ANTH 480: Studies of Language Use (linguistic anthropology methods, upper division)
ANTH 382: Language Change (upper division)
ANTH 200: Introduction to Language Studies/Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (lower division)

LING 129: Culture, Language, and Ethnicity in the U.S. (upper division)
LING 123: Sound and Communication (upper division)
LING 107: Patterns of English (upper division linguistics & graduate TESOL)
LLD 100WB: Writing Workshop for Business Students
LING 22: Language Across the Lifespan (lower division)

ENG 425: Language in Context (upper division linguistics & graduate TESOL)
ENG 424: Phonology and Morphology (upper division linguistics)
ENG 422: History of the English Language (upper division linguistics)
ENG 420: Introduction to the Study of Language (lower division linguistics)
ENG 210: Oral Communication for Multilingual Students

In press. Recovering Prosody from Karuk texts: Deciphering J.P. Harrington’s diacritics. In Darya Kavitskaya and Alan C. L. Yu (eds.), The life cycle of language: Past, present, and future (Clarendon).

2023. Karuk (with Andrew Garrett, Susan Gehr, Erik Hans Maier, Line Mikkelsen, and Crystal Richardson). In Carmen Jany, Marianne Mithun, and Keren Rice (eds.), The languages and linguistics of Indigenous North America (de Gruyter).

2020. A phonological sketch of Omagua (with Zachary O’Hagan). International Journal of American Linguistics 86(1), January 2020. 95-131.

2014. Tone and syllable structure in Karuk (Hokan, California). In Pat Littell, Analía Gutiérrez, Raphael Girard, and Natalie Weber (eds.), Papers from the Seventeenth Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 17), University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, March 9-11 2012. University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics 36, 37-58.

2006. Real and imagined landscapes: Land use and conservation in the Menabe. Conservation and Society 4(2):304-324.

2017. Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project (with Sonny Davis, Crystal Richardson, Vina Smith, Charlie Thom Sr., LuLu Alexander, Tamara Alexander, Andrew Garrett, Erik Hans Maier, Line Mikkelsen, and Florrine Super). 2017-04, California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2RR1WFX.

2010–2016. Ararahih’urípih: A dictionary and text corpus of the Karuk language (with William Bright, Andrew Garrett, Susan Gehr, Erik Maier, Line Mikkelsen and Ronald Sprouse). Online resource: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~karuk/.

2016. Elan-to-XML guide for Karuk transcription. Manual for Karuk researchers.

2014. Materials of the Omagua Documentation Project (with Lazarina Cabudivo Tuisima, Manuel Cabudivo Tuisima, Amelia Huanaquiri Tuisima, Arnaldo Huanaquiri Tuisima, Alicia Huanío Cabudivo, Lino Huanío Cabudivo, Lev Michael, Zachary O’Hagan, Tammy Stark, and Vivian Wauters). 2014-01, California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X28C9TDJ.

2013. Vowel contraction and deletion with personal prefixes. Handout and worksheet for Karuk learners and teachers.

2013. Introduction to Karuk accent. Handout for Karuk learners and teachers.

2013. Sentences and vocabulary for introductions, relatives, and serving food. Handout for Karuk Language Bootcamp, June 15, 2013.

2013. Karuk orthography key. Guide for Karuk researchers.

2013. Basic accent pronunciation. Summary for Karuk learners and teachers.

2011. Diccionario del idioma omagua: Versión primera (Dictionary of the Omagua language: first version) (with Zachary O’Hagan).

2009. Revisiting conversational postulates in Malagasy, Ms., University of California, Berkeley.

2008. Invading forces: Metaphor and framing in the wildfire debate, Ms., University of California, Berkeley.

2007. Chinquapin Developed Area, Yosemite National Park, California: Cultural landscape inventory (with Anne DuBarton). National Park Service, Yosemite National Park.

2007. Glacier Point Road, Yosemite National Park, California: Cultural landscape inventory (with Anne DuBarton). National Park Service, Yosemite National Park.

2000. Sur les traces des zébus: Une étude de la dynamique sociale de Bevoay (Tracking zebu cattle: A study of the social dynamics of Bevoay) (with Anita Deeg). Report of Rapid Rural Assessment Training, May 22-June 3, 2000. Fianarantsoa, Madagascar: Peace Corps.

2013. Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, with Chundra Cathcart, I-Hsuan Chen, Greg Finley, Shinae Kang, and Elise Stickles (eds.). Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

2013. Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Languages of the Caucasus, with Chundra Cathcart and Shinae Kang (eds.). Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

2012. Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, with Zhenya Antić, Charles B. Chang, Emily Cibelli, Jisup Hong, Michael J. Houser, Maziar Toosarvandani, and Yao Yao (eds.). Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

2012. Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on The Languages and Linguistics of Oceania, with Zhenya Antić, Charles B. Chang, and Maziar Toosarvandani (eds.). Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

2018. The role of morphosyntax in Karuk prefix accentability. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Salt Lake City, UT, Jan. 6. [handout]

2016. Karuk verbal morphology. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Washington, D.C., Jan. 9.

2015. The acoustic correlates of stress in Karuk: A preliminary look (with Ebony Milbury). Talk presented at the 18th annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, Santa Barbara, CA, May 9.

2015. Punctuation is prosody: Making historic transcriptions of Karuk accessible for revitalization and research (with Line Mikkelsen). Talk presented at the 4th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation, Honolulu, HI, Feb. 28.

2015. Default accent in Karuk: Evidence for stratal phonology. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, OR, Jan. 9.

2015. Bringing archival materials together to expand the Karuk text corpus. Invited poster presented at the Utilization of Language Archives in Endangered Language Research, Revitalization, and Documentation Special Session of the Committee for Endangered Languages and Their Preservation at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, OR, Jan. 11.

2015. Exploring Karuk morphology in a parsed text corpus (with Andrew Garrett, Erik Maier, and Line Mikkelsen). Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Portland, OR, Jan. 8.

2014. Translating diacritics: A comparison of historic transcriptions of Karuk accent. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Minneapolis, MN, Jan. 3.

2014. Developing a syntactically parsed corpus of Karuk (with Andrew Garrett, Erik Maier, and Line Mikkelsen). Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Minneapolis, MN, Jan. 3.

2012. Evidence for syntactic expression of information structure in Omagua (with Zachary O’Hagan). Talk presented at Syntax and Semantics Circle, UC Berkeley, Apr. 20.

2012. Verb extensions in Abo (Bantu, A42). Paper presented at the 43rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, New Orleans, LA, Mar. 15.

2012. Tone, stress, and accent in Karuk. Paper presented at the Workshop on Structure and Consistency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 17), Chicago, IL, Mar. 10.

2012. Stress assignment in Omagua: Evidence for cyclicity (with Zachary O’Hagan). Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Portland, OR, Jan. 8.

Field Researcher, Berkeley Karuk project, California (2011-2016)

• Worked with elder Karuk master speakers to conduct linguistic research and documentation.

• Collaborated with community language researchers, activists and teachers to create pedagogical materials and improve useability of documentation for language reclamation and learning.

Graduate Student Researcher, Karuk narratives project (2014-2015)

• Conducted acoustic analysis; extracted syntactic, morphological and phonological data from text corpus; transcribed, translated, and digitized archival recordings.

Graduate Student Researcher, Karuk text database and syntactic treebank project (2012-2014)

• Managed development of software templates and script; maintained and improved database; transcribed, digitized, analyzed, and tagged texts and audio recordings.

Field Researcher, Omagua documentation project, San Joaquin de Omáguas and Iquitos, Peru (2010-2011)

• Carried out lingustic documentation of highly endangered Amazonian language; identified and worked with consultants; produced recordings, texts, a dictionary, descriptive materials, and multilingual translations.

Cultural Resources Compliance Specialist, NewFields International, Yosemite, California (2005-2009)

• Prepared Cultural Landscape Inventories, Determinations of Eligibility, and historical and legal research.

• Conducted archaeological monitoring and coordinated Native American monitoring for major project.

Archaeological Technician, National Park Service, Yosemite, California (2002-2004)

• Organized and carried out archaeological survey and monitoring projects.

• Conducted training for archaeology interns and for non-archaeologists on wilderness restoration crews.

Virtual Service Pilot Participant, Peace Corps, Costa Rica (2022)

• Collaborated with Ministry of Education to make curriculum documents and teacher guides accessible.

Linguistic Partner, Breath of Life Archival Institute for California Indigenous Languages (2010-2014, 2022)

• Partnered with Miwok, Mono, and Pomo Indians to conduct research on their heritage languages at UC Berkeley archives, interpret linguistic materials, and create language teaching resources.

Mentor, Linguistics Graduate Program, UC Berkeley (2016)

• Paired with first year graduate student as advanced student in program.

Mentor, Linguistics Research Apprenticeship Practicum, UC Berkeley (2015-2016)

• Mentored linguistics undergraduate on phonetic analysis project; co-authored paper.

Volunteer, California Indian Conference, UC Berkeley (2015)

• Conducted workshop on audio and transcription tools for language documentation for California Indians.

Volunteer, McNair Scholars Program, UC Berkeley (2015)

• Assisted teaching research computing workshop for students of groups underrepresented in graduate school.

Mentor, Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program, UC Berkeley (2014)

• Trained and supervised two linguistics undergraduates collaborating on lexicon database project.

Peace Corps Volunteer, Peace Corps, Madagascar (1999-2001)

• Lived in traditional rural community; acted as liaison for community groups, nature reserve, and agencies.

• Worked with nature reserve to integrate traditional practices into conservation planning and outreach. 

• Conducted participatory socio-economic study of rural village that was used to affect regional policy.

Adult Mental Health First Aid, National Council for Mental Wellbeing (Sept. 2021) 

Teach Online Summer Certificate Program, Center for Faculty Development, eCampus, and Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, San José State University (Summer 2020)

Certificate of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, GSI Teaching & Resource Center, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley (Fall 2015)

Summer Institute for Preparing Future Faculty, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley (Summer 2015)

National Science Foundation SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (2014-2016)

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Latin America, Portuguese)
Federal fellowships (2010-2011; 2011-2012)

A. Richard Diebold, Jr. Fellowship in Linguistics
Departmental fellowship (2009-2010)

Computing Skills

Linguistics: Praat, Wavesurfer, Audacity, ELAN, FLEx
Programming/Analysis: Python, R, bash, regular expressions, mySQL, GIS
LMS/Remote Teaching: Canvas, Moodle, Zoom, Google Workspace
General: XML, LaTeX, MS Office, OpenOffice, Adobe Acrobat Professional

Languages

Fluent: English (native), French
Advanced: Portuguese, Spanish, Malagasy
Fieldwork/Research: Karuk (Hokan), Omagua (Tupí-Guaraní), Abo (Bantu A42), Southern Sierra Miwok (Penutian)

Professional Service and Membership

Member, Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (2011-present)
Member, Linguistic Society of America (2007-present)
Member, regular presenter, Group in American Indian Linguistics, UC Berkeley (2010-2017)
Co-organizer, Women Graduate Students in Linguistics, UC Berkeley (2015-2016)
Co-organizer, 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2010-2011)
Co-organizer, Fieldwork Forum, Linguistics Department, UC Berkeley (2010-2011)