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<div class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" size="3" class="">The candidate speakers are listed below. We're going to do ranked choice voting, so please send me your top three choices, in order, by next Friday June 5th.</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" size="3" class="">Annette D'Onofrio (Northwestern): She is a sociophonetician and early career scholar who works on sound changes in the Chicago area. Here is her website: <a href="http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~akd2621/" id="LPNoLP809905" class="">http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~akd2621/</a>.</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" size="3" class="">Jon Forrest (U. of Georgia): He is a sociolinguist and early career scholar who works on language variation and occupation in the American South. Here is his website: <a href="https://linguistics.uga.edu/directory/people/jon-forrest" id="LPNoLP114248" class="">https://linguistics.uga.edu/directory/people/jon-forrest</a>.</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" size="3" class="">Jessi Grieser (University of Tennessee Knoxville)  She does great work on AAE and is currently doing work on a historically black neighborhood in DC.  <a href="https://jessgrieser.wordpress.com/curriculum-vitae/" class="">https://jessgrieser.wordpress.com/curriculum-vitae/</a></font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" size="3" class="">Kira Hall (University of Colorado Boulder)  Prominent linguistic anthropologist known for her work on identity embodiment. <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/faculty/hall-kira/" class="">https://www.colorado.edu/faculty/hall-kira/</a></font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" size="3" class="">Sharese King (U. of Chicago): She is a sociophonetician and early career scholar who works on race-based and place-based language variation. Here is her website: <a href="https://linguistics.uchicago.edu/sharese-king" id="LPNoLP490560" class="">https://linguistics.uchicago.edu/sharese-king</a>.</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" size="3" class="">Sally McConnell-Ginet (Cornell University, Emerita) -  Semanticist well known for her work on the relationships between semantic change and social change and her collaborative work on language and
 gender with Penny Eckert. She's emerita, so may not be available, but we can ask. <a href="https://linguistics.cornell.edu/sally-mcconnell-ginet" class="">https://linguistics.cornell.edu/sally-mcconnell-ginet</a></font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" size="3" class="">Chris Montgomery (University of Sheffield) Perceptual dialectology and perception of variation. Has recently worked in real-time perception of variation. <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/english/people/academic-staff/chris-montgomery" class="">https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/english/people/academic-staff/chris-montgomery</a></font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" size="3" class="">Jennifer Nycz (Georgetown University) Sociophonetician interested in second dialect acquisition and accent and mobility. <a href="http://www.jennifernycz.com/" class="">http://www.jennifernycz.com/</a></font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" size="3" class="">Devyani Sharma (Queen Mary University of London) Sociolinguist known for her work on identity and variation, also more recently awareness and control of variation.   <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devyani_Sharma" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devyani_Sharma</a></font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" size="3" class="">Lal Zimman (University of California Santa Barbara)  Lal's currently doing work on views on trans* voices, trans* language activism and reform, and creating a corpus of trans* voices as well! (Is
 also apparently looking at creak collaboratively with others to look at how creak gets used in gender perception) Also Jr faculty according to his current web page. <a href="http://www.lalzimman.com/ZimmanCV.pdf" class="">http://www.lalzimman.com/ZimmanCV.pdf</a></font></div>
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