Joe Patrick Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, PA, US

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Conducted comprehensive data collection, organization, and analysis from social media platforms to identify discourse trends related to ethnicity, nationality, and linguistic and religious identity in Southeast Europe.
• Utilized Regular Expressions (RegEx) and statistical analysis in R to develop a corpus and classify grammatical usage patterns across Serbian and Croatian Wikipedia. Mapped correlations between article topics and the.
• Executed stance analysis on Twitter data using formal semiotic methodologies to examine ideology formation, with research findings presented at several public colloquia.
• Secured the prestigious David L. Boren Research Fellowship ($25,000) to support dissertation research in Montenegro for the 2023-2024 academic year.
• Awarded multiple competitive Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships, totaling approximately $104,000, for advanced study in Bulgarian and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian languages and cultures.
• Completed training in open-source intelligence (OSINT) methods for social media research through participation in the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Instructor of Record / Teaching Fellow:
• Introduction to Linguistics (LING1000)
• Aspects of Sociolinguistics (LING1267)Teaching Assistant:
• Morphology (LING1773)
• Syntactic Theory (LING1777)
• Linguistic Structures of English (LING1738)

Podgorica, Montenegro

• Awarded David L. Boren research fellow in Montenegro (https://www.borenawards.org/)
• Conducted in-depth ethnographic and observational research, with a focus on linguistic and cultural immersion in the local Montenegrin context.
• Affiliated with the Faculty of Montenegrin Language and Literature (Fakultet za crnogorski jezik i književnost, FCJK) in Cetinje, Montenegro

University Of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA

• Elected President (two years) and Business Manager (two years) for the Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia (GOSECA), an interdisciplinary graduate organization under the Center for Russian.
• Organized four graduate student conferences, attracting international and domestic participants. Led the planning of film screenings, lectures, and networking events for scholars and students of Russia, Eastern Europe.
• Collaborated with various language and cultural centers at Pitt to organize and execute events, including the Language Coffee House (through LCTL), Pittsburgh Polish Fest, Slovak Heritage Festival, East European.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Classroom Assistant for a federally funded TRIO Upward Bound program, supporting college-preparatory education for high school students in Philadelphia.
• Assisted in teaching weekend and summer-intensive courses in English composition, Italian, Japanese, Swahili, Theater arts, and College Success skills.
• Provided daily after-school tutoring, helping students strengthen their academic performance and prepare for college entry.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Linguistics

Concentration in Sociolinguistics with a graduate certificate in East European Studies

360/Digital Sherlocks Program

• Completed online seminars and training sessions in topics such as: Information Operations 101, geolocation, OSINT Tools that Work via.

Montenegrin Language And Culture

Intensive study of Montenegrin language and culture hosted by the University of Donja Gorica in Podgorica, Montenegro; July 13th.

Bachelor'S Degree, English Literature, Minor In Economics

Associate'S Degree, Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies

Activities and Societies: Honors Program