Our People
Dr. Evelyn Milburn is the director of the Experimental Cognition and Language Lab and an Assistant Professor at NDSU since 2025. She earned her Bachelors in Psychology with a minor in Linguistics from the University of California, Davis, before going on to complete a Masters and PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh. She joined the Department of Language and Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway for her postdoctoral work, and was a Visiting Teaching Professor at the University of Delaware. In her research, Dr. Milburn asks questions at the intersection of language comprehension, ambiguity resolution, prediction, and learning. Her goal is to understand how our language comprehension system is able to quickly and flexibly adapt to complicated real-life language use situations. In her free time, Dr. Milburn is an enthusiastic knitter, birdwatcher, and ceramic artist.
Office: Minard 134A12
Email: evelyn.milburn@ndsu.edu
You?
We are recruiting a graduate student for Fall 2026. Contact Dr. Milburn at evelyn.milburn@ndsu.edu for more details.
Research Assistants
Liudmila (Lusi) Kuznetcova
Hi! I’m Lusi. I’m a senior (soon – a recent graduate\alumni) with my major being psychology. My goal in the future is to become a professional counselor.
I’m originally from Russia, where I also was involved in psychology-related research (studying subcultures). I’ve been bilingual to some degree throughout my whole life, with English being my favorite discipline in school. My hobbies are board games (Smash Up is my favorite), crocheting, Disney, and My Little Pony (G4). I’m involved in Dr. Milburn’s language research because I find it fascinating how various, complicated and uniting language(s) can be and just how much each of us and our upbringing contributes to our linguistic environment and what we ourselves bring into this domain.