AAAL 2023: Conference Connections Mentors

We are pleased to offer our sincerest thanks to the many scholars who are serving as mentors for the 2023 Conference Connections program. Throughout the conference, these individuals will provide mentoring support to nearly 200 student and post-doc mentees. We appreciate the mentors' involvement in Conference Connections 2023 and their efforts to support the up-and-coming members of our AAAL community.


Ali Al-Hoorie, Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu
Abdullah Alamer, King Faisal University
Mahmoud Azaz, Univ of Arizona
Amanda Baker, University of Wollongong
Keira Ballantyne, Center for Applied Linguistics
Joe Barcroft, Washington University in St. Louis
Katie Bernstein, Arizona State University
Jessica Bradley, University of Sheffield
Melanie Carbine, University of Iowa
Lourdes Cardozo Gaibisso, Mississippi State University 
Virak Chan, Purdue University
Chris Chang-Bacon, University of Virginia
Bill Crawford, Northern Arizona University
Mary Jane Curry, University of Rochester
Jenna Cushing-Leubner, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
Reza Dalman, Northern Arizona University
Luciana de Oliveira, Virginia Commonwealth University
Wenhao Diao, The University of Arizona
Meagan Driver, Michigan State University
Patricia (Patsy) Duff, University of British Columbia
Mark Emerick, Muhlenberg College
Nelson Flores, University of Pennsylvania
Gavin Furukawa, Sophia University
Ondine Gage, CSU Monterey Bay, Ca
Angelica Galante, McGill University
Roger Gilabert, University of Barcelona
Betsy Gilliland, University of Hawaii Manoa
Bethany Gray, Iowa State University
Olga Griswold, California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, Dept. of English and Modern Languages
Rick Hallett, Northeastern Illinois University
Yawen Han, Southeast University, China
Yu Jung Han, University of Rochester
Linda Harklau, University of Georgia
Rena Helms-Park, University of Toronto
Joel Heng Hartse, Simon Fraser University
Sarah Hercula, Missouri University of Science and Technology
David Johnson, University of Iowa
Mark Johnson, East Carolina University
Sara Kangas, Lehigh University
Padmini Shankar Kankata, The English and Foreign Languages University
Yasko Kanno, Boston University
Matt Kessler, University of South Florida
Amanda Kibler, Oregon State University
Kathy Kim, Boston University
Brian King, University of Hong Kong
Kristopher Kyle, Linguistics Department, University of Oregon
Gavin Lamb, University of Oslo
Pia Lane, University of Oslo
Martha Lengeling, Universidad de Guanajuato
Shim Lew, University of West Florida
Kristina Lewis, Illinois State University
Kristen Lindahl, University of Texas at San Antonio
Jason Litzenberg, The Pennsylvania State University
Stephen Looney, Penn State
Wander Lowie, University of Groningen
Matt Lucas, Kansai University (Osaka, Japan)
Laura Mahalingappa, University of Maryland
Jeffrey Maloney, Brigham Young University - Hawaii
Jason Martel, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
Giselle Martinez Negrette, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Maureen Matarese, BMCC, City University of New York
Cory Mathieu, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
Paul Matsuda, Arizona State University
Jim McKinley, University College London
Paul McPherron, Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY)
Paula Mellom, University of Georgia
Silvia Melo-Pfeifer, University of Hamburg
Anna Mendoza, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Sarah Mercer, University of Graz
Tommaso Milani, The Pennsylvania State University
Elizabeth Miller, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Alyssia Miller De Rutte, Colorado State University
Rhia Moreno, Augusta University
Nina Moreno, University of South Carolina
William Morgan, West Virginia University
Charlie Nagle, The University of Texas at Austin
Naseh Nasrollahi Shahri, San Diego State University
Andrea Olinger, University of Louisville
Kate Paesani, University of Minnesota
Michał B. Paradowski, Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw
Gloria Park, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Niousha Pavia, Western University
Anne Pomerantz, University of Pennsylvania
Matthew Prior, Arizona State University
Kongji Qin, New York University
Tracy Quan, University of Colorado, Boulder
Andrea Revesz, University College London
Heath Rose, University of Oxford
Bernd Rüschoff, University Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Lisa Russell-Pinson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Maricel Santos, San Francisco State University
Mary Schleppegrell, University of Michigan
Sabrina Sembiante, Florida Atlantic University
Jeremie Seror, University of Ottawa
Bal Krishna Sharma, University of Idaho
Christine Shea, University of Iowa
Suhad Sonbul, Umm Al-Qura University
Shelley Staples, University of Arizona
Scott Sterling, Indiana State University
Tripp Strawbridge, Santa Clara University
Wenyang Sun, University of Utah
Yuichi Suzuki, Kanagawa University (Japan)
Tetyana Sydorenko, Portland State University
Kevin W. H. Tai, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
Steven Thorne, Portland State University
Tricia Thrasher, Immerse
Zhongfeng Tian, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Julio Torres, University of California, Irvine
Paul Toth, Temple University
Nicole Tracy-Ventura, West Virginia University
Robert Train, Sonoma State University (a California State University)
Emma Trentman, University of New Mexico
Robert Troyer, Western Oregon University
Kimberly Urbanski, University of Massachusetts - Boston
Margaret van Naerssen, Independent Consultant
Joe Vitta, Kyushu University
Zhaozhe Wang, University of Toronto
Kelly Wiechart, KellyW Consulting
Xun Yan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hyung-Jo Yoon, California State University, Northridge
Janire Zalbidea, Temple University
Celia Zamora, ACTFL
Irina Zaykovskaya, University of Minnesota
Yi Zhang, Delaware State University