CV
Education
MSLIS | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library and Information Science |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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Teaching Experience
Northeastern Illinois University2019- | 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. |
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2012 | Teaching Assistant, Prof. John Goldsmith, Intro to Linguistics, Spring Quarter |
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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 |
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2019- | State Documents Collaborative Group |
2019- | NIDL |
2019- | American Library Association |
2017,2019-2021 | NASIG |
2006-2011, 2020-2021 | Linguistic Society of America |
Service
2022/23 | Co-coordinator, NIDL (Northeastern Illinois Documents Librarians) |
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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 |
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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 | |
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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 |
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metadata, cataloging, serials, databases, character encoding |
Linguistics |
typology, historical linguistics, syntax, morphology, Turkic languages |