Bio
I grew up in Canada on Treaty 6 territory. After finishing high school, I lived for a year in Nelson, BC, on the traditional unceded territory of the Ktunaxa Nation, to study textile arts. Creating with fibre has always been an important part of my life. But I left Nelson to pursue another love: language.
I completed a BA (Hons.) in Linguistics & German Language and Literature at the University of Alberta, then I moved to Germany for an MA in Linguistics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and an MSc in Cognitive Systems: Language, Learning, and Reasoning at the Universität Potsdam.
I then came to Scotland to do my PhD at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Language Evolution. My PhD thesis is called Segmentation, rule formation, and the emergence of generalisation, and in it I investigated a range of language acquisition phenomena from a cognitive science perspective.
In fall 2025, I’ll begin as a Lecturer (roughly equivalent to the North American assistant professor) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. I’ll be joining a teaching team responsible for leading undergraduate and postgraduate statistics courses for students in Psychology.
In my free time, I like to weave cloth, sew clothing, make quilts, and knit 🧶