Aisha Barise, PhD Candidate in Educational Studies (Language Acquisition Program at McGill University), supervised by Angelica Galante, is the winner of the 2024 Graduate Student Award (GSA). This award is made to the very best authors among the highest ranked proposals for papers submitted by graduate students for the annual American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference. The GSA award recognizes Aisha Barise's excellent research in the field.
The award will be presented at the 2024 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference in Houston, Texas, March 16-19, 2024.
Barise's presentation is titled "African Linguicide and Linguistic Famine: Reckoning with Biomorphic Metaphors and the Materiality of Colonial Violence" and the full abstract is available through McGill's Plurilingual Lab's website.
The CSLP offers our congratulations to Aisha Barise on her accomplishment.