I am a first-year PhD student in the Comparative Human Development department at the University of Chicago. ****I am working with Dr. Marisa Casillas and her lab.
Outside of research, I love finding new restaurants to try in Chicago, listening to music, and trying new recipes.
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Ph.D. in Comparative Human Development
2025 - Current
Advisor: Dr. Marisa Casillas
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
B.A. Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences and Spanish
2019 - 2023
Advisors: Drs. Angela Carpenter and Inela Selimović
Cumulative GPA: 3.9 Summa cum laude
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<aside> <img src="/icons/star-outline_orange.svg" alt="/icons/star-outline_orange.svg" width="40px" /> Developmental psycholinguistics, language development, identity development, ideologies, socialization, creole languages, cross-cultural research, social relationships.
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Behm, L., Yates, T. S., Trach, J. E., Choi, D., Du, H., Osumah, C., Deen, B., Kosakowski, H. L., Chen, E. M., Kamps, F. S., Olson, H. A., Ellis, C. T., Saxe, R., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2026). Functional magnetic resonance imaging in awake infants: Insights from more than 750 scanning sessions. Infancy, 31(1), e70062. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70062
Olson, H. A., Chen, E. M., Osumah, C., Du, H., Fedorenko, E., Saxe, R. (2026). The emergence of the language system in the toddler brain. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.26.707550
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<aside> <img src="/icons/star-outline_orange.svg" alt="/icons/star-outline_orange.svg" width="40px" /> Osumah, C. (April, 2023). What do you mean you invented a language? Presentation and panel given at the 27th annual Ruhlman Conference at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA**.**
Osumah, C. (July, 2022). “Yekrik, Yekrak!” Une exploration de l’étymologie des personnages du folklore des Caraïbes. Final presentation given at the University of Antilles, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe through the NSF Experimental Linguistics in the Caribbean fellowship.
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