Carolyn Hawkshaw is a fifth year Ph.D. student in Germanic Linguistics. In 2004, she received her Bachelor of Music degree from McGill University (Montreal), where she majored in Musicology and studied piano with Canadian pianist Sara Laimon. She spent two years as a student at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet in Freiburg (Breisgau), Germany, before enrolling in the Germanic Linguistics Ph.D. Program at Berkeley in 2006. She completed the MA in Germanic Linguistics in 2008. Her interests lie primarily within the realm of historical/comparative linguistics, and include: older Germanic dialects, Greek interference in Wulfilian Gothic, dialectal variation within Old High German, methods of linguistic reconstruction, and morphology of Modern Standard German. Her dissertation deals with the evolution of the weak masculine nouns in German from the 14th century through the present day.