Employment

Associate Professor, Gallaudet University, 2023-present

Assistant Professor, Gallaudet University, 2018-2023

Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi, 2015-2018

Education

Postdoctoral Fellow, Linguistics, University of Alberta, 2013-2015

• Supervisors: Juhani Jarvikivi at the Center for Comparative Psycholinguistics and Ben Tucker at the Alberta Phonetics Laboratory

Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Arizona, 2013

• Minor: Cognitive Science

• Advisor: LouAnn Gerken

• Dissertation committee: Rebecca Gomez, Heidi Harley, Diane Ohala

• Ph.D. thesis: From sound to syntax: The prosodic bootstrapping of clauses

M.A. Linguistics, University of Arizona, 2009

B.A. Linguistics and Psychology, Brandeis University, 2006

• Minor: Spanish

• Advisor: Ray Jackendoff

• Honor's thesis: The comprehension of novel noun-noun compounds in young children

• Summa Cum Laude, Highest Honors in Linguistics