Here you can find an overview of my education and work history as an academic.
For a complete copy of my CV, please reach out to me directly.
Doctor of Philosphy in Language & Communication, Cardiff University, December 2022
Thesis: Lexomancy: Law and Magic in the Pseudolegal Writings of the Sovereign Citizen Movement
Supervisors: Dr. Chris Heffer and Dr. Dawn Knight
Master of Arts in Forensic Linguistics (with Distinction), Cardiff University, December 2017
Dissertation: Truth Language: The Pseudolegal Discourse of the Sovereign Citizen Movement
Supervisor: Dr. Chris Heffer
Juris Doctor, Boston University, May 2016
Honors: Boston University International Law Journal Member (2014-2015), Executive Editor (2015-2016); Altarescu Summer Public Interest Fellow (2014)
Bachelor of Arts in Communication, Northwestern University, June 2013
Majors: Spanish & Theatre
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cardiff University
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Measuring Semantic Salience and Analysing Expressions of Stance in International Public and Private Discourse -
June 2023 to March 2024 - Principal Investigator Dr. Amanda Potts
This project combines insights and methodologies from corpus linguistics and natural language processing to compare expressions of stance in Chinese government policy papers and their official English translations.
An Open Source Enviornment for Novel Interdisciplinary Analyses of Stance in International Media Reporting -
July 2024 to March 2025 - Principal Investigator Dr. Amanda Potts
This project aims to develop a piece of open source software to streamline the combination of corpus lingusitic and natural language processing methodologies used in previous research.
My research outputs can be found here.
My lecturing experience is listed here.
Fellow of Advance HE
Member of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics, the International Pragmatics Association, and the British Association for Applied Linguistics
Communications Officer for the British Association for Applied Linguistics Corpus Linguistics Special Interest Group (BAAL Corpus SIG), 2024-2027
Admitted to practice law in the state of Illinois, December 2016 (license currently inactive)