Kasia to faculty at Delaware

Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science.

Congratulations to alum Kasia Hitczenko *19, who this year was appointed to the faculty of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware as Assistant Professor. 

At Maryland Kasia wrote a dissertation on "How to use context for phonetic learning and perception from naturalistic speech," supervised by Naomi, and defended to a committe of Bill, Jeff and OSU's Micha Elsner with HESP's Rochelle Newman representing the Dean. Her first position after graduation was a postdoc Northwestern University, where she studied speech and language in individuals at high-risk for developing a psychotic disorder like schizophrenia. She then moved had a second postdoc in Paris at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, in the Language Acquisition Across Cultures team with Alex Cristia, before becoming an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Computer Science at George Washington University in 2023. Now Kasia starts her life on the tenure track as a Blue Hen!