New and recent majors in Linguistics!
We’ve had many wonderful new students declare the Linguistics major over the past couple of semesters. Here’s a chance to meet a few of them…if you see them in the hallways, please give them a warm hello!
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Emma Blanchette Kankakee, Illinois
“I love learning new languages as a way to explore and better appreciate the cultures that accompany them.”
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Isabelle Bright
Grafton, Wisconsin“I bake my brownies in a muffin tin so that every piece is an edge piece.”
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Ethan Frank
“I like languages, translation, and historical linguistics.”

Raquel Quevedo
Green Bay, Wisconsin
“I’m bilingual, I speak English and Spanish, I crochet and I rollerblade!”
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Preston Ruh
Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin“I enjoy learning languages, particularly Chinese, and driving my racecar!”