Education
May 2014 Ph.D. Applied Linguistics (with distinction)
Northern Arizona University
Dissertation title: ‘Reader perceptions of linguistic variation in published academic writing’
Dissertation chair: Douglas Biber
May 2013 Graduate Certificate in Applied Statistics
Northern Arizona University
Dec. 2010 M.A. Teaching English as a Second Language (with distinction)
Northern Arizona University
Aug. 2009 B.A. Linguistics (summa cum laude and University Honors)
Brigham Young University
Honors thesis: ‘Intergenerational language attitudes and vitality: The Navajo language shift’
Employment
2024 – present Professor, Northern Arizona University
2022 – 2023 Visiting Researcher, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University
2019 – 2024 Associate Professor, Northern Arizona University
2016 – 2019 Assistant Professor, Northern Arizona University
2015 – 2016 Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University
2014 – 2015 Visiting Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University
2012 – 2014 Research Assistant, Northern Arizona University
National Science Foundation grant #1147581
‘A linguistic taxonomy of English web registers’
Co-Principal Investigators: Douglas Biber & Mark Davies
Summer 2012 Research Fellow, Centre for Corpus Research, University of Birmingham, UK
2009 – 2012 Instructor, Northern Arizona University
2006 – 2009 Instructor (Fijian), Missionary Training Center