2007, BS, English Linguistics (Minor: Anthropology). Eastern Michigan University.
Fellowships & Awards
2020-2023, DEL BCS-1953103. Co-Principal Investigator with Monica Macaulay. Comparative
database of the derivational morphology of a language family.
2016-2018, DEL BCS-1562774. Doctoral Dissertation Research: A reference grammar of
Potawatomi, A Native American language.
2016, Bravo Award. Student-nominated teaching award, Washtenaw Community College.
2010-2013, Chancellor’s Fellowship. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2010, Outstanding Graduate Student in Linguistics. Eastern Michigan University.
Selected Publications & Presentations
Submitted. Temperature expressions in the Miami-Illinois corpus. To Papers of the 54th
Algonquian Conference.
In press. Applicatives Across Algonquian. In Fernando Zúñiga & Denis Creissels (eds.) Applicative
Constructions in the World’s Languages. (With Monica Macaulay).
In press. Strategies for lexical expansion in Algonquian languages. Language
Documentation & Conservation. (With Monica Macaulay, Rachel Fedorchak, & Vade Kamenitsa-Hale).
In press. Survey of content questions in Miami-Illinois. Papers of the 52nd Algonquian
Conference, ed. by Monica Macaulay and Margaret Noodin. [MSU Press]
2019. Revisiting the Position of Potawatomi in (Central) Algonquian. Papers of the 48th Algonquian Conference,
ed. by Monica Macaulay and Margaret Noodin. [MSU Press]
2019. New words needed: A comparative database for Algonquian lexical information. Symposium on
Historical-Comparative Linguistics for Language Revitalization, June 2019, University of California, Davis (With
Monica Macaulay and Daniel Hieber).
2019. Historical notes on the pound sign (#) in linguistic theory. Annual Meeting of the North American
Association for the History of the Language Sciences, January 2019, New York City, NY.
2018. Fortis and lenis consonants in Potawatomi (and Ojibwe): Converging lines of evidence. Society for the
Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, January 2018, Salt Lake City, UT.
2017. Pleomorphism in Hockett’s Potawatomi. Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History
of the Language Sciences, January 2017, Austin, TX.