Education

• 2009 - PhD in Linguistics - University of Pennsylvania

  • Dissertation: The Nature of Homophony and its Effects on Diachrony and Synchrony.

• 2004 - MA in Linguistics - University of Pennsylvania

  • Thesis: Distributed Morphology analysis of the Old Irish verb​

• 2004 - BA in Linguistics - University of Pennsylvania​

 

Employment

• 2023-           Muskingum University - Associate Professor of Global Studies

• 2022-2023   Lincoln High School, Sioux Falls, SD - Latin teacher (levels I, II, III, AP)

• 2021-2022   Minot State University - Professor of World Languages ​

• 2016-2021   Minot State University - Associate Professor of World Languages

• 2010-2016   Minot State University - Assistant Professor of World Languages (French, German, Latin, Linguistics) 

• 2009-2010   Swarthmore College - Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics

• 2009-2010   Notre Dame Jr/Sr High School, East Stroudsburg, PA - Latin teacher (levels I, II, III)

• 2009            Rutgers, Camden - Lecturer of English 

• 2009            University of Pennsylvania - Lecturer of Linguistics

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Publications

2024

• "Forced to force? Remarks on the architecture of the left periphery of Early Irish and absolute/conjunct morphology," (w/Joseph Eska). In The Method Works: Studies on Language Change in Honor of Don Ringe. 179-194.

• Editor of The Method Works: Studies on Language Change in Honor of Don Ringe (w/Joseph Eska, Olav Hackstein, and Ronald Kim).

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2022

• "Breton masculine human plurals, locality, and impoverishment," Linguistic Inquiry 53.2: 371-397.

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2020    ​

• "Non-local spirantization in Breton reexamined," Indo-European Linguistics 8: 254-274.

• Cymraec Canawl: An Introduction to Middle Welsh. Lincom-Europa: München.

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2018             

• "Phonological spreading, voice onset delay, or phonetic noise? Orthographic <φσ> and <χσ> in Greek epichoric inscriptions,"                                    (w/Joseph Eska), in Vina Diem Celebrent: Studies in Linguistics and Philology in Honor of Brent Vine: 35-42.

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2015

• Intensive Intermediate Latin. Routledge: London & NYC.

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2014

• Intensive Basic Latin. Routledge: London & NYC.

• A Syntactically Parsed-Reader of Caesar's De Bello Gallico. Routledge: London & NYC.

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2012

• Grabar: An Introduction to Classical Armenian. Lincom-Europa: München.

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2009

• "A reassessment of anti-homophony in Bulgarian," in Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 16.1

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2008 [2010]

• "The development of interconsonantal laryngeals in Classical Armenian," Historische Sprachwissenschaft 121: 162-80.