Congratulations to our Graduating Seniors
Post-graduation, Arushi Bhatia will be moving to California to work as a software engineer at Netflix. She is excited to take all the skills and wonderful experiences she has had as a Duke student double majoring in computer science and linguistics with her to California. She plans to eventually work in Natural Language Processing.
Post-graduation, Lindsay Dial intends to take a gap year while applying for graduate school, so that she can take some time for herself and explore her options while staying in the Triangle area with friends and family.
Katherine Horn will be graduating with a double major in Linguistics and Romance Studies, specializing in French and Spanish. After walking as part of the graduation ceremony this spring, she will be working in translation this summer at the Paris city hall, followed by defending her thesis, "Grammatical Gender Neutrality in French and Spanish: The Response of the Académie Française and the Real Academia Española," this August. She will be finishing her last semester by doing Duke in France in the fall.
After graduation, Kyra Lewis will begin a new journey in Atlanta, Georgia working as a Digital Media Marketing Coordinator, putting her linguistics knowledge to use in the Advertising industry.
Following graduation Maya Lytje will be moving to Boston where she will be working at the law firm Mintz and Levin for two years before matriculating at Harvard Law School.
Malini “Mal” Narula will be attending Georgetown Law School as part of the class of 2026, and hopes to work in international human rights in the future.
Damla Ozdemir is graduating with a B.A. in Linguistics and a minor in German. In her time at Duke, she participated in philosophy research with Project Vox, played in a quartet, went caving with the Outing Club, and took part in many more exciting activities. After graduation, she plans on returning to Turkey, her home country, for some time and then moving to Europe to work.
Sebastian Enrique Sanchez will be graduating with a B.S. in Neuroscience and a B.A. in Linguistics as well as a minor in Russian Language and Culture. During his time at Duke, he was a H. W. Bernard Trinity Merit Scholar, member of the Bass Connections research team Language, Music, and Dementia, and was President of the student organization he co-founded, Duke University Diabetics. After graduation, he will work as a research associate in the LaBar Lab at Duke's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience before attending medical school, where he hopes to eventually specialize in neurology.
Daniel Sutton is a graduating senior from Hamilton, Ohio. He has spent the last four years studying language at Duke with a special emphasis on the Italian language and culture. His thesis "Language and the Gendered Self: Unraveling the Framework of Gender in the Italian Language" received highest distinction and addresses the problematic nature of binary approaches to language education. Daniel will continue this passion for inclusive language practices as a Fulbright scholar in the Masters of Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, and Linguistics program at the University of Bologna after Duke.
Alexandria Swaine graduated in May of 2022 with degrees in Linguistics and Spanish, Latin American, and Latino/a Studies. During her gap year, she has been working with fMRI and dry EEG as the associate in research for the Andrews Neuro Lab and a collaborator of the Language, Music, and Dementia Bass Connections team.
In the fall, she is excited to combine her love for linguistics and medicine and begin her clinical doctorate in audiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While she may now be expected to wear Carolina blue, she will always wear Duke blue most proudly.
Katherine Wang is a graduating senior majoring in Neuroscience, minoring in Linguistics and Chemistry. After graduation, she will be working as a clinical research assistant at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. The research project will examine sensory systems in the brain to detect behavioral markers for Alzheimer’s disease. She hopes to attend medical school after her gap year.