Prior to faculty positions in Communication Disorders, I worked as a language teacher, a web developer, and a medical Speech Language Pathologist. Early research focused on technology and teaching and involved development of several online teaching sites of non-Western languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, Swahili, Wolof, Sindhi, and Hindi. Research in Phonology focused on functional considerations of phonetically conditioned sound substitutions with a landmark publication on "Lenition". Research in Communication Disorders targets clinical linguistics as it applies to clinical measures of intelligibility in adult populations with dysarthria and to accented speech.
I received the PFW Sigma Xi College Science Teacher of the Year Award (2021), the Pippert Research Scholar Award (2022), the Featured Faculty for Excellence in Research/Creative Endeavor award (2024), and Purdue University's Focus Award (2025). Speech Science invited speaker at ASHA 2024. Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) class of 2025.
Editorial Board Member for Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups 2: Neurogenic Communication Disorders (2023), and Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups 19: Speech Science (2024, 2025).
clinical linguistics, intelligibility, phonetics, phonology, acoustics, speech science