Career Profile
Language educator and researcher with experience teaching multiple languages, both domestically and abroad. Seeking a PhD in order to further investigate the use of educational technology for the teaching and learning of languages. Currently a Fulbright Fellow in Israel. An avid advocate of open science, open source, and open education seeking to make research findings and education materials accessible to all.
Education
- Supervisors: Esther Raizen, Elaine Horwitz
- Thesis: Creating a Frequency Dictionary of Spoken Hebrew: A Reproducible Use of Technology to Overcome Scarcity of Data
- GPA: 3.97
- Minors: Linguistics, Modern Hebrew
- GPA: 3.92
Experiences
- Tutoring future teachers in their English proficiency and academic writing abilities.
- Managing and mentor training for English Club program at public elementary school.
- Teaching English to Chinese children ages 5–12.
- All coursework, preparation, testing, and reporting is done online.
- Courses taught include general English, phonics, “summer camp” English, and TOEFL Primary prep classes.
- Aided students in the acquisition of Hebrew language and culture.
- Duties consisted of inclass feedback, grading, addressing concerns, general course organization, and occasional teaching.
- Research for various projects and publications, primarily the Dead Sea Scrolls Editions.
- Responsibilities included paleographic reading, reconstruction, dating, and analysis of biblical scrolls from cave 2Q, among other things.
- Internship covering all responsibilities pertaining to the student publication Studia Antiqua.
- Duties included the handling of submission requests, faculty reviews, editing, publication, fundraising, and the organization of a student symposium.
- Also responsible for overseeing the implementation of a new online database for the journal.
- Worked with the coordinator of Ancient Near Eastern Studies to organize and manage students, classes, scheduling, budget, and faculty meetings.
- Also coordinated all aspects of guest lecturer visits.
- Taught the afternoon sessions of summer intensive biblical Hebrew (HEB 131 and 132), under the direction of a faculty member.
- Research for an in-depth faculty project dealing with the Jewish presence in Pompeii.
- Included on-site research in Pompeii and the Naples Museum.
- Led to multiple peer-reviewed publications by supervising faculty.
- Addressed student concerns, graded papers and exams, and assisted with general course organization for Introduction to Ancient Near Easter Studies (ANES 201).
- Proofreading, source checking, document organization, and general research for the Chiasmus Collection at the L. Tom Perry Special Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library.
- Research responsibilities included finding, organizing, and suggesting useful sources for academic papers and research projects.
- Proofread and edited papers for presentation and publication.
Presentations
Language Learning for the 21st Century: Interpersonal Communication Through Digital Communities
Texas Language Center: "Language Matters!" Lecture Series
The Effect of Non-English Morphology and Unvocalized Spelling on the Creation of a Modern Hebrew Vocabulary Frequency List
National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL) 21st Annual Conference
Transitional Semi-Allophonic Spirantization in Tiberian Hebrew
Jil Jadid Graduate Student Conference in Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures - The University of Texas at Austin
Lexical Variation in the Understanding of ברא: Homonymy or Polysemy?
Students of the Ancient Near East 8th Annual Symposium - Brigham Young University
Spare [Them] a Little Longer: The Role of Prophetic Intercession in the Preservation of the Lord’s People
BYU Religious Education Student Symposium - Brigham Young University
Publications
Lexical Variation in the Understanding of ברא: Homonymy or Polysemy?
Studia Antiqua 14, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 20–29.
The Sacrificed God and Man’s Creation: Nonaggressive Violence in the Mesopotamian Atraḫasīs
Studia Antiqua 13, no. 2 (Fall 2014): 14–25.