I'm currently analyzing fieldwork data from the summer of 2007 and preparing for another trip to the field starting in mid-December. Part of the work is for my dissertation research, and part is for my Endangered Language Fund grant, which supports documentation as well as the creation of an XML-based multimedia dictionary for Iñupiaq.
Academic background
I'm a Ph.D. student in Linguistics at Rice University. I got my B.A. with a double major in Japanese and Scandinavian Studies from Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, Minnesota) in 2000. I followed that with an M.A. in East Asian Languages and Literatures (Japanese language/linguistics) from the University of Hawai'i Mānoa, 2003.
Areas of interest
Alaskan languages, morphology, typology, phonology, phonetics, historical linguistics, Japanese/Japonic linguistics
fall 2007 courses
- TA for Dr. James Stanford's LING200 (intro to linguistics)
- dissertation research
- LING 550, departmental colloquium
