Research Interests: Language revitalization, descriptive linguistics, historical linguistics, Southeast Asian and North American languages, English dialects (esp. Southeastern U.S. and Northern England)

Brief Testimonial: I have been hired by the Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians as their tribe’s first Language Program Coordinator as a direct result of the training in the Applied Linguistics emphasis at UCSB. Though my training as a theoretical linguist enabled me to understand the structure of Southern Pomo, the heritage language of the Dry Creek Band, it was only through my applied linguistics training that I learned to explain my knowledge to non-specialists. The first round of classes which will be held at the Dry Creek tribal offices will make use of four chapters of a beginning grammar which I wrote as part of the Applied Linguistics emphasis.