Personal

My BA is from the University of Arizona, where I worked with Malcah Yaeger-Dror. My MA and PhD are from Stanford, where I worked with Penelope Eckert and John Rickford. Before coming to Edinburgh in 2010, I was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford, working with Deborah Cameron and Rosalind Temple. Read more about my academic journey at Why I became a linguist (from a page by Dr. Stephanie Shih)

A random list of other things about me...
  • I'm an adoptive mother who is passionate about family preservation and adoptee rights.
  • I'm a clarinetist (especially contra-alto), a saxophonist (especially tenor), and a beginning trumpet student.
  • I'm a devoted Trekkie: Disco > TNG > Lower Decks > Voy > DS9 > TOS > Picard > Enterprise. (I haven't seen Enterprise.)
  • Tha rud beag Gaidhlig agam agus tha mi ag ionnsachadh.
  • I'm a 5th-generation Chinese American with ancestors who were born in San Francisco in the late 1800s.
  • I'm also 1/4 German (1/4 of which is actually Dutch) with family mostly in the Düsseldorf area.
  • Most of my recent/living family members are from California. I was raised in snowy Flagstaff, Arizona.