In Summer 2025, my focus is primarily on continuing my Jarawan description and documentation project. One goal is to firm up details of the Jhar (Mbat and Galamkya dialects) tone system in anticipation of completing a curated text collections book that is under contract. I have also been working through new data on Gwak which, like Duguri, seems to have an inverted tone system, in comparison to other Jarawan languages like Jhar, Kulung, and Mbula.
I will present joint work in progress with Dr. Isa Haliru on Kulung consonant-tone interaction at ACAL 55 in Minneapolis in May 2025.
Also at ACAL 55, I will present another joint project on Djibouti Somali vowel harmony, in collaboration with Dr. Nicola Lampitelli.
Next steps of Rebecca Grollemund and my project on Proto Jarawan documentation will be presented at ICHL in Santiago, Chile, in August 2025.
In AY 2025-2026, I will continue my role of Associate Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
I will not teach in Fall 2025, as I will be the Winifred Seely Myers Love Faculty Fellow for the semester, which relieves me of my teaching responsibilities.