I hold a joint position in the Department of Linguistics and the Program in Indo-European Studies at UCLA, along with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Classics. My research centers on two main areas. One line of work applies computational phylogenetics and statistical modeling to the study of language change and sociocultural evolution. The other explores how language change informs linguistic theory, with a focus on syntactic and semantic change in Indo-European.
From December 2022 through July 2023, I was a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge and during Easter Term 2023, I served as a Lewis-Gibson Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies. For 2025-26, I will be a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS).
I am honored to be a member of the 2021 cohort of Guggenheim Fellows.
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Ph.D., 2010
University of California, Berkeley
M.A., 2004
University of California, Berkeley
M.Phil., 2002
University of Oxford, Corpus Christi College
B.A., 2000
Amherst College