Professional experience
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Department of English, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 2024-Present
Education
PhD in Linguistics, 2024
Stanford University
Dissertation: Covariation and linguistic change through stylistic coalescence
Co-chairs: Robert Podesva & Penelope Eckert
BA in Linguistics & Languages, 2016
Swarthmore College
Additional coursework
Hindi-Urdu Startalk Language Program, University of Pennsylvania, 2014
Chinese Summer Language School, Middlebury College, 2013
Fellowships, grants, and awards
Victor W. Laurie Fellowship, U. of South Carolina, 2025
Research and Creative Scholarship Grant, U. of South Carolina, 2024
Best Student Paper Award, NWAV 50, 2022
Stanford Humanities Center Dissertation Prize, Stanford University, 2022-2023
Gilliland Award, Phi Beta Kappa of Northern California, 2021
Linguistics Department Research Grant, Stanford University, 2021
Pigott Scholars Fellowship, Stanford University, 2020-2021
Linguistics Department Research Grant, Stanford University, 2019
LSA Linguistic Institute Fellowship, University of California, Davis, 2019
Phi Beta Kappa, Swarthmore College, 2016
BA with Honors, Swarthmore College, 2016
Eugene M. Lang Summer Initiative Scholarship, Swarthmore College, 2015
National Science Foundation REU Grant, Swarthmore College, 2015
Letitia M. Wolverton Class of 1913 Scholarship, Swarthmore College, 2014-2015
Hindi-Urdu Startalk Language Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2014