith

MA, Psychology

Data scientist.