# Graduate Students ## expand\_more [### Anabelle Caso ](/people/anabelle-caso) Graduate Student Research interests: Syntax-prosody interface, syntax, morphosyntax, historical linguistics, Indo-Iranian linguistics, sandhi phenomena ![Anabelle Caso](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/anabelle_caso_pic.jpg?itok=zvqBnqEK) [### Jian Cui ](/people/jian-cui-0) Graduate Student Research interests: Theoretical phonology, first language acquisition, tonology ![Jian Cui](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/jian_cui_photo.jpg?itok=f9qJQx5A) [### Nayantara Das ](/people/nayantara-das) Graduate Student Department Writing Fellow Graduate Student Union Representative Research interests: Semantics, philosophy of language and psycholinguistics ![Nayantara Das](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/nayantara_das_pic.jpeg?itok=daBh42DV) [### Hailang Jiang ](/people/hailang-jiang) Graduate Student Linguistics Colloquium Coordinator Research interests: Phonology, phonotactics, experimental and computational methods, learnability, phonology-phonetics/morphology interface ![Hailang Jiang ](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/hailang_jiang_pic.jpg?itok=8RBJSnTr) [### Jae Heon (James) Lee ](/people/james-lee) Graduate Student Department Librarian Research interests: Syntax, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language ![James Lee](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/james_lee_photo.jpg?itok=2iySrgmW) [### Jane Loney ](/people/jane-loney) Graduate Student Graduate Student Union Representative Research interests: Syntax, morphology, fieldwork, Bantu linguistics ![Jane Loney](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/jane_loney_photo.jpeg?itok=Rxe1bviC) [### Aljoša Milenković ](/people/aljo%C5%A1a-milenkovi%C4%87) Graduate Student Research interests: Phonology, phonetics, historical linguistics, metrics, dialectology, computational linguistics, Corpus linguistics, syntax ![Aljosa Milenkovic](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/aljosa_pic.jpg?itok=NgWQl3rg) [### Nicholas Mori ](/people/nicholas-mori) Graduate Student Linguistics Colloquium Coordinator Research interests: Phonology, Bantu languages, fieldwork, phonetics, historical linguistics, language documentation. ![Nicholas Mori](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/Nicholas%20Mori%20photo.jpg?itok=Nu6k64lz) [### Jack Rabinovitch ](/people/jack-rabinovitch) Graduate Student Research interests: Syntax, phonology, Chinese linguistics, word order typology, Manchu ![Jack Rabinovitch](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/jack_rabinovitch_pic.jpg?itok=HG0kr1mj) [### Ellora Rich ](/people/ellora-rich) Graduate Student Spell-Out Blog and Social Media Coordinator Harvard Graduate Students in Linguistics Coordinator Research interests: H istorical linguistics, Germanic languages, Indo-European languages and culture, and writing systems and paleography ![Ellora Rich](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/Ellora%20Rich_0.jpeg?h=7547e43f&itok=nHMRWEvt) [### Nofar Rimon ](/people/nofar-rimon) Graduate Student Assistant Head Tutor Graduate Student Workshop Coordinator GSAS Student Council Representative SNEWS Coordinator Research interests: Syntax, morphology and phonology ![Nofar Rimon](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/nofar_rimon_pic.jpeg?itok=q5p9879b) [### Hillary Small ](/people/hillary-small) Graduate Student Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop Coordinator Harvard Graduate Students in Linguistics Coordinator Research interests: Indo-European linguistics, historical linguistics, ancient Greek dialectology, phonology and morphology ![Hillary Small](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/Hillary%20Small%20photo.jpg?itok=o_9jEf0p) [### Hrefna Svavarsdóttir ](/people/hrefna-svavarsdottir) Graduate Student Harvard Graduate Students in Linguistics Coordinator ECO-5 Coordinator Research Interests: Syntax, morphosyntax, linguistic variation, Icelandic linguistics ![Hrefna Svasvarsdóttir](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-05/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-01%20at%202.20.10%20PM.png?itok=8sLOW-ye) [### Natasha Thalluri ](/people/natasha-thalluri) [natasha\_thalluri@g.harvard.edu](mailto:natasha_thalluri@g.harvard.edu)Graduate Student Research interests: Syntax-semantics interface, language typology, gesture semantics, pragmantics ![Natasha Thalluri](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/natasha_thalluri_pic.jpg?itok=HJGpitaF) [### Xiaotian (Alice) Wang ](/people/xiaotian-alice-wang) Graduate Student Graduate Student Representative Research interests: Phonetics, laboratory phonology, sound change and language contact ![Alice Wang ](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/alice_wang_pic.jpeg?itok=R9KZUy8-) [### Yiqian Wang ](/people/yiqian-alexis-wang) [yiqian\_wang@g.harvard.edu](mailto:yiqian_wang@g.harvard.edu)Graduate Student LangCog Coordinator Research interests: Semantics, pragmatics, language and cognition, philosophy of language ![Yiqian Wang](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/yiqian_wang_photo.jpg?itok=NCeKFnT9) [### Yuxuan (Melody) Wang ](/people/melody-wang) [yuxuan\_wang@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:yuxuan_wang@fas.harvard.edu)Graduate Student Research interests: Phonology, morphology, prosody, phonetics, philosophy of language ![Melody Wang](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/melody_wang_pic_0_0.png?itok=ffwqySy5) [### Yi-Chi (Yvette) Wu ](/people/yi-chi-wu) Graduate Student Research interests: Syntax, semantics, morphology, fieldwork ![Yvette Wu](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/linguistics/files/yvette_wu_pic.jpeg?itok=3AJ9Zi_f)