Dr. Kevin Samejon
- English, Assistant Professor
General Information
Biography
Hi! I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), where I teach and conduct research in linguistics. My research focuses on sociolinguistics, phonetics-phonology, language variation and change, World Englishes, and multilingualism. I also direct UNO’s Sociolinguistics & Language Structures Lab (SoLaS Lab), where we investigate how social factors such as community, identity, contact, and context shape language use and how language structures vary across speakers and communities. This work includes research on English spoken in Omaha. (Languages: Cebuano, Tagalog, Hiligaynon, English, French).
Teaching Interests
I am particularly excited about teaching courses in sociolinguistics and in structural and crosslinguistic analysis, particularly on the articulation and acoustics of speech, that invite students to think about how social, linguistic, and contact-related factors shape language use within and across communities.
Research Interests
My research combines fieldwork and laboratory methods to study social and linguistic variation, language contact, and the sound patterns of English across communities. It spans sociophonetics, crosslinguistic comparison, bi- and multilingualism, and World Englishes, and is guided by an interest in helping expand and consolidate linguistics research in Nebraska and the greater Midwest as the region continues to grow in multilingual and linguistic diversity.
Service Summary
Outside of my role at UNO, I strive to support communities both here and abroad. I offer free lectures on English research at local universities in the Philippines and volunteer with Lumiere, teaching linguistics and mentoring low-income pre-university students from around the globe. I previously collaborated with SIL International on a language survey of understudied diaspora languages in the U.S. and continue to serve as a reviewer for the Philippine Journal of Linguistics.
Education
Ph D, Boston University, Boston, MA, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Acoustic Phonetics, 2025
MA, Boston University, Boston, MA, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Acoustic Phonetics, 2022
MA, Biola University, La Mirada, CA, Applied Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, 2017
BA, Mindanao State University, Gen. Santos City, Philippines, English, Language, 2013
Licensures and Certifications
Teaching English as Foreign Language, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education - University of Toronto , 12/09/2014