News

  • June 2020

    My paper, “A Grove of Folk Art on Staten Island: Documenting the Carvings of W. Dixon,” has been accepted for publication in Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore.

  • March 2020

    My paper, “Phonesthetics and the Etymologies of Blood and Bone,” has been published online by English Language and Linguistics. Read it online here.

    I received a research award from the Endangered Language Initiative to support fieldwork done for my dissertation.

    My paper, “Burning Feathers: A Hint at Hysteria in a Connecticut Witchcraft Case,” has been accepted for publication in Folklore.

  • January–May 2020

    I am teaching Syntax I at the College of Staten Island.

  • November 2019

    My paper, “Phonesthetics and the Etymologies of Blood and Bone,” has been accepted for publication in English Language and Linguistics.

  • July 2019

    I received a research award from the Endangered Language Initiative to support fieldwork done for my dissertation.

  • June 2019

    My paper, “Grizzel Greedigut: a name ‘no mortall could invent’,” appeared in the June 2019 issue of Names.

    I received the Cairns Travel Award to support conference travel.

  • March 2019

    My paper, “The Grant, the Hare, and the Survival of a Medieval Folk Belief,” appeared in the March 2019 issue of FolkloreFree download here.

    I presented an update on my dissertation, “360º Language Documentation of Kanien’kéha (Mohawk),” at CIRCL at the Graduate Center, CUNY, on March 19, 2019.

    I presented my paper “Some Witch Families in Early Modern England” at the Pearl Kibre Medieval Study’s Pre-Modern Family Matters panel at the Graduate Center, CUNY, on March 1, 2019.

  • January 2019

    I presented my paper “Grizzel Greedigut: a name ‘no mortall could invent’,” at the annual meeting of the American Name Society on January 5, 2019.

  • December 2018

    My paper “Grizzel Greedigut: a name ‘no mortall could invent’,” has been published online by Names. It’ll appear in print in a forthcoming issue. Free download here.

    I received a research award from the Endangered Language Initiative to support fieldwork done for my dissertation.

    My presentation “Phonesthemes and Germanic Word Formation” was mentioned in the conference report by Vesna Kalafus Antoniová in Zeitschrift für Wortbildung Journal of Word Formation.

  • October 2018

    I presented on my dissertation at CIRCL at The Graduate Center, CUNY, on October 23, 2018.