I am currently an instructor in the programs in Anthropology and Linguistics at the Metropolitan State University of Denver. My research and teaching interests lie in the analysis of language use and social interaction using the framework of conversation analysis, and in sociolinguistic analyses of language, identity, and ideology within the United States.

I completed my Ph.D. in the University of Colorado's Department of Linguistics, where I was involved with the interdisciplinary program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice. My dissertation research was a conversation analytic study of three non-disagreeing functions of the response token 'no' when it prefaces a larger unit of talk.

More information on current research projects or teaching can be found on the pages to the right. Also relevant: my CV.