Caroline Crouch joined the Rice linguistics department as a lecturer in 2022 after completing her PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She teaches core courses on phonetics and phonology, and has offered electives on multilingualism, historical linguistics, and computational linguistics.

Her current research uses electromagnetic articulographic (EMA) data to focus on the unusual spatiotemporal organization of syllables in Georgian and the implications of these findings for representations and definitions of the syllable as a unit of speech production and planning. More broadly she is interested in the relationship between speech perception and both the acoustic and articulatory dimensions of speech production. Since 2015, she has also been working with the Mewun community of Vanuatu on the revitalization and documentation of the Ninde language. The Ninde deposit in ELAR can be found here, and more information on Dr. Crouch's teaching and research can be found on her website.