I received my Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2003 and joined the Modern Languages faculty in 2006. Prior to OU, I spent two years at Mie University (Japan) and one year at Pomona College.

My research specialization is theoretical phonology and the phonetics-phonology interface. My early work was on Catalan dialects, couched within Dispersion Theory. Since moving to Oklahoma, I have shifted my research focus to Native American languages. I’ve investigated the Comanche vowel system and tone and vowel length in Cherokee. I’m currently looking into the phonology of Osage, and Dr. Marcia Haag, Cameron Pratt, Stephanie Rapp, and I are working on a pedagogical grammar for the Osage language.

I teach General Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Phonetic Field Methods, Historical Linguistics, Lesser Studied Languages, and the Linguistics Capstone course here at OU. I often feel like I learn more from my students than they learn from me though, so it might be more appropriate to say that OU is teaching me about linguistics.