I grew up in Newton, Kansas and lived there
for the first seventeen years of life. Then I went to Arkansas to
pursue a degree in English Literature at John Brown University. After
spending three years as an ESL (English as a second language) teacher,
I decided that linguistics was the place for me. I like that it is a
meeting of the humanities, the social sciences, and science. My primary
interests within linguistics are sociophoenetics, psycholinguistics,
cognitive linguistics, and phoenetics.
I've been in Hawaii now for two years and I hope to be here for several
to come.
