Education |
| 2007- |
Ph.D. Candidate, Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley. |
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Dissertation: The Linguistic Geography of the Sierra Nevada and Central California |
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Committee: Andrew Garrett (chair), Leanne Hinton, Johanna Nichols |
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Degree expected 2012. |
| 2007 |
Master of Arts, Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley. |
| 2003 |
Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Geography and minor in Linguistics, Dartmouth College. |
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Awards |
| 2010-2011 |
Bancroft Library Study Award, University of California, Berkeley. |
| 2009 |
Dean's Normative Time Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley. |
| 2008 |
Graduate Division Summer Grant, University of California, Berkeley. |
| 2003 |
Reds Wolman Student Research Award, Association of American Geographers Geomorphology Specialty Group. |
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Publications |
| Forthcoming |
Assessing Deep Relationships Among California Languages: A Computational Study. Diachronica. |
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With Thera Crane, Donna Fenton, Shira Katseff, Russell Lee-Goldman, Ruth Rouvier, and Dominic Yu (eds.) Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society. |
| 2008 |
With Charles Chang (eds.) Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. |
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With Magilligan, F.J.and Nislow, K. Channel Adjustments to Dams in the Connecticut River Basin: Implications for Forested Mesic Watersheds. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 98:267-284. |
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Manuscripts |
| Submitted |
What is Null Complement Anaphora? A syntactic account can explain. 47 pages. |
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Presentations |
| 2011 |
Linguistic Landscapes of the Sierra Nevada. Bancroft Library Round Table, Berkeley, California, April 21. |
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Language Geography in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, April 15. |
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With Amy Campbell, Andrew Garrett, Justin Spence, Ronald Sprouse, and John Sylak. Restructuring Access: The Creation of an Online California Language Archive. Second International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, Manoa, Hawaii, February 12. |
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With Amy Campbell, Andrew Garrett, Justin Spence, Ronald Sprouse, and John Sylak. Geographic Metadata in the Berkeley Language Archives, Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 9. |
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A Geographic Approach to the Internal Diversity of Eastern Miwok, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 9. |
| 2009 |
A Computational Assessment of Deep Relationships among California Languages. Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Summer Conference, Berkeley, California, July 18. |
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Null Complement Anaphora: Why Syntax Matters. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, California, January 8. |
| 2008 |
With Charles Chang, Shira Katseff, Russell Lee-Goldman, Marta Piqueras-Brunet, and Yao Yao. A web-accessible dictionary of Southeastern Pomo. 18th International Congress of Linguistics, Seoul, South Korea, July 21. |
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Question Formation in Southeastern Pomo. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Chicago, Illinois, January 4. |
| 2004 |
With Francis J. Magilligan and Keith Nislow. Hydrologic Impacts of Impoundment: A Watershed Perspective. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March. |
| 2003 |
With Francis J. Magilligan, Keith Nislow, and Rebecca Manners. "At-a-Station and Reach Scale Adjustments to Hydrologic Changes by Dam. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March. |
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Teaching |
| 2011 |
Reader, Summer Session, Linguistics 100 (Introduction to Linguistic Science), Instructor: Michael Houser, University of California, Berkeley. |
| 2010 |
Graduate Student Instructor, Spring semester, Linguistics 100 (Introduction to Linguistic Science), Instructor: Line Mikkelsen, University of California, Berkeley. |
| 2007 |
Graduate Student Instructor, Spring semester, Linguistics 5 (Language and Linguistics), Instructor: Laura Buszard-Welcher, University of California, Berkeley. |
| 2006 |
Graduate Student Instructor, Fall semester, Linguistics 155AC (Native America Meets the Europeans), Instructor: Laura Buszard-Welcher, University of California, Berkeley. |
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Research |
| 2011 |
Graduate Student Researcher, Survey of California and other Indian Languages, Supervisor: Andrew Garrett, University of California, Berkeley. |
| 2007-2009 |
Graduate Student Researcher, Survey of California and other Indian Languages, Supervisor: Andrew Garrett, University of California, Berkeley. |
| Summer 2009 |
Graduate Student Researcher, Berkeley Language Mapping Project, Supervisors: Lev Michael and Johanna Nichols, University of California, Berkeley. |
| Summer 2010 |
Graduate Student Researcher, Survey of California and other Indian Languages, Supervisor: Andrew Garrett, University of California, Berkeley. |
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Service |
| 2011 |
Organizer, Language in Space Workshop for Geographic Perspectives on Language Diversity and Diachrony, July 23-24. |
| 2010 |
Mentor (Mono), Breath of Life Workshop for California Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley. |
| 2007-2008 |
Graduate student representative to the faculty meeting, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley. |
| 2007 |
Organizer, 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, April 27-29. |
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Organizer, 33rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 9-11. |
| 2006 |
Mentor (Palaihnihan), Breath of Life Workshop for California Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley. |
| 2005 |
Assistant, Workshop on Identity in Ellipsis, University of California, Berkeley. |
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Memberships |
| 2007- |
Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas |
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Association of American Geographers |
| 2006- |
Linguistics Society of America |