Welcome!

I am a social sciences researcher with a PhD in Linguistics from UC Berkeley.   This website is dedicated to my past and ongoing academic research.

My primary research interests are in indigenous and marginalized language revitalization, phonetics, phonology, and variation. My dissertation focused on the relationship between laryngeal features and segmental length in Yanesha' (Arawak), Barese (Upper Southern Italian Language Group), and Maranese / Calabrese (Extreme Southern Italian Language Group). This relationship sheds light on some of the big questions in phonology, such as whether representations should favor phonetic detail or phonological abstraction, and when to incorporate categoricity versus gradience. 

I respectfully acknowledge that I live and work on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe.