CV

Education

MSLIS	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library and Information Science
PhD	University of Chicago Linguistics Dissertation: Evidentiality in Uzbek and Kazakh Defended with Distinction
BA	Aurora University English Minor: Spanish Summa cum laude

Employment

2019-	Assistant Professor, Northeastern Illinois University Libraries
2014-2019	Continuing Resources Orders Assistant, University of Chicago Libraries
2011-2014	Searches Assistant, University of Chicago Libraries
2004-2010	Student Employee, University of Chicago Libraries, Bookstacks Department

Publications

2024	"Kazakh." Babel, the Language Magazine 47: 46-47.
2023	"A History of State Documents Classifications." LHRT News and Notes (blog). Library History Round Table. August 4, 2023.
2023	"Documenting Classification Systems: A Case Study and Considerations". Library Resources & Technical Services 67.1. https://doi.org/10.5860/lrts.67n1.16
2022	(with Khuyagbaatar Batsuren et al.) UniMorph 4.0: Universal Morphology". In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 840-855. https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.89.
2021	(with Tiago Pimentel et al.) SIGMORPHON 2021 Shared Task on Morphological Reinflection: Generalization Across Languages. 18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.sigmorphon-1.25
2011	Evidentiality in Uzbek and Kazakh. PhD diss. University of Chicago. (Handout)
2009	Exceptional Case Marking in Uzbek Complementizer Clauses. In Bochnak, Klecha, Lemieux, Nicola, Urban, and Weaver (eds.) Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
2006	Noun Incorporation and Case: Evidence from Sakha. In Z. Antic, et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society. https://doi.org/10.3765/bls.v32i1.3475
2006	Editor: Proceedings from the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. With Jacqueline Bunting, Sapna Desai, Robert Peachey, and Zuzana Tomková. Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society. (Main Session)(Panels)

Presentations

2023	A History of State Documents Classifications. American Library Assocation Annual Conference & Exhibition, June 22-27, 2023. Poster, Accompanying Website
2021	Documenting a Call Number System: Challenges and Lessons Learned. Emporia State University School of Library & Information Management Webinar, July 22, 2021. Video, Slides
2021	Documenting and Preserving a Call Number System: Lessons Learned. American Library Assocation Annual Conference and Exhibition Virtual, June 23-29, 2021. Poster
2020	Evidentiality in Uzbek and Kazakh. Colloquium. Department of Linguistics. Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, January 29, 2020. Slides
2010	Grammaticalization without Grammaticalization: the Case of Uzbek Complementation. Linguistic Society of America, Baltimore, January 7-10, 2010.
2008	History vs. Theory: The Grammaticalization of the Uzbek say-Complementizers. Poznań Linguistic Meeting 39, CEG, September 11-14, 2008. Handout
2006	Noun Incorporation and Case: Evidence from Sakha. Berkeley Linguistics Society 32, UC Berkeley, February 10-12, 2006. Handout

Media/Press

2024	Krause, Ben. "Somewhere Between Stacks and Algorithms: Libraries Remain the Last Strongholds of Unbiased Information." NEIU Independent. April 3, 2024.

Teaching Experience

Northeastern Illinois University

2019-	Library Instruction for the TESOL, Linguistics, and Philosophy Departments, for the School for the Advancement of English Language and Learning (SAELL), and for the College of Business and Technology.

University of Chicago

2012	Teaching Assistant, Prof. John Goldsmith, Intro to Linguistics, Spring Quarter
2011	Instructor, Uzbek 103, Spring Quarter
2011	Guest Lecture: “Mixed Languages”, for Jacqueline Bunting, Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles, Feb 22
2010	Instructor, Languages of the World, Spring Quarter
2009	Guest Lecture: “Turkic Languages”, for Kjersti Stensrud, Languages of the World, Feb 5
2008	Teaching Assistant, Prof. Amy Dahlstrom, Morphology, Spring Quarter
2008	Guest Lecture: “Language Classification”, for Erik Levin, Intro to Linguistics 3, May 1

Memberships

2023-	North American Vexillological Association
2019-	State Documents Collaborative Group
2019-	NIDL
2019-	American Library Association CORE Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) Library History Round Table (LHRT)
2017,2019-2021	NASIG
2006-2011, 2020-2021	Linguistic Society of America

Service

2022/23	Co-coordinator, NIDL (Northeastern Illinois Documents Librarians)
2020/21-2023/24	Member, Northeastern Illinois University Faculty Senate Chair, Senate Ad-hoc Committee on Junior Faculty (2021/22) Member, Senate Shared Governance Committee (2022/23-2023/24)
2020/21-2023/24	Member, Northeastern Illinois University Faculty Council on Technology Secretary (2021/22) Chair (2022/23-2023/24) Co-chair (2024/25)
2006	Chair, Morphology and Syntax Review Committees Chicago Linguistic Society 43
2006	Organizer 42nd Annual Meeting of Chicago Linguistics Society
2005/06	Officer Chicago Linguistic Society

Professional Experience

2022	Reviewer Archiv orientální
2020-	Proofreader Language Science Press
2015	Manuscript review Muhamedowa, Raihan. 2016. Kazakh: A Comprehensive Grammar. Milton Park: Routledge.
2010	Reviewer Chicago Linguistic Society 46
2010	Field Research Kazakh - Almaty, Kazakhstan
2009	Reviewer, Syntax and Morphology, Socio- and Historical Linguistics Chicago Linguistic Society 45
2006-07	Research Assistant Prof. Chris Kennedy, Research Project “Parameters of Comparison”, supported by National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago

Skills

Languages
Native	English
Advanced	Spanish, Uzbek, Turkish
Basic	Kazakh, Italian, Russian
Coding and Markup Languages
Advanced	HTML, SQL
Intermediate	LaTeX, PHP, CSS, MARC, XML

Interests

Library Science
metadata, cataloging, serials, databases, character encoding
Linguistics
typology, historical linguistics, syntax, morphology, Turkic languages