I am an Associate Professor in the Deparment of Linguistics at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. My research focuses on the documentation and description of the Austronesian languages of Indonesia, primarily in Sumatra. To achieve these ends, I draw on methodologies from documentary linguistics, corpus linguistics, and data science. The majority of these projects are built upon collaborations with language communities in Indonesia and usually involve training and capacity building not only for members of these communities but also Indonesian linguists.
At the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, I primarily teach courses in language documentation and description, such as Techniques in Language Documentation and Field Methods. I am also the faculty advisor for the Language Documentation Training Center. I am also the Associate Editor for the journal Language Documentation & Conservation and a regular organizer for the International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation.
Education
University of California, Santa Barbara
Arizona State University
Arizona State University