Education:
• Ph.D. student, Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
• 2010 -- B.A. Mass Communication, University of Central Arkansas
Affiliations:
• 2011-2012 -- Degree Fellow, East-West Center, Honolulu
• 2010-2012 -- Linguistic Society of Hawaii
Work Experience:
• 2011-present -- Web Production Editor, Language Documentation & Conservation
• 2011 -- Co-director (GA), Language Documentation Training Center, Honolulu
• 2011 -- Graduate Assistant, Unit Mastery Testing Center, Honolulu
• 2007-2008 -- Staff Reporter, Benton County Daily Record, Bentonville, AR
Presentations & Publications:
• forthcoming -- "Review of English-Lahu Lexicon by James Matisoff." To appear in Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area
• 02/2012 -- "What is Minority? Results and implications of a language-use survey among university students in Guizhou, China." Presented at East-West Center's 11th International Graduate Student Conference, University of Hawaii at Manoa
• 12/2011 -- "Community Based Website Building: The Language Documentation Training Centers Approach to Mentor-Mentee Partnership." Presented at S ustainable Data From Digital Research: Humanities Perspectives on Digital Scholarship, University of Melbourne
Professional Goals:
With interests in both media and linguistics, Katie plans to pursue opportunities of combining the two disciplines to promote awareness of language endangerment and to contribute to the growing field of documentary linguistics. Her primary research interests include minority linguistics in Southwest China and Southeast Asian border regions, as well as Mandarin Chinese dialectology and language attitudes.
