Hi! I’m Ty.

I am a linguistic anthropologist interested in how people draw on multimodal linguistic, embodied, and material resources in interaction to co-construct meaning and coordinate political action. My work includes more than a decade of ethnographic research on adolescent democratic participation in Chile, as well as studies of youth language and culture in the United States.

Currently, I’m a postdoc at Dartmouth College, where I’m part of the Cognitive Science Program and the SCRAP Lab in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. I have a PhD in Anthropology from UCLA and an MA in Linguistics from the University of Colorado.

I’m working on a book manuscript, Political Signs: Language and Student Movements in Chile, which builds on my PhD dissertation on student political participation in Santiago secondary schools. As the McKennan Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology at Dartmouth, I extended this research to student movements during Chile’s military dictatorship.