Education

In progress	Ph.D. Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Spring 2007	C. Phil., with distinction. Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Fall 2006	M.A. Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (Thesis title: Linguistic Form and Social Action: The Use of “See” in Conversational Interaction)
2003	B.A. Linguistics and German Studies, Summa Cum Laude, Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Summer 2001	Linguistic Society of America Institute, Santa Barbara, California

Current research

In progress	Epistemics in Mandarin Chinese (Dissertation)
In preparation	The Retrospective "See?": Claiming Evidential Vindication in Conversation [to be submitted to Discourse Studies]
In progress	Homonormativity in Action: The Pursuit and Production of Accounts for Non-normative Sexual Conduct

Fellowships, grants, and honors

Spring 2009	Humanities and Social Science Research Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara
2007-2008	Fulbright U.S. Student Grant (Taipei, Taiwan)
Fall 2007	Critical Language Enhancement Award (Taiwan; Mandarin Chinese)
Summer 2004	Foreign Language and Area Studies Grant (Taipei, Taiwan)
2002	Phi Beta Kappa
Summer 2001	Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute Fellowship

Presentations

November 2009	Non-minimal Responses in Mandarin Chinese. 95th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association. (Download: handout.)
October 2009	The Ritualization of Asking and Telling: Particles, Prosody, and Epistemic Rights in Mandarin Chinese. Research Focus Group on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO), University of California, Santa Barbara.
May 2009	A Resource for the Diminution of Rights to Knowledge: Final Ba in Mandarin Chinese. 15th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO), University of California, Santa Barbara. May 16, 2009. (Download: handout, slides.)
May 2009	A Resource for the Diminution of (Epistemic) Rights: Final Ba in Mandarin Chinese (華語的語尾助詞「吧」 : 一種削弱知識權的手段). Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition (CLDC), National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. May 3, 2009. (Download: handout.)
Feb 2009	Epistemic Relations: Two Polar Interrogative Formats in Mandarin Chinese Conversation. Workshop on East Asian Languages (WEAL), University of California, Los Angeles. February 21, 2009. (Download: handout, slides.)
Feb 2009	Non-ethnographic Fieldwork in an Urban Setting. SocioCult, Department of Linguistics, University of California Santa Barbara. February 13, 2009.
May 2007	The Stand-Alone “See?”: Claiming Evidential Vindication in Conversation. 57th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA). San Francisco, California. May 26, 2007. (Download: handout.)
April 2007	Homonormativity in Action: The Production of Normative Gay Identities through Accounts of Non-normative Conduct. The Symposium About Language and Society, Austin (SALSA), University of Texas, Austin. April 14, 2007. (Download: handout.)
November 2006	“It Was Just To See What It Was Like”: The Co-Production of a Normative Gay Identity in Interaction. 105th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), San Jose, CA. November 19, 2006. (Download: handout.)
October 2006	An Introduction to Conversation Analysis. Guest lecture in Language in Social Interaction (Linguistics 170). University of California, Santa Barbara.
June 2006	Linguistic Form and Social Action: The Use of “See” in Conversational Interaction. Department of Linguistics, Colloquium Series, University of California, Santa Barbara. (Download: handout.)
May 2006	Turn-Beginnings and Action Formation: The Use of “See” in Locally Occasioned Informings. 12th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC), University of California, Los Angeles. (Download: handout.)
June 2005	Protecting Sexual Ideologies: Gay Men’s Talk about Women. Research Focus Group on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO), University of California, Santa Barbara.
April 2001	The Rhetoric of Ritual and Avoidance Languages in Aboriginal Australian Cultures: A Response to Kennedy’s Comparative Rhetoric. University of St. Thomas Undergraduate Communication Research Conference, Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Teaching

Teaching Associate (Instructor)	Teacher's Assistant Training, Linguistics 505, University of California, Santa Barbara (Spring 2009)
	Introduction to Language and Linguistics, Linguistics 20, University of California, Santa Barbara (Winter 2007, Winter 2009)
Teaching Assistant	Introduction to Language and Linguistics, Linguistics 20, University of California, Santa Barbara (Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Winter 2006, Summer 2006, Summer 2009, Fall 2009)
	Syntax, Linguistics 109, University of California, Santa Barbara (Winter 2005)
	Language, Gender, and Sexuality, Linguistics 132, University of California, Santa Barbara (Spring 2007)
Grader	Historical and Comparative Linguistics, Linguistics 115, University of California, Santa Barbara (Spring 2005, Spring 2006)
	Language in Social Interaction, Linguistics 170, University of California, Santa Barbara (Fall 2006)