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2011-2012 Co-editor, Proceedings of SALT21 [ToC]
Alongside co-editors Neil Ashton and David Lutz, I composed the style guidelines, copyedited paper submissions for SALT 21, communicated with authors and conference organizers, generated web content and made previous issues of SALT freely available on eLanguage. I also contributed to the LaTeX style sheet and created submission instructions.
2012-2013 Editor, Proceedings of SALT22 [ToC]
As primary editor for SALT22, I had two additional responsibilities: training and overseeing junior editors.
2012-2013 President, Cornell Linguistics Circle
The Cornell Linguistics Circle (CLC) is the graduate student organization of the Cornell Linguistics Department. As president, I focused on creating resources to support a strongly collaborative working environment, both among Cornell linguists and between Cornell linguists and other language researchers at Cornell. To that end, I started a number of initiatives:
- A TA database wiki. This is a repository for teaching materials, multimedia resources, discussions of teaching methods, tips on leading sections, and so on. The database now also does double duty as a general repository of resources, such as LaTeX templates, abstract tips and examples, general graduate advice, lists of project ideas that students would like to collaborate on, etc.
- A series of informal workshops on techniques for linguistic research. They are lead alternatively by students and faculty, and are meant to give brief, hands-on introductions to areas such as corpus investigations, collecting syntactic or semantic judgments, getting involved in fieldwork, and others.
- Regular CLC coffee & cake meetings. These are similar to discussion lunches, but feature baked goods, usually homemade by one of the grads. We often talk about topics relating to grad student life, such as "Things you wish you knew when you were a first year," "How you organize your pdfs" and "How you come up with paper ideas." But we often go off script and just socialize as well.
- A dedicated CLC website, to increase our web presence and to be a starting place for people interested in graduate student life in the Linguistics Department.
- Setting up and leading the Cornell Language Research Group, an initiative by linguistics grad Christina Bjorndahl and psychology grad Stewart McCauley. This reading group is meant to bring together grads from a variety of fields to talk about language research.
2012-2015 Co-president, Cornell Tango Club
The Ithaca Tangueros is a graduate student organization which organizes Argentine Tango classes, practice sessions and dance parties for the Cornell community and for the larger Ithaca area.