Majors
Emily Peterson is a senior from Bayfield, Wisconsin. She has studied Spanish and also knows a little bit of Ojibwe from elementary school. In addition to studying linguistics, she is also a music minor and plays the piano and organ. In her free time, Emily likes baking cakes and swimming in Lake Superior.
Elisabeth (Lisa) Aultman is a junior from The East Bay, California, where extremely-->'hella'/___Adj, and 'planning to'-->'trana' /___V. Her other major is Japanese, a language she has studied since age twelve. She has a(n embarrassing) love of puns, not to mention unusual and excessive use of punctuation. Her dream is to write a descriptive grammar of baby-talk, or possibly 1337, and to speak every language ever spoken fluently.
Alison Hoyer is a second-year from Rochester, Minnesota. She has studied Spanish and German formally, but her true linguistic passion is Brazilian Portuguese, which she learned through immersion. At the moment, she is intrigued by historical linguistics and sociolinguistics, but also thoroughly enjoys writing random words in IPA rather than paying attention in other classes.
Robert Burris is a second-year from Phoenix, Arizona. He is a double-major in Hispanic Studies and Linguistics and has studied Spanish in Salamanca, Spain. He plans to study abroad in Spain during his junior year, and will focus the study of his majors on Hispanic linguistics. He is also taking French and plans to minor with the goal of becoming equally fluent as he is in Spanish and English.
Minors
Geoffrey Stueven is a senior from Helena, Montana, and an English Major. He has studied Japanese at Macalester, and still retains a surprising amount of French from high school. Geoffrey works for Macalester's radio station, WMCN, where he can ensure that the topic of linguistics never reaches the airwaves.
Evan Coles-Harris is a junior from South Pasadena, CA. Thus far, he has taken "Intro to Linguistics" and "Advertising & Propaganda". His favorite branches of linguistics at this point are phonetics and morphology. He will study abroad in China next year (fall '08 and spring '09), and plans on conducting some sort of linguistics experiment while there.
Alumni
Stephanie Farmer '08 is from Phoenix, Arizona. She has studied Albanian in Tiranė, and helped put together an English-Khmer dictionary.
Courtney Rivers '08 is from western Oklahoma. She has studied French and Russian, but in terms of linguistics, is very interested in African languages, especially those of West Africa. She is also a Psychology minor and has fearlessly become the first to follow the cognitive track now offered at Macalester. She also enjoys singing, listening, dancing to, and living a life of jazz.
Eric Weisser '08 is from St. Louis, Missouri. He has studied German and a little bit of Finnish, and has made a website about Ket, a Siberian language. Eric plans to minor in German Studies and Mathematics. He is particularly interested in endangered languages and sociolinguistics.
Samantha Ross '07 is from Hillsdale, New Jersey, where they say "arnj" instead of "orange", and "Flahrida" instead of "Florida". She is a Hispanic Studies Major, and has studied Spanish, Portuguese, and some Catalan (figuring that once she linguistically conquers the Iberian Peninsula, the rest of the world will be hers soon enough!). Sam loves traveling, random bits of trivia, and bilabial fricatives.