I am a first year graduate student in Linguistics, and an IGERT trainee at the University of Pennsylvania. My interests within linguistics are sociolinguistics, variation and change, phonetics, and phonology.

At the moment, I'm splitting my time between the Penn Linguistics Department, the Sociolinguistics Lab, and the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science.

Linguistic variation is a complex and sensitive phenomenon, and data on it can be brought to bear on a number of different research questions. For example, linguistic systems are embedded in complex social structures, so linguistic variation can be informative about social meaning. My own research interests concern how linguistic variation can be informative about Language itself.