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Current: Reconstruction of Proto-Flores-Lembata
Summer 2008: Defining features of a language border: A survey of Lewotobi
A language survey of Western Lamaholot and Lewotobi (Flores Island, Indonesia) |
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Research and Academic Interests
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Languages and Cultures of Indonesia: language policy,
linguistic anthropology,
Lamaholot (and other Austronesian languages of the Solor-Alor archipelago),
underdocumented/endangered minority languages of eastern Indonesia
Language Documentation: methods in language documentation, field methods,
lexicography, descriptive grammar, text corpora collection
and management
Syntax: syntactic
dialect variation and change, comparative Austronesian syntax
Sociolinguistics: language contact, language
variation, dialectology,
language policy and planning
Vernacular Language Education: literacy programs, bilingual education
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Education
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| 2006-present Persuing a PhD in Linguistics
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2004-2006 MA in Linguistics, Language Documentation and Conservation
University of Hawaii at Manoa
June-Aug. 2005 Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
June-Aug. 2003 Summer Institute of Lingusitics
University
of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
Apr.-May 2002 Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (CTEFL)
Via Lingua, Prague, Czech Republic
1994-1998 BA in German and Romance Languages
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR |
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| Fellowships |
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2005-2006 Foreign Language and Area Studies Award (Indonesian)
2005 Tuition Fellowship,
Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (Indonesian) |
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| Awards and Scholarships |
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2008 University of Hawaii Arts and Sciences Advisory Council Award
2006-2008 Graduate Assistantship, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Hawaii
2006-2008 Pacific Asian Scholarship, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Hawaii
2005 Graduate Assistantship, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Hawaii |
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Academic Service
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| 2007-2008 Secretary,
Linguistic Society of Hawaii
2006-2008 Co-Director,
Language Documentation Training
Center
2006-2008 Social
Committee Member, Linguistic Society of Hawaii
2004-2008 Teacher
and Mentor, Language Documentation
Training Center
2007 Registration
Coordinator, Graduate Student Conference,
College
of Languages, Linguistics, and
Literature,
University
of Hawaii at Manoa
2006 Registration
Volunteer, Graduate Student Conference,
College
of Languages, Linguistics, and
Literature,
University
of Hawaii at Manoa
2005-2006 Academic
Committee Member, Linguistic Society of Hawaii
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| Languages | 
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| English (native speaker), German (fluent), Spanish (fluent), French (advanced),
Italian (high-intermediate), Indonesian (intermediate), Mandarin (novice),
Lamaholot (novice)
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