EDUCATION

Ph. D., Linguistics.  1992.  University of Oregon.

M.A., Linguistics, Applied Linguistics Concentration.  1989.  University of Oregon.

Peace Corps/Nepal TEFL Training.  Sept-Dec, 1983.  Nepal.

B.A., cum laude,  English Literature.  1983.  University of Oregon.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Professor of Linguistics, University of Oregon.  2011-Current.

    Head of Linguistics, University of Oregon, 2015-current.

Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Oregon.  2000-2011.

    Head of Linguistics, University of Oregon.  2000-2006.

    Oregon Director, Hanyang-Oregon Joint TESOL Program, 2001-2003; 2008-2012.

Associate Professor of Linguistics, Rice University.  1997-2000.

    Master of Lovett College, Rice University. 1999-2000.

Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Rice University. 1993-1997

Peace Corps Volunteer, N/131, Nepal, TEFL Teacher.  1983-85. 

VISITING APPOINTMENTS

Senior Fellow, Collegium Institut d’Études Avancés, Lyon, France.  September 2014-July 2015.

Visiting Fellow, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia.  August-December, 2006

Pesquisador Visitante, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil. 1993-1997.

AWARDS

1991-2.  University of Oregon Doctoral Research Award.

1992-6.  NSF Grant No. DBS-9210130.  Northern Brazilian Cariban Languages Documentation Project, University of Oregon / Rice University.

1993.  Book Award (precursor to the Mary Haas Award), Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas: Comparative Cariban Morphosyntax: On the Genesis of Ergativity in Independent Clauses.

1995.  Brown Education Foundation grant, video: Mechanisms of Speech. 

1995.  NSF Supplement to DBS-9210130.  Workshop in Grammatical Description, held at Rice University, June 1995.

1996.  NSF Supplement to DBS-9210130.  Research Experience for Undergraduates.

1999.  NSF Grant No. BCS-9818244.  Dissertation Research: A Grammar of Tiriyó (for Sérgio Meira)

2000.  NSF Grant No. BCS-9909118.  Dissertation Research: A Grammar of Wayana (for Petronila Tavares).

2001-5.  NSF Grant No. BCS-0117619.  Akawaio Grammar (with Desrey Caesar Fox)

2006. 2006. NSF Grant No. BCS- 0617188.  Dissertation Research: A Grammar of Kokama-Kokamilla.  (for Rosa Vallejos Yopan).
      

2008-09.  Rippey Innovative Teaching Award, for development of the Tomato-Tomäto Freshman Interest Group (FIG).

2009-14. NSF Grant No. BCS-0936684.  Sahaptian and the Evolution of Hierarchical Systems (with Joana Jansen). One of five Individual Projects funded as part of a EuroBABEL (European Science Foundation) Collaborative Research Project: Referential Hierarchies in Morphosyntax (RHIM).

2009-10. (with Co-PI Janne Underriner) NSF Grant No. BCS-0924846.  Institute for Field Linguistics and Language Documentation (Infield 2010).

2010-12.  (with Co-PI Racquel Yamada) NSF Grant No. BCS-0965784. Aretyry Kari’nja (Carib): Training Native Speakers in Documentation, Description, and Materials Development.

2010-11.  Rippey Innovative Teaching Award, for development of the Tomato-Tomäto Freshman Interest Group (FIG).

2012-13.  Rippey Innovative Teaching Award, for development of the Tomato-Tomäto Freshman Interest Group (FIG).

2015-18.  (with Natalia Cáceres & Marie-Claude Mattei Muller) NSF Grant No. BCS-1500714. Documentation of Yawarana [yar].