I am a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

I completed my B.A. in Linguistics and French at Wellesley College in 2019. My primary research interests lie in language contact and change, with particular interest in Creole languages and phonetics. 

Questions driving my research include:

• How do bilingual and diasporic communities spark language change in home and host environments?

• What phonetic features are changing as a result of contact?

• What factors present in the linguistic environment cause certain of these features to be chosen over others?

• How can considering speakers as both independent and community agents of change reveal why language evolves as it does? 

I am currently bringing concepts from phonetics, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and contact linguistics to a study of the New England Cabo Verdean Creole-speaking community.