Nicole Holliday
researcher (ORCID 0000-0001-8921-2509)
Nicole Holliday is an American linguist. She earned her PhD in linguistics in 2016 at New York University under the supervision of Renée A. Blake. She was an assistant professor in the department of linguistics and cognitive science at Pomona College from 2017 to 2024, overlapping with her position as assistant professor in University of Pennsylvania's linguistics department from 2020 to 2020. Since 2024, she has been an associate professor at University of California, Berkeley.
Holliday's area of research includes how speakers use variation in the process of identity formation. She also focuses on the intersection of political speech and identity, analyzing the speech patterns of specific politicians such as Barack Obama and Kamala Harris. As of 2025, her recent work has been on speech technologies and bias as it relates to variation.
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