Teaching Positions
Assistant Professor. Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.Spring, 2005-present.

Visiting Assistant Professor. Department of English, Texas A & M -Corpus Christi. 2004.

Lecturer, History of English. Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2004.

Lecturer, Intermediate and Advanced Swahili. Department of African Languages and Literature. 2001-2004.
    
Teaching Assistant, Advanced Composition for International Students. 1998-2003. English Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Guest Lecturer, Tanzania School of Journalism, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 2001.

Lecturer, English Dialects. English Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2000.

Instructor: Linguistics 100, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin. 1999.

Teaching Assistant, Intensive English for International Studies. English Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1997, 1998.

Publications
Books
(under contract). Applied linguistics in the field: Local knowledge and HIV/AIDS. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. (co-editor with Bonny Norton).

(under contract). From dichotomy to duality: Reproducing and reappropriating the language of globalization in East Africa. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

2001. Second language research: Past, present, and future. Proceedings from the Second Language Research Forum 2000 . Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. (co-editor with X. Bonch-Bruevich, W. Crawford, J. Hellermann, & H. Nguyen).

Book chapters
(forthcoming). Engendering responsibility in Tanzania: A critical examination of HIV/AIDS prevention as a 'female' problem. In C. Higgins & B. Norton (eds.) Applied linguistics in the field: Local knowledge and HIV/AIDS . Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

(Commissioned, forthcoming). East Africa. Chapter in Sociolinguistics around the World: A Handbook, Nicole Müller& Martin J. Ball (eds.). London: Routledge.

(forthcoming). African American English, glocalization, and the imagined Hip Hop Nation in Tanzania. In A. Ibrahim, S. Alim, & A. Pennycook (eds.), It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop: Pedagogy, Policy and Power in Global Contexts . Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

(forthcoming). "Are you Hindu?": The intersection of language alternation and membership categorization. In G. Kasper & H. Nguyen (eds.), Conversation analysis and multilingualism. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Articles
2007. Introduction. A closer look at cultural difference: 'Interculturality' in talk-in-interaction. Special topics issue for Pragmatics 17, 9-22.

2007. Constructing membership in the in-group: Affiliation and resistance among urban Tanzanians. Pragmatics 17, 49-70.

2007. Shifting tactics of intersubjectivity to align indexicalities: A case of joking around in Swahinglish. Language in Society 36, 1-24.

2004. Implications of sociolinguistic variation in Swahili for the foreign language classroom. Journal of the African Language Teachers Association 5, 67-79.

2003. "Ownership" of English in the Outer Circle: An alternative to the NS-NNS dichotomy. TESOL Quarterly 37, 615-644.

2003. In search of a profound answer: Mainstream scripts and the marginalization of advanced-track urban students. Linguistics and Education, 14 , 195-220. (with M. Thompson & R. Roeder).

Book Reviews
2005. Cheng, Winnie. (2003). Intercultural Conversation . Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Discourse Studies. 7: 385-386.

2005. Davies, Alan (2004). The native speaker: Myth and reality. 2nd edition. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. World Englishes, 24, 3.

Selected Conference Presentations
2007
Colloquium co-organizer (with Bonny Norton). American Association of Applied Linguistics. Putting applied to linguistics to work in HIV/AIDS education and prevention . Individual paper: Engendering responsibility in Tanzania: A critical examination of HIV/AIDS prevention as a 'female' problem. Costa Mesa, CA, April 20-25, 2007.

Co-presenter. Raising critical language awareness through research and community activism: Da Pidgin Coup at UH-Manoa. Paper accepted for presentation at the International Society for Language Studies annual conference, Honolulu, April 2-4, 2007.

Deciphering Discourses of Disease: Assessing AIDS Education in Tanzania. Paper accepted for presentation at the International Society for Language Studies annual conference, Honolulu, April 2-4, 2007.

Colloquium Organizer (invited). International Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference. Negotiating the self in another language: Discourse approaches to language learning as cross cultural adaptation. Individual paper: Cross-cultural adaptation in Swahili as a second language among Western women. Honolulu, March 26-28, 2007.

Co-presenter. Does Pidgin have a place in our classrooms? Paper presented at the 6th annual Showcase of Promising Practices (Gear Up Hawaii). February 27, 2007, Honolulu.

2006
English as Gatekeeper, or English for Globalization?: Obstacles to implementing the WE agenda in Japan and Korea. The International Association for World Englishes, Chukyo University, Nagoya, Japan, October 8, 2006.

Crossing or Appropriation?: African American English, Glocalization, and the Imagined Communities of Hip Hop Culture among East African Youths. Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Eugene, OR, April 7, 2006.

2005
“Najaribu kumaintain figure”: (‘I try to maintain my figure’) Discourses of global body images via global English. Paper presented at the International Association of World Englishes conference, Purdue University, July 22, 2005.

A closer look at cultural difference: 'Interculturality' in talk-in-interaction. (Colloquium co-organizer). AILA , Madison, WI, July 25, 2005.

Globalization or glocalization?: African American English in Kiswahili. International Symposium on Kiswahili and Globalization, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, July 3-8, 2005.

2004
AAVE returns to Africa: 'Black English' among Tanzanian youth. Poster presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Portland, May 3, 2004.

Teaching language and culture through humor: Using cartoons in the Swahili classroom. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the African Language Teachers' Association, Madison, WI, April 29-May 1, 2004.

2003
The discourse of globalization as a rationale for English in Africa. Presented at Towards an Africa without Borders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 25, 2003.

The role of English-Swahili bilingual conversation among elites. Presented at the International Pragmatics Association Conference, Toronto, July 19, 2003.

The hegemony of English in Tanzania: Discourses of globalization from interview data. Presented at the World Conference on African Linguistics, June 21, 2003.

Swahili-English bilingual conversation: One language or two? Presented at the International Symposium on Bilingualism, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, May 2, 2003.

'Are you Hindu?': How social identity is constructed and contested through religious member categorization devices. Presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics conference, Arlington, Virginia, March 25, 2003.

Awards
University of Hawaii Research Relations Fund. Summer Travel Grant to Tanzania ($5000) - 2006

University of Hawaii College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literatures. Research funding for Tanzania ($2000) - 2006

University of Hawaii Research Relations Fund. Summer Travel Grant to Tanzania ($5000) - 2005

University of Wisconsin-Madison Vilas Travel Award ($600) Graduate Student Council- 2003-2004

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Small Project Grant ($2800), Global Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Forum - Summer, 2003

University of Wisconsin-Madison Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship ($2000) (for Gujarati) - Summer, 2003

University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, Humanities Division ($6200) - Spring, 2003

University of Wisconsin-Madison Fellow, Technology in the Humanities Program ($500) - 2002-2003

University of Wisconsin-Madison Vilas Travel Award ($600), Graduate Student Council, (for dissertation research) - Spring, 2001

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Guy-Lohman Award, Department of English, ($1000) (for dissertation research) - Spring, 2001

Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Fellowship ($6200) (Tanzania) - Summer, 1998

Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship ($2000) (Swahili), - Summer, 1998

Service
2007. Co-convener, Pidgin Coup, Sato Center for Pidgin and Creole Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

2005-present. Manuscript reviewer for TESOL Quarterly, Applied Linguistics, Language Policy, and Modern Language Journal .

2005-present. Member, Applied Linguistics in Africa Interest Group, American Association of Applied Linguistics.

2005-2006. Organizer, Weekly Lecture Series, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

2003-present. Abstract reviewer for annual conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics.

2002-2003. Technology Fellow, Technology Fellows in the Humanities Program, UW-Madison

1999-2000. President, Applied Linguistics Student Association, (UW-Madison)

1999-2000. Organizer, Applied Linguistics Colloquium (UW-Madison)

Conference Organization
Program chair, Towards an Africa without Borders Conference (UW-Madison, October, 2003)

Co-chair, Second Language Research Forum 2000 (held at UW-Madison, September, 2000)     

Language Competence
English (L1), Swahili (advanced proficiency), Spanish (intermediate proficiency), Gujarati (basic proficiency), Hindi and Urdu (basic proficiency), French (reading knowledge only), Hawaiian (beginner)