PhD in Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin
I am a professor of Linguistics and African Languages at the University of Florida, and I also have a strong background in Romance languages. I do research on the phonology-morphology interface, focusing on morphologically conditioned consonant mutation and its interaction with other phonological processes such as reduplication and loanword adaptation. I work primarily on the Atlantic languages, Fula, Wolof and Sereer, and I am interested in Fula prosody across dialects. In addition to my interests in phonology, I also do work on the ways in which language contact is modulated by societal considerations such as urbanization, Islamization, and (colonial and postcolonial) power relationships in West Africa. More information and links to many of my publications can be viewed on my webpage
Fun Fact: I’ve translated a novel by Senegalese author, Boubacar Boris Diop, from French to English (and I’ve been to Timbuctu).