Marissa Fond

Marissa Fond is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Georgetown University, specializing in applied sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and medical humanities. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Linguistics from Georgetown University and a B.A. in Linguistics from Smith College. Her research focuses on knowledge, beliefs, emotions in language, metaphor framing, health communication, and qualitative methods.

Previously, she served as a Research Sociolinguist at the U.S. Census Bureau and as Assistant Director of Research and Senior Researcher at the FrameWorks Institute, a MacArthur Award-winning non-profit. She is also an independent consultant for social science research, healthcare communication, and academic/government sectors.

Teaching roles include positions at Georgetown University, University of Maryland, and Truman State University, where she instructed courses on discourse analysis, metaphor framing, language and health, and sociolinguistics.

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