Curriculum Vitae

Download/view my full C.V. (.pdf).

Current position

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies,
     Linguistics Department, UC San Diego

Affiliated faculty
     Center for Research on Language
     Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science
     Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies

Faculty Fellow, International House, Winter 2008

Education

1993 - 2000 Ph.D. in Linguistics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
Dissertation:Harmony, Dominance and Control.
Committee:Alan Prince (advisor),
Akinbiyi Akinlabi, Hubert Truckenbrodt,
John McCarthy (external member).
1989 - 1993 B.A. with Honors in Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz.

Professional experience

2007 - pres. Associate Professor, Linguistics Department
     University of California, San Diego, CA.
2000 - 2007 Assistant Professor, Linguistics Department
     University of California, San Diego, CA.
1999 - 2000 Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
     The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA.
1998 - 1999 Lecturer, Department of Linguistics
     Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
1993 - 1996 Lecturer, Spanish and Portuguese / Instructor, Linguistics
     Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Written work

Visit my SelectedWorks site to access all of my available written work.

phonoloblog

I am interested in promoting discussions of phonology very generally. To this end, in 2004 I started phonoloblog, an unmoderated weblog for phonologists (and any other interested folks). Anyone can join; interested folks should contact me at .

Language Log

I have been a regular contributor to Language Log since 2004. Language Log is a popular language and linguistics weblog begun by Mark Liberman and Geoff Pullum in 2003.

Recent grants and awards

2008 Border Spanish: Sociolinguistic and theoretical issues
     (with John Moore, Grant Goodall, and Ana Celia Zentella)
          UCSD Academic Senate Research Grant ($19,050)
2006 Distinguished Teaching Award
     UCSD Academic Senate ($1500)
2005 "Subcoronal assimilation in English."
     UCSD Academic Senate Research Grant ($10,000)

Contact information

e-mail
     

phone / voice mail
     (858) 822-3206

dept. fax
     (858) 534-4789

snail mail
     9500 Gilman Drive, #0108
     La Jolla, CA 92093-0108

Fall 2009

DGS Office hours: M 10am-12pm

Winter 2010

LIGN 111, Phonology

     Office hours: TBA

Spring 2010

LIGN 211B, Nonlinear Phonology
LIGN 215, Topics in Phonology

     Office hours: TBA



Site last updated: October 2009