I am a fourth-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 interest lies in language contact and change, with particular interest in Creole languages. 

Questions driving my research include:

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

• What phonetic and morpho-syntactic features are changing as a result of contact?

• What causes certain of these features to be chosen over others?

• How can considering speakers as the agents driving language change reveal why their language evolves as it does? 

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