Education

PHD | JUNE 2024 (EXPECTED) | THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO

    · Linguistics

    · Concentration: Coursework: Morphosyntax, Research: Sociophonetics 

    · Qualifying Paper: “Does Donald Trump really tawk the tawk? An acoustic analysis of     Trump’s     THOUGHT and BAT vowels”

            · Committee: David Fertig (Chair), Wolfgang Wolck, Abigael Candelas de la Ossa

    · Dissertation: Working Title: U.S. Politicians’ use of vernacular, standard and superstandard

            · Committee: David Fertig (Chair), Christian DiCanio, Karin Michelson

MA | AUGUST 2014 | WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY

    · Linguistics

    · Concentration: Morphology

    · Master’s Essay: “Reduplication in Spanish Affective Suffixes”

            · Advisor: Eugenia Casielles

BA | AUGUST 2008 | CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, ANN ARBOR

    · Major: Religious Studies, English Language and Literature

    · Minor: Philosophy

    · Senior Thesis: “The Religion of Salman Rushdie’s Novels”

Teaching Experience

Spring 2022 - Instructor of Record - Linguistics 205: Introduction to Linguistic Analysis. University at Buffalo.

Spring 2020 – Instructor of Record – Linguistics 110: Introduction to Linguistic Analysis. University of Rochester.

Fall 2019 – Instructor of Record – Linguistics 315: Language In Its Social Setting. University at Buffalo.

Spring 2019 – Instructor of Record – Linguistics 207: Language, Society and the Individual. University at Buffalo.

Fall 2018 – Instructor of Record – Linguistics 207: Language, Society and the Individual. University at Buffalo.

Spring 2018 – Instructor of Record – Linguistics 207: Language, Society and the Individual. University at Buffalo.

Fall 2017 – Instructor of Record – Linguistics 301: Structures of English: Sound System. University at Buffalo.

Spring 2017 – Teaching Assistant for Abigael Candelas de la Ossa– Linguistics 207: Language, Society and the Individual. University at Buffalo.

Presentations

January 2020 – Language and Perception – Invited talk at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Buffalo, NY.

January 2019 – What Donald Trump's 'thoughts' reveal: An acoustic analysis of 45's coffee vowel – Presentation given in the 5-Minute Linguist contest at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. New York, NY.

April 2018 – What Donald Trump’s THOUGHTS reveal – Paper presented at Buffalo-Toronto Workshop on Linguistic Perspectives in Variation. University at Buffalo, hosted jointly with University of Toronto. Buffalo, NY.

March 2018 – Why do I keep saying ‘sneakers’? How I shape my outward identity with the words I say – Invited presentation at Concordia University, Ann Arbor, MI.

April 2017 – Votes and variation: The enigma of Donald Trump – Invited presentation at Concordia University, Ann Arbor, MI.

May 2016 – Votes and variation: Dialect attitudes and the 2016 presidential campaign – Proposal presented at University at Buffalo Qualifying Paper Day. Buffalo, NY.

April 2014 – Reduplication in Spanish augmentative and diminutive suffixes – Paper presented at a linguistics colloquium at Wayne State University. Detroit, MI.

November 2013 – Grammar Nazis, Prescriptivism, and Snobs, Oh My! Social Standards and Spoken Language – Paper presented at the Making Meaning: Language, Rhetoric and Enculturation conference at the University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI.

March 2012 – Grammar Nazis, Sticklers, and Prescriptivism, Oh My! A Reflection on Standards and Spoken Language – Invited presentation at Concordia University, Ann Arbor, MI.

Other Professional Experience

June 2021 to Present - Vice President - Graduate Student Association. University at Buffalo.

August 2020 to Present – Research Assistant – Faculty: Colleen Balukas. University at Buffalo.

May 2017 to Present – President, Board of Directors – Sub-Board I, INC. University at Buffalo.

August 2016 to May 2021 – Director – Mark Diamond Research Fund. University at Buffalo.

Summer 2015 – Science Teacher – AmeriCorps. Delavan Grider Community Center. Buffalo, NY.

March 2011 to August 2014 – ScienceWorks and Healing Through Hands-On Science Program Coordinator. Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum. Ann Arbor, MI.

Grants

Fall 2022-Spring 2023 - Linguistics Department Research Funding - University at Buffalo.

Spring 2020 – Mark Diamond Research Fund – University at Buffalo.

Fall 2020-Spring 2021 – Linguistics Department Research Funding – University at Buffalo.

Fall 2019-Spring 2020 – Linguistics Department Research Funding – University at Buffalo.

Spring 2019 – Linguistics Department Fellowship – University at Buffalo.

Service

2022 to Present - Committee Member - Student Engagement and Success Advisory Group. University at Buffalo.

2021 to 2022 - Committee Member - University Learning Management System Review Committee. University at Buffalo.

2019 to 2021 – Co-Founder and Webmaster – Linguistics Help Desk Lab. University at Buffalo.

2019 to 2021 – Board Member – Representing Graduate Linguists Association at Graduate Student Association Board Meetings. University at Buffalo.

2019 to 2020 – Committee Member – University Bookstore Task Force. University at Buffalo.

2018 to 2020 – Committee Member – Food Pantry Task Force. University at Buffalo.

2017 to 2020 – Committee Member – One World Café Steering Committee. University at Buffalo.

2017 – Moderator – Linguistics Townhall and ‘Listening Event’. University at Buffalo.

2014 to Present – Voting Member – Graduate Linguists Association. University at Buffalo.

Professional Organizations

2019 to Present – American Dialect Society, Student Member

2012 to Present – Linguistic Society of America, Student Member

Language Proficiency

English – Native Fluency

Spanish – Intermediate

Relevant Skills

Computational

Microsoft Office Suite – Advanced

Google Application Suite (Docs, Slides, Forms, ect) – Advanced

R – Proficient

Amazon Mechanical Turk – Proficient

Blackboard – Proficient

Python, HTML – Beginner

LaTeX – Beginner

Praat - Beginner

Research, Quantitative

Stats – Proficient

Experiment design – Proficient

Data visualization – Proficient

Survey methodology – Proficient

Research, Qualitative

Linguistic analysis – Advanced

Public speaker – Advanced

Data presentation – Advanced

Database management – Proficient