I'm a sixth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University. I am most generally interested in psycholinguistics and phonetics, but my work also interfaces closely with phonology and sociolinguistics. My research generally addresses the question of how human listeners are able to convert sound into meaning, with a particular focus on the roles of memory, attention, and social context.

My advisor is Meghan Sumner and I work with the Stanford Phonetics Lab. My dissertation (Socially-guided allocation of attention in the memory encoding of spoken language) is funded by an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant. I am also supported by the William Orr Dingwall Foundations of Language Fellowship and the Josephine de Karman Fellowship.