I am soon ending my time as Associate Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics and will thereafter be able to return in a more focused way to research. 

In Spring 2026, free time devoted to research was spent finishing up a manuscript on Jhar noun tone which is now under review. I have also being working with two graduate students on aspects of the Jarawan project -- assessing historical morphophonology, and also the competing stem-controlled vs. enclitic-controlled height harmony witnessed in Jhar. These projects will be presented at the upcoming co-located Banto3d and ACAL 57 conferences in May 2026.

I will present new research on broad tonogenesis, through the lens of four Jarawan languages, at the Association for Linguistic Typology meeting in Lyon, France, in July 2026.