About

I am a young linguist excited about the beauty and dignity of languages across the globe. I work in remote parts of Northern Australia documenting the highly endangered languages MalakMalak and Matngele and in New Mexico for the Acoma people. I believe that the languages of the world hold invaluable treasures to understanding human culture and mind and as such should be documented, treasured, and preserved for generations to come.

I am now affiliated with the University of Oregon as Honorary Research Associate and also work as a Documentary Linguist for The Language Conservancy. At my last position as a postdoc at the University of Chicago I was a member of the Language in Time and Space Research Group.

I also blog about Australian Languages, fieldwork, running, hiking, healthy food and lifestyle.

 

Research

I am interested in how and if the environment we live in can influence the way we perceive the world, talk, or even tell stories. My research is concerned with approaches to grammar and discourse that combine descriptive and documentary elements of linguistic research with functional and typological theoretical implications for language use. My work is…

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Teaching

The study of linguistics provides unique insight into the very nature of what it means to be human: communication and thinking are part of everyday life, but the complexity and breadth of what is covered and achieved by ‘language’ is baffling. Exploring this field from many different angles is what drives me in my research…

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Personal

When I don’t teach, study or am otherwise very seriously engaged, I enjoy volleyball of all shapes and types, (marathon) running, skiing, and hiking across national and state parks, and the wonderful city of Chicago. I also cannot go to sleep without reading my beloved books in a variety of genres from George R.R. Martin and…

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