RACHEL HAYES-HARB portrait
  • Senior Education Advisor for Mentoring in Research, Vp For Research
  • Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs, Honors College
  • Professor, Linguistics

Professional Service

  • National Science Foundation. Panel member/Zoom. 11/2023 - 11/2023
  • Syracuse University. External Faculty Promotion to Full Professor Reviewer. 01/2023 - 12/2023
  • Al-'Arabiyya, glossa, Journal of Phonetics, Phonetica, Second Language Research, etc. ad hoc reviewer. 01/2023 - 12/2023
  • External Faculty Retention/Promotion Evaluator. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Department of Second Language Studies, Northern Illinois University, Department of World Languages and Cultures. 01/01/2020 - 12/31/2020
  • Editorial Board Member. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, Second Language Research. 01/01/2020 - 12/31/2020
  • Journal article reviewer. Second Language Research, Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, Journal of Phonetics. 01/01/2020 - 12/31/2020
  • Conference Abstract Reviewer. American Association of Applied Linguistics. 01/01/2020 - 12/31/2020
  • Grant Reviewer. National Science Foundation. 01/01/2020 - 12/31/2020
  • Acoustical Society of America. Co-Organizer of Best Student Paper Award, Students Meet Members for Lunch Program, and Student Poster Judge. 11/2019 - 11/2019
  • Journal Article Reviews. Role: Ad-hoc Reviewer. Foreign Langaue Annals, Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, Linguistis Vanguard, Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research. 01/2019 - 12/2019
  • External Faculty Retention/Promotion Evaluator. Brigham Young University, Linguistics; University of Kansas, Linguistics; Northern Arizona University, English . 01/2019 - 12/2019
  • External Dissertation Committee Member. Abdulaziz Alarifi, Assessing the effects of distributional learning and orthographic information on native English speakers’ perception of consonant length contrast, University of Alberta, Linguistics. 01/2019 - 12/2019
  • Grant Reviews. Role: Ad-hoc Reviewer. British Academy Leverhulme Research Grants. 01/2019 - 12/2019
  • Conference Abstract Reviews. Role: Ad-hoc Reviewer. American Association of Applied Linguistics, New Sounds, Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching. 01/2019 - 12/2019
  • Conference Abstracts Review. American Association of Applied Linguistics . 01/2018 - 12/2018
  • External Faculty Retention/Promotion Evaluator. University of Maryland, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Indiana University, Second Language Studies University of South Florida, Department of World Languages University of California Santa Cruz, Languages and Applied Linguistics . 01/2018 - 12/2018
  • Grant Reviews. National Science Foundation, University of Utah Faculty Research & Creative Grant . 01/2018 - 12/2018
  • Conference Proceedings Review. Proceedings of the Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference. 01/01/2018 - 12/31/2018
  • Applied Psycholinguistics. ASSOCIATE EDITOR. 11/01/2017 - 12/31/2018
  • Journal Article Reviews. Applied Psycholinguistics; Bilingualism: Language and Cognition; Canadian Modern Language Review; Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; Second Language Research; Studies in Second Language Acquisition; Journal of Second Language Pronunciation. 01/01/2017 - 12/31/2017
  • Book Chapter review. The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Second Language Acquisition. 01/01/2017 - 12/31/2017
  • Conference Proceedings Review. Proceedings of the Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference. 01/01/2017 - 12/31/2017
  • Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching. Conference Organizer . 09/2016 - 09/2017
  • Key Issues in the Teaching of Spanish Pronunciation (Routledge). Book chapter review. 01/2016 - 12/2016
  • Mississippi State University. External Faculty Retention/Promotion Evaluator . 01/2016 - 12/2016
  • Journal article reviews. Acta Acustica; Applied Psycholinguistics; Foreign Language Annals; Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 01/2016 - 10/2016
  • Phonetica (Journal). ASSOCIATE EDITOR. 01/01/2016 - 12/31/2018
  • Second Language Research Forum 2015. Abstract Reviewer. 01/2015 - 12/2015
  • Ithaca College, Speech Language Pathology & Audiology. External Tenure/Promotion Evaluator. 01/2015 - 12/2015
  • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Linguistics. External Tenure/Promotion Evaluator. 01/2015 - 12/2015
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Grant Reviewer. 01/2015 - 12/2015
  • Interspeech 2015. Abstract Reviewer. 01/2015 - 12/2015
  • Applied Psycholinguistics (Journal). Editorial Board Member. 01/01/2015 - 12/2018
  • Proceedings of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Reviewer. 01/01/2015 - 12/31/2015
  • Edinburgh University Press. Book reviewer. 01/01/2015 - 12/31/2015
  • Journal Article Reviews. Acta Acustica; Applied Psycholinguistics; Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition; Journal of Second Language Pronunciation; Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics; Language and Speech; Language Learning; Perception/i-Perception; Second Language Research; SKY Journal of Linguistics (2015); Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics. 01/01/2015 - 12/31/2015
  • Journal of Second Language Pronunciation (Journal). Editorial Board Member. 01/2014 - present
  • Journal Article Reviews. Applied Psycholinguistics, Language and Speech, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, International Journal of Bilingualism, Second Language Research, Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Modern Language Journal; Bilingualism: Language and Cognition; Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 01/2014 - 12/2014
  • Second Language Research Forum (Conference). Organizer, ‘L2 phonetics and phonology: Insights from studies of the L2 lexicon’, invited colloquium at the Second Language Research Forum 2013, Provo, UT. 10/2013 - 10/2013
  • EuroSLA 2013 (Conference). Co-organizer, ‘Second language phonology at the interface between acoustic and orthographic input’, colloquium at EuroSLA 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, co-organizers Benedetta Bassetti and Paola Escudero. 08/2013 - 08/2013
  • Second Language Research (Journal). Editorial Board Member. 06/2013 - present
  • Proceedings of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Conference proceeding reviewer. 01/01/2013 - 12/31/2013
  • University of Calgary Department of Linguistics. External Retention/Promotion Evaluator. 01/01/2013 - 12/31/2013
  • Austrian Science Fund. Grant reviewer. 01/01/2013 - 12/31/2013
  • University of New South Wales School of Psychology. External dissertation evaluator. 01/01/2013 - 12/31/2013
  • National Science Foundation. Grant reviewer. 01/01/2013 - 12/31/2013
  • Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Grant reviewer. 01/01/2013 - 12/31/2013
  • British Academy Leverhulme Research Project Grant. Grant reviewer. 01/01/2013 - 12/31/2013
  • Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, British Academy Leverhulme Small Research Grants. Grant reviewer. 11/2012 - 11/2012
  • Second Language Research Forum. Organizer, invited colloquium at the Second Language Research Forum, Provo, UT. 10/2012 - 10/2013
  • Applied Psycholinguistics (Journal). ASSOCIATE EDITOR. 08/01/2011 - 07/01/2015
  • McGill University. External Dissertation Evaluator. 01/2011 - 12/2011
  • National Science Foundation, Linguistics Program. Grant reviewer. 01/2011 - 12/2011
  • American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Meeting 2011. Abstract reviewer. 01/2010 - 12/2011
  • Journal Article Reviews. Phonetica, Language Learning, Second Language Research, Journal of Phonetics, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Applied Psycholinguistics, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Lingua. 01/2010 - 12/2010

Internal Service

  • Department of Linguistics Academic Senate Representative. 09/2023 - present. Department service.
  • Latinx Advisory Council Member. 09/2022 - 09/2023. University service.
  • Ad hoc Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. 01/2021 - 12/2021. Department service.
  • HHMI Driving Change Leadership Team Member. 01/01/2020 - present. University service.
  • HAPPIEST (R25) Internal Advisory Committee Member. 01/01/2020 - present. University service.
  • Grant reviewer, Faculty Research & Creative Grant. 01/2019 - 12/2019. University service.
  • Linguistics Chair Search Committee Chair. 08/2016 - 04/2017. Department service.
  • Ad hoc RPT Committee Chair. 08/2015 - 12/2016. Department service.
  • College Road Mapping Committee Member . 08/2015 - 06/2016. College service.
  • ad-hoc Senate Learning Outcomes Assessment Committee . 08/2015 - 06/2016. University service.
  • Linguistics Chair Search Committee Member. 08/2015 - 04/2016. Department service.
  • Women’s Education Specialist Search Committee Member . 01/2015 - 12/2015. University service.
  • Graduate Council Review Committee Member, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. 01/2015 - 12/2015. University service.
  • UAAC Award Subcommittee Member. 01/2015 - 12/2015. University service.
  • Tanner Center Faculty Advisory Board. 08/01/2013 - 12/31/2015. College service.
  • External Post-Tenure Review Evaluator, Department of Languages & Literature. 05/01/2013 - 05/31/2013. College service.
  • Ad hoc RPT committee chair. 01/01/2013 - 12/31/2013. Department service.
  • University Research Committee, University of Utah Faculty Research and Creative Grant Reviewer. 01/01/2013 - 01/31/2013. University service.
  • SLA Position Search Committee Chair. 09/2012 - 02/2013. Department service.
  • Associate Director of Research, Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC). 08/2012 - 08/2015. College service.
  • Academic Senate Member. 08/2011 - 06/2015. University service.
  • Academic Senate Executive Committee member. 08/2011 - 07/2012. University service.
  • Humanities Overnight Orientation Presenter. 06/2010 - 06/2010. College service.

Community Partnership

  • President, Board of Directors, English Skills Learning Center, Salt Lake City, UT. 09/2014 - 09/2015
  • Vice President, Board of Directors, English Skills Learning Center, Salt Lake City, UT. 10/2013 - 09/2014
  • Board of Directors, English Skills Learning Center, Salt Lake City, UT. 01/2011 - 08/2015

Honors & Awards

  • 2023 College of Humanities Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award. Office of Undergraduate Research, University of Utah, 03/2023

Affiliations

  • Phonetica , Associate Editor, 01/2016 - present
  • Applied Psycholinguistics , Editorial Board Member, 01/2015 - present
  • Journal of Second Language Pronunciation , Editorial Board Member, 01/2015 - present
  • Second Language Research , Editorial Board Member, 04/2013 - present
  • Applied Psycholinguistics , Associate Editor, 11/2011 - 11/2014