Hello

I am a fourth-year PhD student in NYU's Department of Linguistics. My advisors are Laurel MacKenzie and Renée Blake. Before coming to NYU, I received my BA in Linguistics from Stanford University and then spent a year on a Fulbright grant in Arequipa, Peru.

 

My research combines quantitative and qualitative methods to address questions of language, identity, and community, particularly in Latin America and in contexts of migration. I am especially interested in the ways that bi- and multilingual people navigate and index their identities and community (non-)membership through language.

 

A second, related strand of my research is concerned with Language and the Law. I explore questions about how power is enacted in government language, and about how individuals and communities make use of language in navigating government systems.