Bio
I am a lifelong resident of Oklahoma, a Cherokee Nation citizen, a linguist specializing
in tribal languages and sociolinguistics, a first-generation college graduate, a husband,
a father, and a musician.
Education:
- PhD, English, Oklahoma State University, 2015
- MA, English, Oklahoma State University, 2009
- BA, Linguistics, University of Oklahoma, 1999
Native American language preservation & maintenance; ethnolinguistic identity; language
attitudes, ideology, & policy; acoustic phonetics; perceptual dialectology; simulation
& gaming; computational & corpus linguistics; orthography development; usage-based
linguistics; GIS; comp
English composition, grammar, and second language teaching; Linguistics; Native American
studies
Intellectual Content:
- The Ralph Pepper tapes: Overview of a lesser-known Kansa language audio resource (Conference Proceeding), Discovery, Published, 2019
- Two accounts of a battle between the Kaws and Cheyennes (Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New), Discovery, Published, 2018
- Real down-home southern English: Comparing an Oklahomans real and imitated dialects (Journal Article, Academic Journal), Discovery, Published, 2017
- Reconstructing post-verbal negation in Kansa: A pedagogical problem (Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New), Discovery, Published, 2016
- Jimmy (Journal Article, In-House Journal), Discovery, Published, 2019
Presentations:
- A linguistic landscape of Cherokee in Tahlequah, Oklahoma - American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference - Denver, CO - March
2020
- Considerations for the continuation of a Kaw corpus - Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference - Broken Arrow, OK - May 2019
- A quick look at Kanza: Some background, some foreground - 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages: Mvskoke, Kaw, and Yuchi Languages
Seminar - Okmulgee, OK - April 2019
- The Ralph Pepper tapes: Overview of a lesser-known Kansa language audio resource - Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference - Chicago, IL - June 2018
- An acoustic analysis of Kansa vowel quality - Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference - Joplin, MO - June 2017
- Panel discussion on research in and near sovereign nations in Oklahoma - Oklahoma Network for Teaching of Psychology - Stillwater, OK - September 2016
- "At that time, the Cheyennes attacked us": A comparison of two accounts of a battle
between the Kaws and Cheyennes - Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference - Newkirk, OK - May 2016
Courses Taught:
- TRADITIONAL GRAMMAR & USAGE - ENGL 3253 - Spring 2020
- PRACTICUM IN TESOL - ENGL 5183 - Spring 2020
- SEM IN SEC LANG ACQ & TEACHING - ENGL 5593 - Spring 2020
- ENGLISH CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE - ENGL 4992 - Spring 2020
- ENGLISH STUDIES I - ENGL 4901 - Spring 2020
- PRACTICUM IN TESOL - ENGL 4183 - Spring 2020
- METH & 2ND LANG ACQ THEORY - ENGL 4093 - Spring 2020
- LINGUISTICS - ENGL 4083 - Spring 2020
- ENGLISH COMPOSITION II - ENGL 1213 - Fall 2019
- THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS - ENGL 5233 - Fall 2019
- METH AND SECOND LANG ACQ - CHER 4093 - Fall 2019
- FRESHMAN COMPOSITION I - ENGL 1113 - Fall 2018
