Associate Professor Dr. Katie Drager will be receiving the  Junior/Mid-Career Faculty Excellence in Scholarship & Research Award, presented by the College of Languages, Linguistics, & Literature. In addition to authoring or co-authoring eight published articles (and one forthcoming) from 2016, Dr. Drager has also published a book entitled Experimental Research Methods in Sociolinguistics with Bloomsbury this year; she has also previously published a book in 2015 entitled Linguistic variation, identity construction and cognition.  Dr. Drager has also won the College of LLL Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2012.

Congratulations!

As part of her award, she will be a plenary speaker at the LLL Conference on Saturday, April 7th. Her talk, entitled “Experience-based expectations affect speech perception,” will be at 4:30pm in the Sarimanok Room.