Dissertations directed 

• Ray Incamu Huaute (President’s Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Riverside). Dissertation: Topics in the Phonology and Morphology of Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla (2023). 

• Andrés Aguilar (Assistant Professor, Transnational Arts, San Diego State University). Dissertation: The phonology and phonetics of laryngeal sounds in Chicontepec Nahuatl  (co-chaired with Marc Garellek) (2020)

• Lucien Carroll (NLP engineer, Cisco). Dissertation: Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec word prosody (co-chaired with Eric Bakovic) (2015) 

Current advisees

• Claudia Duarte-Borquez (PhD student)

Dissertation committees

• Mark Simons (Dissertation chairs: Sharon Rose and Will Styler) (in progress)

• Matt Carter (Dissertation chair: Farrell Ackerman) (in progress)

• Anthony Struthers-Young (Dissertation chair: Sharon Rose) (in progress)

• Rachel Miles (Dissertation chair: Rachel Mayberry) (in progress)

• Maxine van Doren (Dissertation chair: Marc Garellek) (in progress)

• Matthew Zaslansky (Dissertation chairs: Farrell Ackerman and Rachel Mayberry) (in progress)

• Amber Thompson (Dissertation chair: Farrell Ackerman) (in progress)

• Amanda Ritchart (Dissertation chair: Marc Garellek) (in progress)

• Yuan Chai (Dissertation chair: Marc Garellek) (2022)

• Michael Obiri-Yeboah (Dissertation chair: Sharon Rose) (2021)

• Katherine Hout (Dissertation chair: Eric Bakovic) (2020)

• Rodolfo Mata (Dissertation chair: John Moore) (2016)

• Scott Seyfarth (Dissertation chairs: Farrell Ackerman and Marc Garellek) (2016)

• Melanie McComsey (UCSD Anthropology) (Dissertation chair: John Haviland) (2015)

M.A. committees

• José Isidro Morales Moreno - Estructura de Cláusula, Tópico y Foco en el Rarámuri de Rochéachi (MA thesis chair: Verónica Vázquez Soto) (2016) Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Maestría en Lingüística Indoamericana (Mexico)

B.A. theses advised

• Richard Kroeger - Folk definitions of Korean Ideophones (co-advised with Sharon Rose) (2016)    

• Austin German - Gaze and Space in Zinacantec Family Homesign (co-advised with John Haviland, UCSD Anthropology) (2018)                                 

Courses taught at UCSD

LIGN 8: Languages and Cultures of America

LIGN 120: Morphology (Undergraduate)

LIGN 141: Language Structures 

• Choguita Rarámuri (2023)

LIGN 152: Indigenous Languages of the Americas (Undergraduate)

LIGN 215: Topics in Phonology (Graduate)

• Grammatical tone - co-taught with Sharon Rose (2020)

LIGN 220: Morphology (Graduate)

LIGN 240-241: Field methods (Graduate) 

• San Juan Piñas Mixtec (Oto-Manguean; Mexico) - co-taught w/Michelle Yuan and Claudia Juárez Chávez (2020)

• Ja’a Kumiai (Yuman; Mexico) - co-taught with Yolanda Meza (2016) 

• Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec (Tu’un Savi; Oto-Manguean; Mexico) - co-taught with Matilde Castillo and Otilio Osorio (2012, 2013) 

• Purépecha (isolate; Mexico) - co-taught with Héctor Rodríguez (2011)

• GiTonga (Bantu; Mozambique) - co-taught with John Januario (2010)

LIGN 248: Topics in Morphology (Graduate)

• Empirical methods in phonological and morphological research (2016)

• The Phonology-Morphology Interface (2013)

• Multiple Exponence (2011)

LIGN 293: Research Practicum (Graduate)