Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan)

Faculty Member, Faculty of English

About

Hello there!  I'm a Visiting Professor in the School of English at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.  I was born and raised in New Jersey, where I graduated from high school in 1992 and from Princeton University in 1996.  That year I moved to Philadelphia, where I received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002.  After a one-year postdoctorate at Cornell, I returned to Philadelphia and taught at Penn, Temple, and Swarthmore, before moving to Poland in 2007. 

My research interests include

• Historical linguistics of Indo-European (esp. Tocharian, Iranian, Balto-Slavic, Greek, Celtic, Anatolian) and Semitic (esp. Aramaic);
• Sociolinguistics and language variation; language contact; dialect geography; regional and ethnic varieties of North American English;
• Phonology, esp. autosegmental, nonlinear, and prosodic;
• Pidgin and creole linguistics (esp. English-based contact languages of the Pacific); and
• Languages of Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia.

In addition, I'm also an obsessive reader of history and politics, love studying new languages, and enjoy travel, sports, good food and drink, and watching music videos.

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