Our CLASP students have produced a number of distinctive MA theses and PhD dissertations under the direction of CLASP baby直播app. At the Master鈥檚 level, an MA thesis may be substituted for one of the four CLASP courses to fulfill the program requirements. Below is an abbreviated list of CLASP dissertations and theses.

Note: If you are a current or former CLASP student, we would like to add a citation for your dissertation or thesis to this page! Please send your information to the CLASP Director, Kira Hall, at聽kira.hall@colorado.edu.

PhD Dissertations

  • Khoo, Velda (2024). "Modeling Singlish: Authentic Hybridity in a Model Nation". Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.
  • Parish, Ayden (2024).聽鈥淗earing Voices as Atypical Social Agents鈥�.聽Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.
  • Tarren Andrews (2021). "Colonization is not a metaphor: Tracing the logics of settler colonialism back to the Early Medieval North Atlantic."聽Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.
  • Marielle Butters (2021). "Negation in four languages of Indonesia."聽Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.
  • Astrid N. Sambol铆n Morales (2021). "Puerto Rican m(other)work at the center: Everyday agency and resistance as a foundation for more inclusive educational spaces."聽School of Education, University of baby直播app.

  • Rich Sandoval (2016). 鈥淕esture-Speech Bimodalism in Arapaho Grammar: An Interactional Approach.鈥� Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.

  • Nicholas Williams (2016). 鈥淧lace reference and location formulation in Kula conversation.鈥� Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.

  • Hernandez, Jaclyn (2015). 鈥淧athways toward Proficiency: A case study of emerging bilingual students鈥� opportunities to learn academic language.鈥� School of Education, University of baby直播app.

  • Hughes, Jessica (2015). 鈥淣othing about autistics without autistics: A critical, action implicative discourse analysis of neurodiversity advocacy online.鈥� Department of Communication, University of baby直播app.

  • Sarris, Julia S. (2015). 鈥淩eturning to School: Changing聽Barriers and Baggage听迟辞听Assets and Advantages.鈥� School of Education, University of baby直播app.

  • Davis, Jennifer (2013). 鈥淟earning to 鈥楾alk Indian鈥�: Ethnolinguistic Identity and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance.鈥� Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.

  • Raclaw, Joshua (2013). 鈥淚ndexing Inferables and Organizational Shifts: 鈥楴o鈥�-prefaces in English Conversation.鈥� Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.

  • Stadlbauer, Susanne (2012). 鈥淒isplaced Islamic Identities: Language, Time, and Space in a Post 9/11 Islam.鈥� Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.

  • Zimman, Lal (2012). 鈥淰oices in Transition: Testosterone, Transmasculinity, and the Gendered Voice among Female-to-Male Transgender People.鈥� Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.

  • Lombas, Leith (2011). 鈥淚ndividualism in Action: An Investigation into the Lived Experiences of Peace Corps Volunteers.鈥� Department of Sociology, University of baby直播app.

  • Heintzelman, Lori (2009). 鈥淭he Re-education of Desire: The Role of Narrative in Religious-Based Sexual Identity Transformation.鈥� Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.

  • Nilep, Chad (2009). 鈥淎rticulating a Transnational Family: 鈥楬ippo Family鈥� Language Learners in Japan and the USA.鈥� Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.

  • Weldeyesus, Weldu (2009). 鈥淟anguage Socialization and Ensuing Identity Construction among Ethiopian Immigrants in Metropolitan Denver.鈥� Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.

  • Hodges, Adam (2008). 鈥淭he 鈥榃ar on Terror鈥� Narrative: The (Inter)textual Construction and Contestation of Sociopolitical Reality.鈥� Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.

  • Merrill, John Bryce (2008). 鈥淢aking it, not Making it: Creating Music in Everyday Life.鈥� Department of Sociology, University of baby直播app.

  • Christof Demont-Heinrich (2005). 鈥淚nsularity in the Global Linguistic Center? American 鈥楶restige Press鈥� Discourses on English and Globalization in a Post Cold War World.鈥� Department of Journalism, University of baby直播app.

MA Theses

  • Jessee, Em. (2024). "The Cisgender Listening Subject in Sibiliant Perception."聽Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.聽

  • Stuart, Forest. (2024). "'I Think I鈥檓 Funniest When I鈥檓 my Most Autistic': Trans Autistic Absurdity in Intracommunity Humorous Interaction."聽Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.聽

  • Schlagenhauf, Alexis. (2023).聽"Digital Intimacy in ASMR Role-Play Videos."聽Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.聽

  • Rosenau, Sara. (2022). "Mock Koreaboo: Appropriating Appropriation."聽Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.聽

  • Thomas, Kahlil B.聽(2018). 鈥�'The toughest one we can find': Thug personae and meaning across the boundary of ethnicity."聽Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.聽

  • Hirschey, Olivia. (2017).聽 Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.

  • LaPointe, Alyssa R. (2015). 鈥淥n aspects of social interaction, a pair of autistic twins, and their humanness.鈥� Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.

  • Manietta, Joseph (Bazil) (2015). 鈥淭ranslational Masculinities: The distributive performativity of gender in Korean boy bands.鈥� Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.

  • Griffith, Keri. (2014). 鈥淗eteronormative Script and Social Injustice Narratives: Lesbian and Gay Argumentation Strategies in Civil Union Hearings.鈥� Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.

  • James, Solange Anduze (2014). 鈥淭rinidad English Creole: A Semiotic Marker of Caribbean Postmodern Identity.鈥� Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.

  • Wagner, Irina (2014). 鈥淟anguage Revitalization on the Web: Technologies and Ideologies among the Northern Arapaho.鈥� Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.

  • Faracini, Elizabeth (2013). 鈥淐aipira Dialect Stylization in Brazilian Telenovelas: A Sociocultural Investigation of Language Ideologies.鈥� Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.

  • Buchner, Alexander (2012). 鈥淟aboratory Stylization of 鈥楪ay Speech鈥�: Exploring Experimental Methodologies as a Tool for Sociocultural Linguistic Analysis.鈥� Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.

  • Kolberg, Iris (2012). 鈥溾�榃hat are you doing?鈥�: How Improvisational Actors Use the Body in the Contextualization of the Imagined Material World.鈥� Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.

  • Mells, Brandon (2012). 鈥淢embership Categories through Action: An Analysis of the Contested Morality of a Checkpoint Stop.鈥� Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.

  • Balder, Sara (2005). 鈥淟anguage, Heterosexism, and Identity: Normative Chilean Discursive Practices.鈥� Department of Linguistics, University of baby直播app.