Teaching

Courses

I began my teaching career at the CUNY Graduate Center in 2009 with courses on field-based morphology and syntax and later taught as an adjunct professor at Columbia from 2011 to 2014, in addition to shorter stints at Yale and NYU. In 2015, I took up my current position at Queens College, where I am now Associate Professor.

At Queens, I teach everything from Phonetics to Semantics, basing much of the exploration on the languages of our very own students (e.g. Yemeni Arabic, Sylheti, Tibetan, Burmese, Belizean Creole, Cantonese, Korean, Juhuri, Persian, many varieties of Spanish, and more).

Queens College:
LCD 101 Introduction to Language Syllabus
LCD 116 Morphology Syllabus
LCD 120 Understanding English Grammar
LCD 150 Linguistic Phonetics Syllabus
LCD 220 Advanced English Syntax
LCD 250 Phonology Syllabus Materials (pw)
LCD 306 Semantics & Pragmatics Syllabus Materials (pw)
LCD 324 Linguistic Field Methods and Endangered Languages Syllabus Materials (pw)

CUNY Graduate Center:
Fieldmethods (Spring, 2025) Paraguayan Guarani with consultant Celeste Escobar.
Seminar on Austronesian Case and Voice (Spring, 2020) co-taught with Bill Foley Syllabus Readings

Students

I have served as a committee member and advisor for several students at the CUNY Graduate Center over the years. Among my advisees/co-advisees are:

Shamim, Ahmed. 2021. A Description of the Phonology and Morphology of Kɔɖa, An Endangered Language of Bangladesh. Ph.D. diss. The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Borja, Nhia. 2024. Diaspora Documentation of West Albay Bikol. The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

I have been a committee member for the following dissertations at the Graduate Center:

Meechanykul, Naparat. 2025. On the Ambiguity of Wh-expressions in Thai. Ph.D. diss. The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Macaulay, Benjamin K. 2021. Prosody and Intonation in Formosan Languages. Ph.D. diss. The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Pentangelo, Joseph. 2020. 360º Video and Language Documentation: Towards a Corpus of Kanien’kéha (Mohawk). Ph.D. diss. The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Hughes, Kevin. 2020. The Synchronic and Diachronic Phonology of Nauruan: Towards a Definitive Classification of an Understudied Micronesian Language. Ph.D. diss. The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Olsen, Emily L. 2018. The Sound Patterns of Kachok in the Context of Bahnaric and North-Bahnaric Studies. Ph.D. diss. The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Montoya, Ignacio Lorenzo. 2017. Motivating Morphological Constituents: A Learning-Based Analysis of Hebrew, Navajo, and Spanish. Ph.D. diss. The Graduate Center, City University of New York.