Education
- 2023: Ph.D. in Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin.
- 2017: B.A. in Linguistics and Anthropology with a minor in Latin American Studies at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
Field Experience
For 6 weeks in June and July 2019, I conducted a pilot fieldwork study on the comparative syntax of three K'iche'an languages spoken in Guatemala: Q'eqchi', in San Pedro Carchá, Alta Verapaz; Poqomchi', in Tactic, Alta Verapaz; and Uspanteko, in Uspantán, El Quiché.
In June and July 2016, I attended the 6-week Mayan Language Institute in Nahualá, Guatemala, to study the K'iche' language.
In January 2016, I participated in the Sustainable Development Field School in Partnership with the Ch'orti' Maya, a 2-week study abroad program led by Dr. Brent Metz of The University of Kansas. The program's focus was cultural preservation and environmental sustainability, and how these may or may not align.
Other Experience
In July 2017, I attended the LSA's Linguistic Institute at the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington, Kentucky. I took short courses in morphology, historical linguistics, historical sociolinguistics, and constructed languages. The 2017 Institute also marked the inaugural conference of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS), with a number of associated workshops and events.