Education

University of California, Los Angeles. PhD in Indo-European Studies. Concentration in Historical-Comparative Linguistics. Dissertation: Hittite Vocabulary. Nominated to Junior Fellowship, Harvard University. Teaching assistant in sociology.

University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Bachelor's Degree with Individual Concentration in Linguistic Anthropology and Sociology. Studies in sociology, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology; Old English, Old Icelandic.

Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass. Studies in linguistics and sociology.

Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Mass. Prize in Spanish.