American linguist
Tracey Weldon is an American linguist who studies variationist sociolinguistics, Gullah, Quantitative Sociolinguistics, and African American English. 
Education.
Weldon received her BA in English and French from Furman University in 1991 and her PhD in Linguistics from Ohio State University in 1998 with her dissertation "Exploring the AAVE-Gullah connection: A comparative study of copula variability".
Career.
Weldon's work has contributed to work on varieties of African American English and Gullah. She was one of the producers of the documentary Talking Black in America. Her most notable publication is her book on "Middle Class African American English," which is the first comprehensive analysis of middle class AAE speakers rather than working class speakers who have traditionally received more scholarly attention. Some topics she explores from her first person perspective in the book include code switching, public performance, linguistic attitudes, and camouflaged features. 
She was the chair for the Linguistic Society of America's Committee for Ethnic Diversity (CEDL) in 2004, 2005 and 2019.
She has had various administrative positions; she was the Associate Dean of Diversity for the College of Arts and Sciences and in 2021, she was appointed the interim dean of the Graduate School at the University of South Carolina.
She has taught several courses such as African American English, Introduction to Language, Introduction to Language, Introduction to Language Sciences, Language and Gender, Language in the USA and The English Language. She has been interviewed for such programs as Sounds of the South and CODESWITCHING: Black Girl from the Burbs. 
Weldon serves as the Executive Editor for the Oxford Dictionary of African American English.
Personal life.
In the documentary Talking Black in America, Tracey discussed her husband who is from Jamaica. Through her studies and career the both of them have been able to recognize similarities and differences in the way he speaks compared to people from other parts of the Caribbean.
Selected publications.
Books
Academic Journal Articles
References.
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