Karen McCleary ’14

15 December 2020

Email: mcclearks@gmail.com

Comps Title: Pardon my French: Loanword pronunciation and language prestige

Current Employment: Associate Director of Admissions at Barnard College

“Linguistics taught me so much about thinking analytically, persuasively using data, and looking past my expectations of how something should work to the reality of how it actually works. Even though it’s been a while since I’ve drawn a syntax tree, I use the skills I learned as a linguistics major all the time!”