Curriculum Vitae

Academic Positions

2022 - present. Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

2020 - 2022. Associate Research Professor, tenured (investigador, titular "A", de tiempo completo, definitivo). Seminario de Lenguas Indígenas, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

2014 - 2020. Assitant Research Professor (investigador, asociado “C”, de tiempo completo). Seminario de Lenguas Indígenas, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

2014. Short Term Joint Researcher, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo.

2013 – 2014. Postdoctoral Researcher, for the DEL project, ‘Preserving and Enhancing Access to the Survey of Zapotec and Chatino languages’, NSF #BCS-1263671, Mark Sicoli, PI. Georgetown University.

Editorial work

2024 – present. Editorial Board of Tlalocan: Revistas Filológicas

2023 - present. Associate editor of International Journal of American Linguistics.

2023 - present. Editorial Board of Topics in Phonological diversity, Language Science Press. 

2022 - present. 『語学研究所論集』編集担当幹事。東京外国語大学 

2018 - 2019. Tlalocan vols. XXIV and XXV. Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, UNAM (edited with Lilián Guerrero (vol. XXIV), Carolyn O’Meara (vol. XXV)).

Education

2013. Ph.D. in Linguistics, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (Ph.D. dissertation: Tone and Accent in Oklahoma Cherokee)

2011 - 2012.  Graduate Student Fellow for the project ‘Tonal phonology of San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec’. Smithsonian Institution

2007. M.A. in Linguistics, The University of Tokyo (Master's Thesis: Cherokee Phonology and Verb Morphology). 

2004. B.A. in Language and Area Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.