Kristen Kennedy Terry is Assistant Professor of French Linguistics at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on the intersection of second language acquisition and sociolinguistics, specifically the acquisition of variation by second language learners. She has published her research on social networks and study abroad in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, The Modern Language Journal, The Routledge handbook of second language acquisition and sociolinguistics, Variation in second and heritage languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives, and the L2 Journal. In 2024, she published a monograph with Robert Bayley in the Routledge Second Language Acquisition Research Series entitled Social Network Analysis in Second Language Research: Theory and Methods.