Ph.D. Hispanic Linguistics, Indiana University October 2015
M.A. Hispanic Linguistics, University of New Mexico 2009
B.A. Spanish and Economics, Dickinson College 2005
Awards & Honors
DYU President's Excellent Award in Service (2023)
Humanities Faculty Award (2022)
Research Interests
My research interests focus around the study of language and cultural contact. My primary regions of study are Paraguay, where much of the population is bilingual (to some degree) in both official languages Spanish and Guarani, and the United States, where I focus on speakers of Heritage Spanish in contact with English.
Publications
2024 The Influence of Guarani on Gender Agreement in Paraguayan and Correntino Spanish: A Contrastive Analysis. Proceedings of the Linguistics Society of America 9(1).
2021 Jopará as Case of New Type of Mixed Language. Language Contact and Bilingualism. Yaron Matras, Ed. De Gruyter.
