Research

Research Interests

  • Indo-Iranian
  • Germanic
  • Anatolian
  • Latin/Italic
  • Diachronic morphophonology
  • Computational & corpus linguistics
  • Comparative mythology

Publications

Articles

  • 2024: “The Identity of pīlu in Atharvaveda Paippalāda 7.19: Vedic Arboreal Terminology and Etymology”, In David M. Goldstein, and Stephanie W. Jamison, and Anthony Yates (eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (October 27–8, 2023). Hamburg: Buske. 21–40.
  • 2022: “Labiovelar loss and the rounding of syllabic liquids in Indo-Iranian”, Indo-European Linguistics 10: 33–87.
    https://doi.org/10.1163/22125892-bja10021
  • 2021: “Rhinoglottophilia in Avestan: *h > [h̃] and Its Orthographic and Phonological Consequences”, In David M. Goldstein, and Stephanie W. Jamison, and Brent Vine (eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (November 8–9, 2019). Hamburg: Buske. 79–93.

Thesis

Presentations

  • “The Etymology of ‘God’ in Luwic”, AnatoLinks: Connections within and beyond Ancient Anatolia, Oxford, December 4–5, 2025, co-presented with Melvin Pötzsch.
  • “New encoding protocols for Hittite transliteration & their applications”, AnatoLinks: Connections within and beyond Ancient Anatolia, Oxford, December 4–5, 2025.
  • “The chronology and environments of *wr > *rw metathesis”, Arbeitstagung of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft, Prague, September 15–17, 2025.
  • “Arundhatī́ ‘Wound-Setter’: Parasitism, Medicine, & Sexuality in Ancient India”, the 235th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Premodern Asia, Boston, MA, April 9–12, 2025.
  • “Minerva, caterva, & sonorant metathesis: Arguments against a sound law by Rix”, the 43rd Annual East Coast Indo-European Conference, Athens, GA, July 1–3, 2024.
  • “A heteroclitic origin of Vedic –yu-stems?”, the 234th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Premodern Asia, Chicago, IL, March 22–25, 2024.
  • “A Marriage of Conveyance: urvárī– ‘bride’ (AV) and Its Etymology”, the 233rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Premodern Asia, Los Angeles, CA, 10–13 March,2023, co-presented with Alex Roy.
  • “A Männerbund for All Seasons: L Māvort-, Ved. śárdho mā́rutam, U S̀erfus Martius, Gr. ἀμαυρός, and H mēḫur”, the 33rd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 12–13 November, 2022.
  • “The Lengthening of *i, *u > ī, ū / __rC in Sanskrit”, the 232nd Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Boston, 18–21 March, 2022.
  • “The reconstruction of *-wr̥-/-wén-stems in Vedic”, the 32nd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Virtual, 5–7 November, 2021.
  • “Morphological change from allophonic asymmetry: Indo-Iranian nasals and directional remodeling”, the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Virtual, 7–1o January, 2021.
  • “A reflex of the Indo-European dragon in Italy: The relationship of Lānuvium and *Déh₂nu”, the 39th East Coast Indo-European Conference, Virtual, 12–14 June, 2020.
  • “Rhinoglottophilia in Avestan: Explaining Younger Avestan *h > ŋh”, the 31st Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 8–9 November, 2019.
  • “Rounding of Indo-Iranian *R̥(H)”, the 30th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 9–10 November, 2018.

Courses

  • (Fall 2025) Old Norse & Proto-Germanic (IE STD 280A), UCLA
  • (Winter 2025) Indo-European Comparative Mythology & Poetics (IE STD C160/C260), UCLA
  • (Spring 2024–6) Language & Evolution (LING M4/IE STD M70), UCLA
  • (Winter 2024–6) Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics (LING/IE STD M150), UCLA
  • (Fall 2023) Introduction to Gothic & Proto-Germanic (IE STD 280A), UCLA
  • (Fall 2023–5) Introduction to Indo-European Phonology (IE STD 205), UCLA
  • (Summer 2021) Intensive First-Year Greek (GREEK 16), UCLA (co-instructor Alex Roy)

Awards

  • 2021: Mellon Foundation Pre-dissertation Fellow
  • 2017: UCLA Graduate Dean’s Scholar Award