Harvard Graduate Students in Linguistics (HGSL)

The Harvard Graduate Students in Linguistics (HGSL) committee is dedicated to the goal of enhancing the overall experience of graduate students in the department. Recent projects include:

  • Graduate Student Workshop: an annual one-day conference held in the Spring semester in which graduate students from our department can present their ongoing research projects to peers and faculty. This workshop is organized by graduate students, including Yuxuan (Melody) Wang and Nofar Rimon.
  • Trivia, pub, and board game nights for faculty and students.
  • Annual Spring picnic: a graduate-student-only event for students in Linguistics and affiliated departments including Celtic Studies, Classics, Art History, and others.
  • Fall/Spring department party: a fun and exciting event each semester for the entire department. Recent themes include the Spring 2024 Subfield/Goodbye Jim party and the Fall 2024 Halloween party. See pictures below :).

Committee Member:

Hrefna Svavarsdóttir

Department Halloween party 2024

Costumed Graduate Students

From left to right: Hayley Ross (as black cat), Yiqian (Alexis) Wang (as skeleton), Jane Loney (as jack-o'-lantern), Hrefna Svavarsdottir (as elf), Nofar Rimon (as witch), Baoqing Qian and Jack Rabinovitch (as Ellie Sattler and Alan Grant from Jurassic Park) with son Ori (as baby dinosaur), Ankana Saha (as Natasha Thalluri), Nayantar Das (as Ankana Saha), Natasha Thalluri (as Nayantara Das), Xiaotian (Alice) Wang (as Kuromi), Jian Cui, Anabelle Caso (as proto-form), Daria (Dasha) Bikina (as Dora the Explorer) with dog Yosi (as Boots). 

Photo by Melody Wang :)

Costumed Faculty

From left to right: Jesse Snedeker (as valkyrie), Jonathan Bobaljik (as small clause), Kaden Holladay (as clock rhymer), Kevin Ryan (as umlaut *Winner of Costume Contest*), Tanya Bondarenko (as evidentiality), Vincent Rouillard (as Sonic the Hedgehog), Robert Xu (as bug). 

Department Subfield/Goodbye Jim party

Department Subfield Party

Back (from left to right): Nofar Rimon, Kate Davidson, Jonathan Bobaljik, Hayley Ross, Jacob Kodner, Yağmur Sağ, Yiyang Guo, Aljoša Milenković, Gennaro Chierchia, Kevin Ryan, Jack Rabinovitch, Baoqing Qian

Front (from left to right): Yuxuan (Melody) Wang, Cathy Zhang, Xiaotian (Alice) Wang, Daria (Dasha) Bikina, Nayantara Das, Hande Sevgi, Yi-Chi (Yvette) Wu, Yuhan (Claire) Zhang, Jae Heon (James) Lee, Natasha Thalluri, Eliana Spradling

Faculty as bugs

From left to right: Bug Kate Davidson, Bug Jonathan Bobaljik, Bug Kevin Ryan, Bug Gennaro Chierchia, Bug C-T James (Jim) Huang. Not pictured: Bug Jay Jasanoff, Bug Jeremy Rau, Bug Tanya Bondarenko, Bug Katie Franich

Photos by Anabelle Caso :)

Graduate Student Workshop 2024

Graduate Student Workshop 2024

Standing (from left to right): Xiaotian (Alice) Wang, Yuxuan (Melody) Wang, Daria (Dasha) Bikina, Katie Franich, Kevin Ryan, Gennaro Chierchia, Tanya Bondarenko, Hayley Ross, Yağmur Sağ, Hande Sevgi, Natasha Thalluri

Seated (from left to right): Jae Heon (James) Lee, Jack Rabinovitch, Anabelle Caso, Kate Davidson, Ankana Saha

Front: Yi-Chi (Yvette) Wu