What I’ve been up to.

  • I will be participating in two panels at the Georgetown University Roundtable (GURT) in March 2026 — one about scaffolding undergraduate research experiences for all students, and the other about ways of supporting and advocating for support for students’ wayfinding for post-graduation plans.
  • I co-presented a talk about student engagement in evaluating learning outcome assessments with my colleague Aiden VanderStouwe at the 13th Student Learning Outcome Symposium in January 2026.
  • I co-presented a talk titled “Valuing SoTL: Institutional Recognition of SoTL in North American University Policies” at the Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) with S. Raj Chaudhury, Nicole Brun-Mercer, and our undergraduate collaborator Toby Ward in November 2025 in Christchurch, New Zealand.
  • I was an invited panelist discussing “Empowering Displaced Communities through Language and Culture” at the Global and Area Perspectives Symposium at Indiana University in November 2024.
  • I co-presented a talk titled “SoTL Collaboration is Vital for Justice” at the Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) with Catherine Anderson and Kazuko Hiramatsu in October 2024 in French Lick, IN.
  • I organized and hosted Igniting Scholarship in teaching: A Workshop for Humanities and Social Science Faculty at Boise State. The workshop was sponsored by a grant from the Humanities and Social Science Initiative (HSSI) in Summer 2024.
  • This is my seventh year co-facilitating (with the awesome Dr. Kazuko Hiramatsu) a Faculty Learning Community on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Linguistics — we received an initial 1-year grant from the National Science Foundation to do this amazing work, and then got two more grants:
  • I moderated a special session on Teaching Linguistics: A Glimpse into the Future at the 2024 annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in January.
  • Selda Delsooz (undergraduate student in Business Management) and I delivered the closing plenary at the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation on March 5th, 2023.
  • I co-taught a mini-course at the 2023 annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America on Thriving as an Early Career Faculty Member with Dr. Christina Bjorndahl, Dr. Ann Bunger, Dr. Jessi Grieser, Dr. Iara Mantenuto, and Dr. Miranda McCarvel.
  • In November 2022, I began volunteering at the Peregrine Fund’s World Center for Birds of Prey. I have served as both docent in the Interpretive center and am now on the Raptor Care team. As me about birds!