Curriculum Vitae
Academic Positions
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University, 2023-present
Education
- Ph.D in Psychology (Glushko Dissertation Prize 2017), University of California, Berkeley, 2016
- B.A. in Linguistics (with Departmental Citation & Honors), University of California, Berkeley, 2011
- B.A. in Psychology (with Departmental Citation & Highest Honors), University of California, Berkeley, 2011
Professional Experience
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, San Diego, 2021-2023
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, 2019-2021
Postdoctoral Scholar, Radboud University & Affiliated Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2016-2018
Instructor (Lecturer), University of California, Berkeley, 2016
Selected Awards
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, NSF CAREER grant “Diversity in Learning Contexts and the Emergence of Abstract Reasoning” (PI: Caren Walker; assisted in writing proposal), 2021-2023
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, 2020-2021
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, McDonnell Foundation Subaward “The Nature and Origins of the Human Capacity for Abstract Combinatorial Thought,” 2019-2020
- Glushko Dissertation Prize in Cognitive Science, 2017
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2013-2016
- Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship in African Studies, US Department of Education, 2010-2011
- Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholarship, UC Berkeley, 2007-2011
Publications
Teaching
- Lecturer, Language and Thought, University of California, Berkeley: Summer 2016
- Graduate Student Instructor, Language and Thought, University of California, Berkeley: Spring 2015
- Graduate Student Instructor, Introduction to Cognitive Science, University of California, Berkeley: Fall 2012
- Graduate Student Instructor, Psychology of Sleep, University of California, Berkeley: Fall 2011
- Course Designer and Facilitator, Psychology Publications DeCal (DeCals are officially registered student-led courses), University of California, Berkeley: Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011
- Volunteer Teacher, Health and Environmental Conservation, World Camp for Kids, Lilongwe, Malawi: Summer 2009