Unpacking and Confronting Linguistic Racism
North Dakota Ethics Institute | Learning the Language of Diversity and Meaningful Inclusion Program
Idaho Humanities Council | Boise State Language, Race, and Ethnicity Speaker Series
“Linguistic Profiling: Voice-Based Discrimination and Inequities in the Housing Market” (please email me for video access)
Language and Race
Guest lecture for Dr. Samantha Litty of European University Flensburg | Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
Kelly E. Wright and Rachel Elizabeth Weissler @ VLTx
Discussing our co-authored paper Craft, Wright, Weissler, and Queen (2020) "Language and Discrimination: Generating Meaning, Perceiving Identities, and Discriminating Outcomes" with hosts Katie Carmichael and Abby Walker at Virginia
Virginia Tech | 20 Oct. 2020
LSA Webinar: How to be a Linguist on Social Media
Linguistic Society of America | 16 Oct. 2020
Mini Lecture: How does a Bad Word become Bad?
For Dr. Rob Podesva at Stanford University | 06 Sept. 2020
Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Justice in the Writing Classroom
Presentation at Fordham University | Hosted by Annalise Wolf | 24 Sept. 2020
Linguistic Profiling: Passing for American Means Speaking Without and Accent
Inspirational Speaker Series | University of Kent
Linguistic Discrimination
A guest lecture for professor Nicholas Henricksen at the University of Michigan
Slurs
A guest lecture for professor Savithry Namboodiripad at the University of Michigan
Actors and Events: Racialized Semantic Intensity Over Time
A presentation at the third annual NARNiHS @ the KFLC Conference
Gender, Race, and Class
A guest lecture for professor Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson at Appalachian State University (Email me for video access)
Qualifying Research Report
A presentation in partial fulfillment of advancement to Candidacy
Inclusivity Pressures
Text of speech and slides from presentation linked
Presented as part of Black Becoming, a panel at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting 2020
Our Ears Are as Prejudiced as Our Eyes
A presentation on linguistic profiling for UMich Recruitment 2019
Measuring Change in Real and Apparent Time
A guest lecture for Dr. Ariana Bancu at Northeastern University
Lexical Racialization Examined Through Machine Learning
Presented as part of the Information Analysis and Retrieval Winter Seminar Series (2019)
Lexical Racialization Examined Through Machine Learning
A poster presented at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference in NYC, October 2019
Measuring Implicit Biases Through the Statistical Properties of Language
A pecha kucha presentation for the Historical Sociolinguistics Network, July 2019
Linguistic Discrimination
A guest lecture for Dr. Israel Sanz-Sanchez at Westchester University
Mellon Fellowship in Publicly-Engaged Humanities
21 June 2019 Ann Arbor District Library
HistLing
A Report from the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics
New Ways of Analyzing Variation 2018
Lexical Racialization Revealed through Machine Learning
Opportunity Hub Celebrate Workshop
A workshop on natural discrimination (categorical perception) and offensive discrimination in the workplace.
Chicago Linguistics Society 2018
You will find linked a poster and a presentation of this material.
Normed Speech Samples:
http://phonetics.as.uky.edu/sounds/baugh/Southern.wav
Five Minute Linguist LSA 2018
Five Minute Linguist is a live, judged competition for scientists to communicate their research to a general audience. My portion starts right at 30 minutes, but I encourage watching the entire video!
Linguistic Society of America 2018
Eye Tracking for Change: Investigating Institutionalized Racism through the Semantic Enregisterment of Racialized Adjectives
National Council for Black Studies 2018
Covert Segregation: Dialect Discrimination in the Housing Market