Curriculum Vitae
- Born: October 1983 in Providence, Rhode Island (USA)
- Orcid: 0000-0002-7647-4048
- Download a full CV in PDF format here.
Education
- PhD Linguistics 2014 – Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands)
Project: Dynamics of Language contact in Suriname.
My dissertation The Life of Language: Dynamics of Language Contact in Suriname, defended 2014•01•31, can be downloaded here. - MA Linguistics 2009 – Leiden University (Netherlands)
- BA Anthropology and African Studies 2006 – Rhode Island College (USA)
Employment History
2023 —
current Data Scientist
Uppsala University, Dept. of Statistics
2021 — 2023
Researcher [Adiunkt]
Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
2020 — 2021
Teaching adjunct and project coordinator
Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University (Sweden)
2020 — 2021
Research Associate
Department of English and American Studies, Friedrich-Schiller University (Germany)
2019 — 2020
Project Assistant (20%)
Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University (Sweden)
2017 — 2019
Postdoc
Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University (Sweden)
2016 — 2017
Researcher [Adiunkt]
Faculty "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw
2015 —
Temporary Lecturer
Department of Aesthetics and Communications, Aarhus University
2009 — 2013
Promovendus (PhD Student)
Department of Linguistics, Radboud University of Nijmegen
Contract Work
2015
Reviewing and editing material for the publication Integral Strategies for language revitalization.
client Faculty "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw
2015
Providing scientific support to the project Europe and America in contact: a multidisciplinary study of cross-cultural transfer in the New World across time, especially relating to contact induced language change, in an interdisciplinary project on Nahuan languages in diachrony.
client Faculty "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw
2015
Coding typogical questionnaires for the GramBank project
client MPI Jena
2014
Providing scientific support to the Cognitive Creolistics group. My task was to check coded scores for a set of 30 typological features in a set of pidgin and creole languages, their superstrates, suspected substrates, and a number of unrelated African languages
client Aarhus University
2014
Reviewing, editing, and typesetting the manuscript Surviving the Middle Passage.
client Radboud University Nijmegen
2014
Copy Editing technical (linguistics) manuscripts.
client Brill Publishers
Research Funding
2020
Research grant for project New Speakers of Minority Languages: proficiency, variation, and change
Polish National Science Centre (NCN), "POLS" funding instrument
€191,077 | PLN839,040
reference DEC-2020/37/K/HS2/02779
2019
Short research exchange for the purpose of collaborative research relating to endangered, minority language activism in Europe
Vitterhetsakademien (nomination)—Polish Academy of Science, Institute of Slavic Studies
sek15000
2009
Documenting Kumanti: an endangered ritual language spoken among Surinamese Maroons
Fund for Endangered Languages
$750
Teaching
Teaching Philosophy
My teaching has focused broadly on language in society and language change. I have had the opportunity to teach a range of students, from first year undergraduates, to graduate student research workshops and courses for post-PhD researchers outside of linguistics. As a teacher, I aim to foster students’ personal development through theory driven hypothesis building, guided practical research, and critical data-driven reasoning.
I advocate for and practice Situated Learning, where students acquire skills and knowledge by active participation and practice. A quote from James Gee's 2003 article in Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice adequately reflects my teaching philosophy.
... while you can overtly teach someone linguistics, a body of knowledge, you can't teach them to be a linguist ... the most you can do is to let them practice being a linguist with you.
I teach theory as a basis for hypothesis formulation, but encourage my students to engage in data-driven testing of their hypotheses, then in critical evaluation of the those theoretical bases according to their own conclusions. Whether supervising a graduate thesis project, or taking 15 minutes of class time for students to try a technique they have learned about, I teach from practice and promote student's agency in learning by encouraging practical application of tools and concepts covered in the teaching.
I enjoy teaching courses at any level, from introductory courses to advanced graduate seminars and thesis supervision. I find it particularly exciting to design courses from the ground up. I particularly welcome teaching courses that relate to my research specialization, including but not limited to: language documentation and field methods; linguistic typology and language description; linguistic anthropology, cognitive semantics, interactional sociolinguistics; multilingualism; variationist sociolinguistics and quantitative methods; pidgin and creole studies; diachronic linguistics, especially in terms of language contact.
Courses
2021
Semantics and Pragmatics
(main instructor)
Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University (Sweden)
B.A. students
2021
RM1 State-of-the-Art Methods in Sociolinguistics
(Co-design and co-teaching)
with Margot van den Berg (Utrecht University)
LOT Winter School (Dutch Graduate School of Linguistics)
M.A. and PhD students
2021
Introduction to Linguistics
(main instructor)
Department of English and American Studies, Friedrich-Schiller University (Germany)
First year BA Students students
2020
Functional grammar
(main instructor)
Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University
BA Students students
2020
~~~Linguistic Fieldwork: Data collection and handling~~~
(course design and main instructor)
~~~CNRS-IKER Basque Summer Tutorial on Language Documentation~~~(Postponed then cancelled due to COVID-19
BA Students, Grad Students, and Community Stakeholders students
2020
Language, Culture, and Thought
(main instructor)
Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University (Sweden)
BA Students students
2020
Introduction to Corpus Linguistics
(course design and main instructor)
Department of English and American Studies, Friedrich-Schiller University (Germany)
BA Students students
2020
"English Grammar" — describing varieties of English in typological perspective
(course design and main instructor)
Department of English and American Studies, Friedrich-Schiller University (Germany)
BA Students students
2019
Language Contact: Endangerment, Revitalization, and New Speakers
(course design and main instructor)
Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University (Sweden)
BA and MA Students students
2018
Language Contact: Endangerment, Revitalization, and New Speakera
(course design and main instructor)
Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University (Sweden)
BA and MA Students students
2015
Contact Linguistics - 3 full day “crash course”
(course design and main instructor)
Faculty "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw
Grad Students and Postdocs students
2015
Language, Culture, and Society
(course design and main instructor)
Department of Aesthetics and Communications, Aarhus University
BA Students students
2015
Master research workshop "Contact Linguistics"
(course design and main instructor)
Department of Aesthetics and Communications, Aarhus University
Master Students students
Incidental Lecturing
2018
(single lecture) "Fieldwork in Sociolinguistcs" for the course Språket, individen och samhället [Language, the individual and society]
Aleksandrs Berdicevskis main course instructor
Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University (Sweden)
B.A. students
2018
(single lecture) "What is Sociolinguistics? Introduction to the concepts, goals, and methods of sociolinguistics" Graduate Seminar in Sociolinguistics
Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska main course instructor
Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
PhD students
2018
(single lecture) "Structural changes in three unrelated cases: Maroon Creoles, Nahuatl, and Wymysorys" for Flersråkighet och språkkontakt i svenskt och internationellt perspektiv [Multilingualism and language contact in Swedish and International perspectives]
Satu Gröndahl main course instructor
Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University (Sweden)
Grad Students students
2016
(single lecture) "A survey of the Coppename Kwinti: code-mixing, language variation, and/or language shift" for Toward a world of cultural abundance: reaching globally to revitalize endangered languages
John Sullivan main course instructor
Faculty "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw
Grad Students students
2012
(single lecture) "Anthropological Linguistics, Perspectives on Kinship systems" for Taal en Cultuur [Language and Culture
Department of Linguistics, Radboud University of Nijmegen
BA Students students
2011
(single lecture) "Language Maintenance and Death: the case of Kwinti" for Taal en Cultuur [Language and Culture]
Department of Linguistics, Radboud University of Nijmegen
BA Students students
2011
(single lecture) "Fieldwork in Suriname: practicalities, challenges, and language contact" for Introduction to Linguistics
Department of Linguistics, Radboud University of Nijmegen
BA Students students
Supervision of Students
2019
Master's Thesis by Erik Fau on Langugae maintenance and new speakers of Aragonese.
Academic Engagement
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2021
Peer Review
Submission to Language Documentation and Conservation
2021
Thesis Committee
Review of PhD thesis in Linguistics submitted at the University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
2020
Thesis Committee
Review of two PhD theses in Linguistics submitted at the University of Management and technology, Lahore, Pakistan
Technical Competence
- Operating Systems: Unix
- Office Productivity: Libre Office, Acrobat, LaTeX
- Linguistic analysis: ELAN, Praat, FLEx
- Scripting: Python, Bash
- Statistics: R, SplitsTree
- Database: XML / JSON, SQL
- Web: Django, HTML-CSS-Javascript, Apache
- Virtualization: KVM, VirtualBox
- Audio: digital (Audacity, Ardur, LogicPro) or analogue engineering