Curriculum Vitae
September 2025

2025
Linguistic Landscape Workshop 16
Privilege and Peripherality; Place-making in the graffscape of two neighborhoods in Honolulu, Hawai‘i
(resources coming soon)

2024

ILANSCO (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Landscapes in Language, Society and Cognition)
Revisiting a Bad Study: Map Tasks as Place-Making Mapping Narratives
(slides)

ANU Linguistics Seminar Series
Jalan Avenida: The (f)utility of a critical toponymy study spanning 150 years
(slides)

Linguistic Landscape Workshop 15
National Language Representation and Timor-Leste’s Exclave
(slides)

Sociolinguistic Symposium 25
Legitimizing culture: The case of Timor-Leste’s toponymy laws (with Pelagio Doutel, Lund University)
(slides) (video recording)

Connecting Public Policy-Making Models to Critical Discourse Studies
(slides) (video recording)

2023

Language Policy Forum – London-SOAS
The Revolving Door of Agentive Spaces for Change: Timescales and Trajectories in Timor-Leste’s Mother-Tongue Pilot Program (with Kerry Taylor-Leech, Griffith University)
(slides) (video recording)

Presentation to the CoOL – MPI group (Leipzig)
Jalan Avenida: Ideas, Ideologies, and Issues in Indonesian Investigations
(slides)

2022

Linguistic Landscape Workshop 13
“Who?!” Street Naming Practices in Dili, Timor-Leste from Colony, to Occupied Territory, to Independent Nation, and Beyond
(slides) (video recording)

Sociolinguistic Symposium 24
Politics (of Tetun) in the Linguistic Landscape of Dili, Timor-Leste
(slides) (video recording)

 “Disempowering”: Global development ideologies and the expression of attitudes toward Timor-Leste’s language situation
(slides) (video recording)

Talking about ourselves; Self-referential location information in the linguistic landscape of Dili, Timor-Leste (with Hannah Sawall and Pascal Nabers)
(slides) (video recording)

The Linguistic Landscape of Tourism Workshop, Universität Duisburg-Essen
The Commodification of Tetun in the Tourist Landscape of Dili, Timor-Leste
(slides) (video recording)

2017
Timor-Leste Studies Association Conference 2017, New Research on Timor-Leste
Attitudes Toward Tetun Dili
(slides)

PhD: Attitudes Toward Tetun Dili, A Language of East Timor
Dissertation Report (A4) 1.8M, 70pgs (shorter, non-technical summary)
Dissertation Report (US Letter) 1.8M, 72pgs
Master Draft June1 (US Letter)  4.1M, 359pgs

2016
2016 Annual Conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
MTB-MLE in East Timor and Its Bidirectional Relationship with Language Ideologies
(slides)

2015
4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC)
Planning for Assessment in Language Programs: A Practical Tool
(slides)

2014
14th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology (ICLASP)
Portuguese Word Choice in Tetun Dili, a Creole Language of East Timor
(slides)

2nd International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages
Multilingualism and Mother Tongues in Dili, Timor-Leste
(slides)

13th East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference
Mapping Metalinguistic Knowledge in Dili, Timor-Leste
(slides)