About

I am a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

My research primarily focuses on phonology, the study of sound-structure systems in language, and phonetics, the study of sound. Additionally, my research also probes questions concerning phonology’s interfaces to other components of grammar such as phonetics, morphology, and syntax. My advisor is Grant McGuire. Previously, I was advised by Junko Ito prior to her retirement.

Before coming to Santa Cruz in 2019, I was at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where I received a Master’s degree in Linguistics. My Masters thesis was “On Subcategorization and PRIORITY: Evidence from Welsh Allomorphy” which was advised by Jennifer L. Smith and explored the allomorphy of the Welsh definite article.

I am also a organizer for WLMA which is a reading group at the University of California, Santa Cruz dedicated to to discussing topics of shared interest relating to indigenous and understudied languages, with a special emphasis on the languages of Mesoamerica, which is currently on hiatus.