Wil A. Rankinen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director

Office Address: 500 Lafayette Ave. NE, 303D

Phone: (616) 331-5541

Email: [email protected]

Education:

• B.A., Michigan State University
• M.A., Indiana University
• Ph.D., Indiana University

Research Interests:

• Sociolinguistics; sociophonetics; speech science; language regard; geolinguistics
• Supporting undergraduate research:
  • The S4 Research Laboratory (current and past studies)
  • Honors and Independent Projects (current and past studies)

Teaching Interests:

• Phonetics
• Speech Science
• Sociophonetics

Other Interests:

• Life-long education, family-time, cooking, woodworking