Curriculum Vitae

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Education

PhD in Linguistics, University of Alberta, 2010–2015.

Supervisors: Dr. John Newman & Dr. Harald Baayen

Supervisory Committee: Dr. John Newman, Dr. Harald Baayen, & Dr. Juhani Järvikivi

Thesis Title: Climbing on the Bandwagon of Idiomatic Variation: A Multi-Methodological Approach

 

Spring Training in Experimental Psycholinguistics, University of Alberta, 2014. 

 

MSc in Linguistics, University of Alberta, 2008–2010.

Supervisor: Dr. John Newman

Thesis Title: "I haven't drank in weeks": Preterite Shift in English

 

Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Stanford University, 2007.

 

BA Honours in Linguistics, University of Alberta, 2003–2007.

(First year of BA completed at Grant MacEwan University, 2002-2003)

Supervisor: Dr. John Newman

Thesis Title: Ten sons and their father: A Linguistic and Community-Oriented Study of a Dinka Story

 

Positions Held

Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the research unit Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL), KU Leuven. February 2016 – February 2018.

 

Linguistics Tutor for the Services to Students with Disabilities (SSD), McEwan University, Edmonton, Canada. May – June 2015.

 

Administrative Assistant for the 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, held at the University of Alberta, June 23-28, 2013. Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta. October 2012 – August 2013.

 

CILLDI Coordinator for the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute (CILLDI), Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta,    May – August, 2010 – 2012.


Community Linguist Certificate (CLC) Coordinator for CILLDI. Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta. May – August, 2008 & 2009.

 

Teaching Assistant for CILLDI, Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta:

  • Interdisciplinary 311: Language Policy and Planning for Indigenous Language Communities, July 2009.
  • Linguistics 213: Sentence and Discourse Patterns of Indigenous Languages, July 2009.
  • Linguistics 212: Morpho-syntax of Indigenous Languages, July 2008.
  • Linguistics 213: Sentence and Discourse Patterns of Indigenous Languages, July 2008.


Research Assistant for Dr. Sally Rice, Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta. September 2008 – April 2009.

 

Research Assistant for Dr. Terrance Nearey, Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta. April – May 2008.

 

Teaching Assistant for the Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta:

  • Linguistics 100: Introduction to Human Language (Sections: B1 and S1),   January – April, 2008.
  • Linguistics 101: Introduction to Linguistics (Sections: B1 and B2), January – April, 2008.  
  • Linguistics 204: English Syntax (Section: B1), January – April, 2008.  
  • Linguistics 101: Introduction to Linguistics (Sections: A1, A2, and Q1), September – December, 2007.
  • Linguistics 100: Introduction to Human Language (Section: A1), September – December, 2007.

 

Community Service-Learning (CSL) Assistant for Linguistics 324: Endangered Languages. Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta. January – April, 2007.