I'm currently an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), with joint appointments in the interdepartmental Program in Indo-European Studies (PIES) and in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC). I received my PhD from PIES in 2017, then spent time as a Humboldt Research Fellow in the Lehrstuhl für Historische und Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München before returning to UCLA.
I specialize in Indo-European comparative-historical linguistics and in the philology and linguistics of the Anatolian languages, with particular focus on Hittite. My research is concerned broadly with the synchronic and historical grammar of the Anatolian languages, and with how these inform our understanding of the rest of the Indo-European language family. Some aspects of my recent research are outlined below; downloadable versions of my publications and conference handouts/posters/slides are available here. Feel free to contact me with any questions here. |
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[ News ]
- 6/20/25: This week I'll be back in Münich (hurrah!) for the 44th Annual Meeting of the East Coast Indo-European Conference. I'll be talking (again) about the ablaut of Hittite hi-verbs in –(a)i- and what these tell us about the ablaut of the *h2e-conjugation in Proto-Indo-European. I also propose a new(-ish) Hittite sound law! The slides are available here.
- 4/10/25: The 235th Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society is in Boston this week, and I'll be talking today about the historical phonology and morphology of Hittite –(a)i-ablauting hi-verbs. Check out the slides here.
- 2/22/25: Today I'm at Columbia University in New York City for Achaemenid Workshop 3. I'm talking about some curious features of early Hittite annalistic texts and what they can tell us about the development of this genre; the slides are available here.