Overview

I'm a Linguistics PhD candidate focusing on the sociolinguistic impact of revitalization programs specifically within Celtic languages and communities. My dissertation research centers the Cornish language community. I also have done some work that focuses on the interactions of gender and language, especially as it applies to morphosyntax. I am currently developing a project that focuses on semantics in this space.

I'm a McNair Alum, which has driven my passion for working in student services and postsecondary advising. I have three years of experience advising underrepresented student populations (primarily low-income and first-generation) on various topics including career advising, financial literacy, and academic pathways.

I have honed my skills in qualitative data analysis and open-ended interviews through an internship at the Smithsonian where I worked heavily on the impacts of Covid-19 on the organization and its employees. I also have used these skills in my independent project on the cultural impacts of pandemic masks in 2020. Other work I have done has examined early English lexicography through corpus analysis.