Experience

Fieldwork

I carried out a three-week fieldwork project in Ethiopia in 2025 in which I ran phonetic experiments at the University of Addis Ababa. For this project I was awarded a Boston University Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF).

I have also carried out language consulting and fieldwork projects in diaspora communities in Massachusetts with speakers of Amharic and Haitian Creole.

Teaching

I have taught in courses at Boston University including Introduction to Sound Systems and Introduction to Linguistics. The courses I am prepared to teach include the following:

Phonetics
Phonology
Prosody
Linguistic Field Methods
Linguistic Typology
First- and Second-Language Acquisition
Quantitative Methods / Statistical Analysis
Language Contact and Change

Technical skills

Proficient in

R (statistical computing software)
Praat (speech analysis software)
OpenSesame (experiment builder platform), runs on Python
LaTeX (typesetting system)

Languages

Proficient–Native

English, Spanish

Beginner–Intermediate

Amharic, Arabic, American Sign Language

Research

Amharic, Kabyle Berber, Scottish Gaelic, Tagalog, Minangkabau, Haitian Creole

Organizing

I have served on the organizing committee for the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) as a Co-Chair, Volunteer Chair, and Registration Chair. As part of this service I edited the proceedings for BUCLD 47.

Organizing committee and invited speakers for BUCLD 48
(November 2023)