I am an Anthropologist and a Linguist interested in Language broadly understood.   My geographical area of focus has been Indigenous languages of Venezuela, having worked on Mapoyo (Carib family) and Kurripako (Arawak family). I now have an additional focus on Oneida of the Thames, a Haudenasaune language spoken close to the university.  My topics of interest are varied and encompass both anthropological and linguistics themes. I am interested in endangered languages, language revitalization, language documentation and description, language shift and maintenance, language ideologies, language policy, discourse, storytelling, verbal art, linguistic typology, writing systems, phonology, morphosyntax, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, language and culture, bi/multilingualism, language acquisition/socialization and many other topics!

I also incorporate into my work many socio-cultural topics such as kinship, political economy, religion, landscape, and others as necessary to understand the complex world of indigenous people and their languages.