Our Mission
The mission of the Linguistics Student Society is to provide learning, research, and job-related opportunities for students taking LING or ELING classes. Our purpose is to construct activities that help these students learn more about Linguistics at the college and around the world. These will include activities that will be be fun and educationally enlightening.
This club will ensure the mission and purpose of the HCSC [Humanities College Student Council] because it will encourage the students to get involved in on-campus activities and will provide friendships with students in their same field of interest.
Maryn Perschon
LSS President
Hello! My name is Maryn Perschon, and I am an applied English Linguistics major with minors in Art History + Curatorial Studies and Professional Writing + Rhetoric. Within the linguistics department I enjoy working to de-stigmatize language varieties and work primarily with corpus-based methodology. I have a passion for investigating women's roles throughout the history of the English language, particularly as they relate to early manuscript and print history. Off campus I enjoy visiting quaint bookstores and developing the book hoarding tendencies of a dragon.
Eliza Whiting
LSS Officer
Eliza is a senior, majoring in Linguistics and Anthropology! She is especially interested in the overlap between language and culture. When not doing homework, you'll find her crafting: usually crochet or knitting, preferably amidst friends, and most likely while discussing books.
Jeff Parker
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Jeff Parker is a BYU alumnus who specializes in morphology and Slavic linguistics. He met his wife at BYU, has 4 kids, and loves the outdoors and making very large soap bubbles.
Past Events
2021-2022
