Recent PhD program graduate Sonja Thoma has been working as a consultant and language coach on various projects in support of First Nations communities, and has now been interviewed about this work on the Language Sciences site. The conversation focuses in large part on job options for doctoral graduates beyond academia, but she also describes the sort of work she does, the challenges it presents, and how it relates to her graduate training. With her company, Linguistics in the Wild, she is also involved in a project about dyslexia. She graduated from the Ph.D. program in 2016 with a dissertation on discourse particles in Bavarian.
PhD program grad Sonja Thoma interviewed about her work with Indigenous languages
April 21, 2021
