I’m a linguistic anthropologist and the McKennan Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. I recently earned a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California Los Angeles. I also have an MA in Linguistics from the University of Colorado Boulder.

My research and teaching interests include multimodal interaction, prosody, embodiment, political participation, and youth language and culture.

At Dartmouth, I am working on turning my PhD research into a book. My dissertation, Language and Student Political Participation in Chile, considers how adolescents in socioeconomically segregated educational contexts come into forms of political participation through social movements. Between 2016 and 2020, I conducted ethnographic fieldwork in two secondary schools—one public and one private. This research occurred against the backdrop of waves of student movements for education reform through the 2000s that helped create the conditions for a massive uprising in 2019 challenging neoliberal policy implemented during Chile’s military dictatorship. My dissertation work combines linguistic, visual, and ethnographic methods to compare discourse and interaction across class-segregated institutional contexts, and it focuses on students’ experiences of the 2019 uprising and other political movements. Moving forward, I plan to incorporate archival research and additional fieldwork to investigate how youth are socialized into contemporary forms of political participation and semiotic regimes through intergenerational socialization practices.