Bio
Originally growing up in Atlanta, Georgia, I completed my PhD in Germanic Linguistics at Indiana University in 2022. As of October 2025, I am a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
My primary academic interests include Phonetics, Phonology and Historical Linguistics. While at IU, I served as an Associate Instructor for Undergraduate German and Undergraduate Dutch courses. Additionally, I spent two academic years in Germany: one in Freiburg as an undergraduate student and one in Marburg as a DAAD study scholarship recipient. In 2014 and 2017, I served as a Graduate Assistant to IU's summer study abroad program in Graz, Austria. In 2015, I was a student at the Taalunie's zomercursus in Zeist, Netherlands (Read more about the zomercursus here).
Recently, I have become more involved in North Germanic Linguistics and I am currently working on a project on the non-minimality of phonological contrast using three examples from Swedish phonology as well as a project on syllabification in Old Nose. In Spring 2024, I also taught a class on Vikings, Sagas and Germanic Literature.
Some of my recent publications include: Vowel Prothesis before /r/ revisited: Acoustics and Typology; Prefixless past participles in West Central German: Phonology or Perfective aspect?; l-rounding in the Dialect of Graz. The latter of those projects is my dissertation project, which investigates the phonetic and phonological motivation for the process of l-rounding in Austria, where front vowels become front rounded vowels when an /l/ follows.
Though my primary research interests lie within Germanic languages, I have considerable experience with other languages, including Sanskrit, French, Spanish, Latin, Ukrainian and Old Church Slavonic. These topics, especially Romance Historical Linguistics, are regularly the topics of independent studies that I conduct with my students at Denison University.