معرفی
Sabriya Fisher serves as the Diana Chapman Walsh Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Wellesley College, with cross-departmental affiliations in Anthropology and Latin American Studies. She teaches foundational and advanced linguistics courses including Introduction to Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, and specialized seminars on Language Contact and American English Dialect Variation.
Her educational background includes:
- B.A. from SUNY at Binghamton
- M.S. from Université de Lyon
- Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Fisher's research centers on sociolinguistic variation within English dialects, particularly African American English and diaspora language varieties. Her NSF-funded dissertation analyzed syntactic change in Philadelphia's African American English negation system. Current projects investigate morphosyntactic patterns among Boston and Philadelphia high school students, examining intersections between linguistic behavior and educational experiences through fieldwork, corpus analysis, and experimental methods.
She actively contributes to academic communities as a member of the Linguistic Society of America, American Dialect Society, Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, and Caribbean Society for Linguistics.
Dr. Fisher directs Wellesley's Sociolinguistics Lab, providing undergraduate research mentorship opportunities. Her dissertation research received NSF grant support, and she maintains strong engagement with linguistic fieldwork methodologies and community-based research practices.
