Current Employment
Employer: University of Washington - Electrical Engineering Department
- Dates of employment: Autumn 2008, summer 2009
- Position: Linguistics department research assistant
- Job duties: Aiding Professors Emily Bender, Mari Ostendorf, and Mark Zachry in the Linguistic Cues of Roles in Conversational Exchanges (LiCORICE) project: transcribing news broadcasts; segmenting transcripts by speaker and story type using the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) tool Xtrans; researching dominance, control, and speaker roles; attending workshops held by the grant funding organization for the project; designing a tool for annotating claims of expertise in Wikipedia talk page data
Previous Employment
Employer: University of Washington - Linguistics Department
- Dates of employment: Summer 2008, summer 2009
- Position: Linguistics department teaching assistant
- Job duties: Independently teaching Linguistics 432 (Sociolinguistics I) for 7.5 hours per week, choosing readings, designing a syllabus, managing grading, writing homework/quizzes, developing lectures and lecture slides, offering at least two office hours per week, answering student emails
Employer: University of Washington - Linguistics Department
- Dates of employment: Winter to spring 2008, winter to spring 2009
- Position: Linguistics department research assistant
- Job duties: Aiding Professor Sharon Hargus in the documentation of two Athabaskan languages (Witsuwit'en and Deg Xinag) by transcribing interviews, writing materials to train native speakers in the basics of transcription, digitizing translations and handwritten field notes, organizing sound files, downloading historical weather data from Environment Canada, charting data in Excel for correlation with speaker personal narratives, and running basic statistics on weather data
Employer: University of Washington - Linguistics Department
- Dates of employment: Winter to spring 2007
- Position: Linguistics department teaching assistant
- Job duties: Lesson planning, leading two quiz sections of Linguistics 200 (Introduction to Linguistics) for four hours per week, attending lectures, managing grading for sections, contributing to exam writing and homework/quiz construction, offering at least two office hours per week, answering student emails, leading review sessions
Previous Volunteer Work
Conference Volunteering
- Manning the registration booth at the Symposium About Language and Society - Austin (SALSA)
- Volunteering at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 2006
- Serving as a member of the Northwest Linguistics Conference (NWLC) 2008 planning committee, abstract reviewing committee organizer, and refreshment committee organizer
Other Volunteer Work
- Serving as secretary for the Linguistics Society at the University of Washington (LSUW), 2006-2007
Contact: what at u dot washington dot edu