Karee Garvin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at The Ohio State University. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2021. She also holds an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Iowa (2016), an M.S. in Anthropology from Idaho State University (2014), and a B.A. in Creative Writing with minors in Russian and Linguistics from Idaho State University (2012). Following her Ph.D., she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University.

Her research investigates speech production and the phonetics-phonology interface, specifically how patterns in speech articulation and co-speech gesture production illuminate the mechanical pressures driving phonological phenomena. Her work utilizes a diverse methodological toolkit, combining laboratory expertise—particularly in electromagnetic articulography (EMA) and co-speech gesture—with extensive fieldwork. She leverages this empirical data to formalize theoretical accounts of articulatory pressures within frameworks such as Optimality Theory, MaxEnt, and Q-theory. Additionally, she develops computational tools for processing and analyzing speech production data, which are available through her website. As a fieldworker, she focuses on Nafaanra (a Senufo language of Ghana), with projects spanning its phonetics and phonology, color naming systems, and areal patterns in STAMP morphology across the Macro-Sudan Belt.