Sharese King is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago who received her PhD in 2018 from Stanford University. Her previous research has drawn on phonetic, ethnographic, and experimental techniques to explore how African Americans' speech is constructed and racialized and the implications for racialized voices within the judicial system in the United States. King is an expert on various topics in the study of African American Language including race and place, identity, and linguistic bias. King's work has been published in venues such as American Speech, the Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language, and Nature.
Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and the College; Associate Member in the Department of Comparative Human Development
Biography
Current and Recent Courses
LING
26002
Sociolinguistics
Recent Research / Recent Publications
" A Racial Reckoning: Locating and Litigating RJA claims (and then some) through the Lens of Sociolinguistics
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" Linguistic Bias in the Courtroom and Beyond
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" Speaking While Black: AAVE, Bias, and the Legal System
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" To The White House and Beyond
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" An intergenerational perspective on African American Language
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" Linguistics on Trial: Race, Language and The Law
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" Mixed-Method approaches to Studying Language and Social Justice
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" Racialization as meaning-making: A multidisciplinary approach to race and language in the criminal legal system
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" Raciosemiotic Order in the Court
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" Sociolinguistics & Criminal Legal Reform
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