Education

• AA Honors, Peninsula College
• BA Linguistics, Swarthmore College
• Doctoral Student, University of Missouri St. Louis

Honors

• NSF IGERT Fellow
• Swarthmore Class of 1925 Scholarship

Research

My broad interests include comparative ethno-ecology, systems of traditional ecological knowledge and the ways they can inform conservation strategies, and the interrelations between biological and cultural diversity.

Publications

• (2008) "Written Word, Oral World" in Book of Peoples of the World. National Geographic Books.
• (2004) "Up and Down the Mountain" BA thesis for Linguistics, Swarthmore College.
• (2001) Short articles in "Biology: Macmillan Science Library". Thomson Gale.

Highlights

• Independent fieldwork in eastern Nepal 2003.
• Research Consultant for the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, worked on the beginning of the LTI/National Geographic joint project "Enduring Voices".
• Research, editing, graphic design work for "When Languages Die: the extinction of the world's languages and the erosion of human knowledge" by K. David Harrison, 2007.

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