Language(s): German, Dutch, Middle High German, Old High German, Old English, Old Saxon, Old Norse,
Gothic
Area of Study: Historical linguistics; Germanic morphology and phonology; Indo-European morphology and phonology
Awards: Hieronimus Prize for Greek Composition (CANES)--2016, 2017; Pillinger Prize for Latin Composition (CANES)--2016
About Me: I earned a BA in Philosophy with a minor in Mediterranean/Middle East Studies (Classics) from the University of Notre Dame (2011). I received an MA in German from UW-Madison (2014), and argued in my MA thesis for an optative origin to the West Germanic zero-grade 2nd-person singular preterite form. I am currently working towards my PhD in Germanic historical linguistics, and my dissertation project looks at the earliest evidence for the unfolding of primary umlaut in Old High German.