Welcome to my website. I'm a linguist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, specializing in the morphology of the Indigenous languages of North America. In the past I’ve worked on Chalcatongo Mixtec (Otomanguean) and Karuk (an isolate spoken in Northern California), but since about 1998 I’ve worked primarily with the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin, helping out with their language restoration programs. I’m proud to work closely with the language activists at Menomini yoU (“where YOU complete the circle”).
I was one of the creators of (and am still working on!) the NSF-funded site Nisinoon, a cross-linguistic database of the derivational components of Algonquian words.
I’m also a founding member of Enwejig, a group of Indigenous language advocates here at the UW. And I’ve always been concerned with graduate student mentoring, and am the author of Surviving Linguistics: A Guide for Graduate Students (third edition). I received the first annual mentoring award from the Linguistic Society of America, an organization I have supported since my graduate school days.
Finally, if you don’t know who Ada Deer was, you should. Please see her Wikipedia page, and read her 2019 autobiography, Making a Difference: My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice.
Welcome to my website. I'm a linguist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, specializing in the morphology of the Indigenous languages of North America. In the past I’ve worked on Chalcatongo Mixtec (Otomanguean) and Karuk (an isolate spoken in Northern California), but since about 1998 I’ve worked primarily with the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin, helping out with their language restoration programs. I’m proud to work closely with the language activists at