Ewa received a Ph.D. in Germanic Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999. She joined Ohio State and the Department of Speech and Hearing Science in 2000 as an NIH Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Since then, she has pursued a full-time research carrier in speech science as a Research Scientist, a then a Research Faculty.  Her research explores both acoustic and perceptual characteristics of speech in the social context of changing demographics in the United States, including regional, generational, ethnic, and non-native-accented variations. Her research interests also include speech development in children with and without speech disorders. She co-directs (with Dr. Robert A. Fox) the Speech Perception and Acoustics Laboratory and has served as the principal investigator and co-investigator of several NIH-funded projects. Her work has been published in a variety of professional journals and presented at national and international meetings. She has served as Associate Editor for the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (2012-2015), and for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2017-2024). She is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. 

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