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Education
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Ph.D. in Linguistics (5-2001) Focus on Phonology, with additional concentrations in Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, and Phonetics.
Dissertation title: Conspiracy in Historical Phonology. [pdf] [ps]
Dissertation advisor: Donald A. Ringe, Jr.
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
M.A. in Linguistics (6-1994)
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
M.A. in Language Teaching Methods (8-1991) Focus on use of computers in second language teaching.
B.A. in Linguistics and German (12-1990) Minor in Archaeology.
Honors: Graduated Summa cum Laude; inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, Golden Key National Hononary Society, and Phi Kappa Phi; received several other distinctions.
Publications and Presentations
Theoretical Linguistics
2005 Toward a formal markup standard for etymological data.. Paper presented at the 2005 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. [pdf]
2002 An Analysis of *z loss in West Germanic. Paper presented at the 2002 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. [pdf] [ps]
1997. Duration of Onset Consonants in Gay Male Stereotyped Speech. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics. [pdf] [ps]
Lexicographic Resources
Kobayashi, Megumi, Sean Crist, and Masayo Kaneko. 1996. LDC Japanese Lexicon. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania.
Selected Software Publications
Kroch, Tony and Sean Crist. 1999. Trees 3.0 for Windows (A teaching tool for syntax courses)
Kroch, Tony and Sean Crist. 1997. Trees 2.0 for Macintosh.
Teaching Experience
Historical and Comparative Linguistics
Spring 2002, Swarthmore College
Spring 1998, Swarthmore CollegeComparative Phonology of the East Asian Languages
Fall 2001, Swarthmore College.Structure of the Japanese Language
Spring 2001, Swarthmore College.Structure of American Sign Language
Assisted Dr. Donna Jo Napoli by teaching ASL as a part of the course in spring 1996 and spring 1998.Introduction to Sociolinguistics
Fall 1997, University of Pennsylvania College of General StudiesIntroduction to Linguistics
Spring 1998, Temple University
Fall 1997, Temple University
Spring 1994, University of Delaware (2 sections)
Winter 1994, University of Delaware
Fall 1993, University of Delaware
Spring 1991, West Virginia University (2 sections)Medieval European Literature ("Castles, Queens, and Troubadours")
Winter 1993, University of DelawareEnglish as a Second/Foreign Language
Tutored one class during summer 1993, University of Delaware
Taught 25 hours/week 9-1991 to 8-1992 at Kariforuniya Gaigo Gakuin (California Language Institute) in Kumamoto, Japan.
Taught a total of 10 courses in various areas of ESL (listening, pronunciation, grammar, composition, vocabulary, etc) between 1-1990 and 8-1991 at West Virginia University. Students were primarily from Japan and Central America.Introduction to German
Teaching practicum, fall 1989, West Virginia University
Other Experience
Linguistics Department, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081
Visiting Assistant Professor and Phonetics Lab Coordinator (8-2001 to 12-2005)
Cultural Resources Management Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Archaeologist (5-1987 to 7-1987; 5-1988 to 7-1988). Participated in excavations at four sites in the Lancaster, PA area.Selected Programming Skills
Substantial experience coding in C/C++, Pascal, and Perl. Some experience with yacc/lex; Perl/Tk; ImageMagick. Familiar with HTML and with CGI programming.
The preceding resume is the one I send out for academic jobs. Following are items which aren't as relevant for that sort of position.
Non-Academic Publications
Out On Campus, a 135 p. book about running gay campus organizations (1990, ACU-I Publications).
What Straight People Should Know About Gay People, a slide show. Presented at six colleges in PA, VA, WV, and DE, and at two regional conferences of ACU-I Region 4.
DrawMaze (1993, Macintosh application; support now discontinued). Allows users to create dungeon-style games by drawing walls and artwork with the mouse; animation is handled automatically. Behavior of objects in the game is controlled by scripts written in a custom scripting language.
Other Experience
Assisted Dr. Kenneth Sherrill (Department of Political Science, CUNY Hunter) in preparation of expert testimony for two high-profile gay rights lawsuits, Evans vs. Romer and Equality Foundation of Greater Cincinnati vs. City of Cincinnati.
Served on the Caucus for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual concerns at the University of Delaware, Winter 1993-Spring 1994.
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Concerns Co-coordinator, Region 4 steering committee, Association of College Unions International (1988-1990).
President, Gay and Lesbian Mountaineers (student organization), West Virginia University, 1998-1990. Served as an officer 1986-1990. Led the successful effort to include "sexual orientation" in WVU's equal opportunity policy. Wrote several successful grant proposals to fund various projects, including a volunteer information/peer-counseling telephone line.