Peer Advisors
Linguistics Peer Advisors are current majors who are available to advise prospective and current students, and serve as a mentor and resource to undergraduates in the department. If you have questions about Linguistics courses, major or minor requirements, how to declare, or how to find a faculty advisor, contact one of our peer advisors!
Sylvia Gabriel
Email: sylviaga [at] stanford.edu (sylviaga[at]stanford[dot]edu)
Office Hours: by appointment
Sylvia is a senior from Ann Arbor, Michigan, majoring in Linguistics and minoring in Religious Studies. She is also completing an honors thesis in the Graduate School of Education on language learning motivation in multilingual environments and language as social capital using data she collected over the summer with German language learners in Morocco. Her primary academic interests lie at the intersections of linguistics, anthropology, education, and psychology, including such topics as multilingualism, translanguaging, linguistic policy, raciolinguistics, heritage languages, signed languages, and second language acquisition. Her main languages of interest are German, Bengali, Moroccan Arabic (Darija), American Sign Language, Urdu, and Tamil, which she speaks to varying degrees of (non)fluency. When she is not studying her vocabulary flashcards on Anki, you can find her dancing with Swingtime and video editing student films. She looks forward to chatting with you about the linguistics major/minor or any of the other topics mentioned here!
Nick Harvey
Email: nharvey [at] stanford.edu (mailto:nharvey[at]stanford[dot]edu)
Office Hours: by appointment
Nick is a junior majoring in Linguistics and Urban Studies. Nick’s primary interests in linguistics include language documentation, language revitalization, sociolinguistics (the intersection of linguistics with sociology), and psycholinguistics (the intersection of linguistics with psychology). He is keen to use linguistics in a public-facing way to address societal problems. In the Stanford Phonetics Lab, Nick is working on a research project examining the impact of linguistic biases on the way people interpret oral history interviews.
In his free time, among other things, you can find Nick trying different strategies to learn Abruzzese, one of the endangered indigenous languages of Italy and a heritage language of his. Nick looks forward to seeing you during his office hours, and is always excited to talk about linguistics!
Erin Ye
Email: erinye [at] stanford.edu (erinye[at]stanford[dot]edu)
Office Hours: by appointment
Erin Ye is a junior majoring in Linguistics and Data Science & Social Systems. She is interested in bilingualism, the impact of technology on language variation, and language education. In her free time, Erin enjoys writing for The Stanford Daily, broadcasting college athletics, and eating acai bowls.