• Phonological variation in K'iche' Maya
• Language revitalization in Guatemala
• Morphology-phonology interface in Sipakapense Maya

Areas of interest:

• Sociolinguistic theory, language and gender, language and ethnicity
• Mayan languages and linguistics, particularly K'ichean languages
• Language contact, language endangerment and revitalization
• Phonological theory, phonological variation

Courses taught (at UK and previously):

• Introduction to Linguistics
• Language and discrimination
• Language and sexuality
• Sociolinguistics of endangered languages
• K'iche' Maya
• African American languages and dialects
• Phonology I
• Languages of the world

• Language ideology and racial inequality: Competing functions of Spanish in an Anglo-owned Mexican restaurant. Language in Society 35(2): 163-204. 2006.
• Queer talk. Encyclopeadia of language and linguistics (2nd edition), Amsterdam: Elsevier. Volume 10: 316-322. 2005.
• As much as we use language: Lakoff’s queer augury, In Robin Lakoff. Language and woman’s place: Text and commentaries (ed by Mary Bucholtz). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2004: 397-407.
• Models of gay male identity and the marketing of "gay language" in foreign-language phrasebooks for gay men. Estudios de sociolingüística. 4(2): 533-562. 2003.
• The Huehuetenango Sprachbund and language standardization in Guatemala. In Mary Andronis, Erin Debenport, Anne Pycha and Keiko Yoshimura, eds. CLS 38-2: Proceedings of the 38th Chicago Linguistics Society, The Panels. 2003: 309-18.