EDUCATION

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, German & Applied Linguistics, August 2011

Dissertation: “Religious Identity and Language Shift among the Amish-Mennonites in Kishacoquillas Valley, Pennsylvania”

B.A., Millersville University, German, May 2004

Graduated Magna Cum Laude, Minored in Russian and Latin, Study abroad: Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany

APPOINTMENTS

Professor of German & Linguistics, 2021-present, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Associate Professor of German (tenured), 2016-2021, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire

Assistant Professor of German (tenure-track), 2011-2016, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire

Affiliate faculty in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, 2011-2022 (program reconceptualized), University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire

Collections processing assistant, 2007-2011, University Archives, Pennsylvania State University

Research assistant, 2002-2004, Research Institute for the German Language, Deutscher Sprachatlas

Research assistant, 2000-2004, Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, Millersville University

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Raymond & Tamara Skwierczynski University Fellow of Languages, 2023, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, $37,500

Faculty Excellence in Scholarship Award, 2022, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, $1500

Center for Humanities Digital Humanities Grant, 2022, Pennsylvania State University, with Michael T. Putnam and Stefanie Wulff, $6424

P. B. Poorman Award, 2021, Award given annually within the University of Wisconsin System for outstanding achievement on behalf of LGBTQ+ people

Kreider Fellowship, 2019, Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania, Research residency, $5500

Joseph Horner Fellowship, 2016, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., Research residency, $3500

International Fellowship, 2016, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, Research residency in Berlin, Germany, $12690

German Embassy Teacher of Excellence Award, 2014, Three awarded annually by the American Association of Teachers of German

Internal Collaborative Research Grants, 2011-present, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, Faculty-student research funding, $49398 (total of several smaller grants)

PUBLICATIONS

Books & edited journal issues

(1) Brown, Joshua R. (ed.). 2022. The verticalization model of language shift: The Great Change in American communities. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

(2) Biers, Kelly & Joshua R. Brown. 2022. Selected proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

(3) Brown, Joshua R. (ed.). 2019. Heritage language ego-documents: From home, from away, and from below. Special issue of Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 5(2).

(4) Biers, Kelly & Joshua R. Brown. 2019. Selected proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

(5) Bousquette, Joshua and Joshua R. Brown (eds.). 2018. Heritage and immigrant languages in the Americas: Formal linguistic approaches. Special issue of Journal of Language Contact 11(3).

(6) Brown, Joshua R. & Joshua Bousquette (eds.). 2018. Heritage and immigrant languages in North America: Sociolinguistic approaches. Special issue of Journal of Language Contact 11(2).

(7) Bronner, Simon J. & Joshua R. Brown (eds.). 2017. Pennsylvania Germans: An Interpretive Encyclopedia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

(8) Madenford, Douglas J. & Joshua R. Brown. 2009 (2017, 2nd edn.). Schwetz mol Deitsch: An introductory Pennsylvania Dutch course. Morgantown, PA: Masthof Press.

(9) Brown, Joshua R. & Leroy T. Hopkins (eds.). 2006. Preserving heritage: Festschrift for C. Richard Beam. Supplemental issue of Yearbook of German–American Studies 2.

(10) Beam, C. Richard & Joshua R. Brown (eds.). 2005. The comprehensive Pennsylvania German dictionary: Volume 2 - B. Millersville, PA: Center for Pennsylvania German Studies.

(11) Beam, C. Richard & Joshua R. Brown (eds.). 2004. The comprehensive Pennsylvania German dictionary: Volume 1 - A. Millersville, PA: Center for Pennsylvania German Studies.

(12) Bousquette, Joshua, Joshua R. Brown, Michael T. Putnam & Joseph Salmons. Under contract. The linguistic diversity of German. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

(13) Auer, Anita, Joshua R. Brown & Angela Hoffman. Under contract. Historical sociolinguistic studies of language islands in the Americas: Tracing the development from immigrant languages to postvernacularity. Leiden: Brill.

Journal Publications (refereed)

(1) Brown, Joshua, Tristan Devick & Connor Zielinski. 2021. A culturally relevant approach to food customs in the German curriculum. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 54 (2): 181–199.

(2) Brown, Joshua R. 2020. Writing about Amish women and singlehood. Culture and Religion 20 (4): 371–389.

(3) Brown, Joshua R. 2019. Somali refugees and their urban and non-urban linguistic landscapes. Critical Multilingualism Studies 7 (3): 77–91.

(4) Brown, Joshua R. 2019. Civil War writings of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 5 (2): 20180032.

(5) Brown, Joshua R. 2019. The changing sociolinguistic identities of the Beachy Amish-Mennonites in Big Valley, Pennsylvania. Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies 7 (1): 19–31.

(6) Brown, Joshua R. & Benjamin Carpenter. 2018. Heritage Somali and identity in Barron, Wisconsin. Journal of Language Contact 11 (2): 348–371.

(7) Brown, Joshua R. 2017. Language maintenance among the Hutterites. Yearbook of German-American Studies 52: 151–168.

(8) Brown, Joshua R. 2015. Dutchified English on Broadway. American Speech 90 (3): 321–346.

(9) Lindseth, Martina & Joshua R. Brown. 2014. Making study abroad meaningful, intentional, experiential, and transformative. Language Educator 9 (4): 24–6.

(10) Lindseth, Martina & Joshua R. Brown. 2014. An uplifting experience: A course sequence designed to facilitate proficiency development. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 47 (1): 49-–5.

(11) Brown, Joshua R. & Beate Brunow. 2012. Portfolio assessment in college-level business German courses. German as a Foreign Language 1: 93–117.

(12) Brown, Joshua R. 2011. No Homo. Journal of Homosexuality 58 (3): 299–314.

(13) Page, B. Richard & Joshua R. Brown. 2006. The Big Valley oral history project: Language attitudes toward Pennsylvania German in Big Valley. Yearbook of German-American Studies 41: 131–146.

Chapters and Essays (invited/refereed)

(1) Brown, Joshua R. & Joseph Salmons. 2022. A verticalization theory of language shift. In Joshua R. Brown (ed.), The verticalization model of language shift: The Great Change in American communities, 1–24. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

(2) Brown, Joshua R. 2022. Language and Religious Shift in Central Pennsylvania. In Joshua R. Brown (ed.), The verticalization model of language shift: The Great Change in American communities, 114–138. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

(3) Brown, Joshua R. 2019. Heritage language ego-documents: From home, from away, and from below. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 5: 20190023.

(4) Brown, Joshua R. & Rachyl Hietpas. 2019. Postvernacular Dutch in Wisconsin. In Kelly Biers & Joshua R. Brown (eds.), Selected proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, 72–82. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

(5) Bousquette, Joshua & Joshua R. Brown. 2018. Heritage languages in North America: Formal linguistic approaches. Journal of Language Contact 11 (3): 373–378.

(6) Brown, Joshua R. & Joshua Bousquette. 2018. Heritage languages in North America: Sociolinguistic approaches. Journal of Language Contact 11 (2): 201–207.

(7) Brown, Joshua R. 2017. Gendered stories, advice, and narrative intimacy in Amish young adult literature.” In Tricia Clasen & Holly Hassel (eds.), Gender(ed) identities: critical readings of gender in children’s and young adult literature, 87–101. Routledge.

(8) Bronner, Simon J. & Joshua R. Brown. 2017. Pennsylvania German studies. In Simon Bronner & Joshua R. Brown (eds.), Pennsylvania Germans: An interpretive encyclopedia, 1–17. Johns Hopkins University Press.

(9) Johnson-Weiner, Karen M. & Joshua R. Brown. 2017. The Amish. In Simon Bronner & Joshua R. Brown (eds.), Pennsylvania Germans: An interpretive encyclopedia, 148–163. Johns Hopkins University Press.

(10) Brown, Joshua R. 2016. American literary regionalism and the authenticity of place: Reading Rosanna. Center for Mennonite Writing Journal 8 (1).

(11) Brown, Joshua R. & Michael Putnam. 2015. Functional convergence and extension in contact: Syntactic and semantic attributes of the progressive aspect in Pennsylvania Dutch. In Janne Bondi Johannessen & Joseph C. Salmons (eds.), German Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, Attrition, and Change, 135–160. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

(12) Brown, Joshua R. 2010. An Amish mortuary ritual at the intersection of cultural anthropology and lexicography. Supplemental issue, Yearbook of German-American Studies 3: 85–100.

(13) Jóhannsdóttir, Kristín & Joshua R. Brown. In press. The Icelanders of Manitoba. In Anita Auer, Joshua R. Brown & Angela Hoffman, In Historical sociolinguistics studies of heritage languages in the Americas. Leiden: Brill.

(14) Hoffman, Angela & Joshua R. Brown. In press. The path of transmission from immigrant Swedish to postvernacularity. In Anita Auer, Joshua R. Brown & Angela Hoffman, In Historical sociolinguistics studies of heritage languages in the Americas. Leiden: Brill.

(15) Brown, Joshua R. & Luca Ciletti. In press. Heritage German across Generations in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. In B. Richard Page & Michael T. Putnam, Festschrift. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

(16) Brown, Joshua R. & Michael T. Putnam. In press. Language shift, obsolescence, and death. In Edith Aldridge, Anne Breitbarth, Katalin É. Kiss, Adam Ledgeway, Joseph Salmons & Alexandra Simonenko (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell companion to diachronic linguistics. London: Wiley Blackwell

(17) Bousquette, Joshua & Joshua R. Brown. In press. Language maintenance and language shift among heritage languages in North America. In Jeroen Darquennes, Joseph Salmons & Wim Vandenbussche, Language contact. Berlin: de Gruyter.

(18) Brown, Joshua R. & Nora Vosburg. In press. Social factors in language shift. In Joshua Bousquette & Simon Pickl, Oxford handbook of the German language. Oxfrord: Oxford University Press.

PUBLIC OUTREACH MEDIA

(1) Brown, Joshua R. 2023. Spargelzeit. Duolingo learning blog.

(2) Brown, Joshua R. 2023. Why does the word for ‘butterfly’ in German get so much attention? Duolingo learning blog.

(3) Brown, Joshua R. 2022. Highs, lows, and golden horns in the history of German. Duolingo learning blog.

(4) Brown, Joshua R. & Norah Airth-Kindree. 2019. Understanding Amish culture and healthcare. The ideas network, Wisconsin Public Radio.

(5) Brown, Joshua R. 2019. Somalis in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Englishes Project.

PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES

(1) Brown, Joshua R. 2024. “The materiality of language ecology.” Invited lecture at Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden, May 22.

(2) Brown, Joshua R. 2024. “Postvernacular Pennsylvania Dutch.” Society for German American Studies Symposium, University of Texas at Austin, April 4-6.

(3) Brown, Joshua R. 2023. “Fieldwork ethics and undergraduate research.” Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, Banff, Alberta, April 20-22.

(4) Brown, Joshua R. 2022. “Celebrating Mountain Mary: The art of folk craft.” Invited lecture at the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, November 20.

(5) Brown, Joshua R. 2022. “Civil War writings of the Pennsylvania Dutch.” Invited lecture at the Schwenkfelder Heritage Center and Library, Pennsburg, PA, November 18.

(6) Brown, Joshua R., and Angela Hoffman. 2022. “Ethnographies of language and music in language shift.” Poster presented at the 12th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 10–12

(7) Brown, Joshua R. 2022. “German-American multilingualism: New ways of using old evidence.” Invited lecture, Max Kade Center, IUPUI, October 7.

(8) Brown, Joshua. R. 2022. “Murder most multilingual: At the crossroads of forensic linguistics and historical sociolinguistics.” Plenary address, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 27 at University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. March 31–April 2.

(9) Hoffman, Angela, and Joshua R. Brown. 2021. “Ideology and Språkfrågan: Paths leading to language shift in four Swedish-American congregations.” Paper presented at the 12th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, University of Helsinki, October 6–9.

(10) Brown, Joshua. R. 2021. “Verticalization processes in American heritage language communities.” Invited paper presented as part of a panel on Different Perspectives on Language Maintenance and Shift: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches, Universität Regensburg.

(11) Brown, Joshua. R. 2020. “Creating language programs that recruit and retain.” Invited paper presented to the Department of French and Italian and the Department of German, University of Texas at Austin.

(12) Brown, Joshua. R. 2020. “Last stages of language shift: Pennsylvania Dutch as a heritage language.” Invited paper presented to the Department of Linguistics, University of Georgia.

(13) Brown, Joshua. R., and Angela Hoffman. 2020. “Heritage Swedish across the lifespan in a Minnesota family.” Paper presented at the 11th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, University of North Carolina–Asheville.

(14) Brown, Joshua. R. 2019. “Heritage language shift in Amish Appalachia.” Invited paper presented to the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University, Sweden.

(15) Brown, Joshua. R. 2019. “Marketing and programming.” Paper presented as part of a panel discussion “R & R: How to Recruit and Retain Post-Secondary Students” at the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers Conference, Appleton, WI.

(16) Brown, Joshua. R. 2019. “The diachronicity of Minneapolis's heritage linguistic landscape.” Paper presented at the 10th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, Østfold University College, Halden, Norway.

(17) Brown, Joshua. R. 2019. “Primary documents and the Wisconsin Idea.” Paper presented as part of a panel discussion “Making Primary Documents Accessible” at the Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies, Madison, WI.

(18) Brown, Joshua. R. 2019. “Heritage language ego-documents: Letters that didn't cross the Atlantic.” Paper presented at the Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies, Madison, WI.

(19) Brown, Joshua. R. 2019. “Recruitment and retention for university language programs.” Invited paper presented at Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT.

(20) Brown, Joshua. R. 2019. “Amish identities in changing contexts.” Invited paper presented at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA.

(21) Brown, Joshua. R., Jillian Kresen, and Hannah Schneeman. 2018. “Beyond the tourist's Berlin.” Poster presented at the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers Conference, Appleton, WI.

(22) Hietpas, Rachyl, and Joshua R. Brown. 2018. “Postvernacular Dutch in Wisconsin.” Poster presented at the 9th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, Eau Claire, WI.

(23) Brown, Joshua. R. 2018. “Multilingualism in 19th century Pennsylvania.” Invited paper presented as part of the tenth anniversary celebrations of the Center for Language Science, The Pennsylvania State University.

(24) Brown, Joshua R, Tristan Devick, and Connor Zielinski. 2017. “Inclusive pedagogy in the L2 classroom.” Paper presented at the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers Conference, Appleton, WI.

(25) Brown, Joshua R. 2017. “Culturally relevant pedagogy in the classroom.” Invited Arts & Sciences Diversity Lecture at Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.

(26) Brown, Joshua R. 2017. “Pennsylvania High German in the 19th century.” Paper presented at the Eighth Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, University of Copenhagen.

(27) Brown, Joshua R. 2017. “The relevance of social and cultural histories in understanding heritage language shift.” Paper presented at the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics, University of Kentucky.

(28) Brown, Joshua R. 2016. “Culturally responsive pedagogy and diversity for the German classroom.” Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Boston.

(29) Brown, Joshua R., and Martina Lindseth. 2015. “Recipe for Growth: Reform, Recruitment, Retention.” Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, San Diego.

(30) Lindseth, Martina, and Joshua R. Brown. 2014. “Keeping Students on Task: How to Facilitate Meaningful Cultural Exchange.” Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, San Antonio.

(31) Lindseth, Martina, and Joshua R. Brown. 2014. “Engaging with the Host Culture During Study Abroad.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers, Appleton.

(32) Brown, Joshua R., and Lara Steinike. 2014. “Targeting Higher Level Proficiencies in L2 Writing.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers, Appleton.

(33) Brown, Joshua R. 2013. “Amish-Mennonite Religious Change and Language Shift.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association, New York.

(34) Brown, Joshua R. 2013. “Negotiating Plainness among Amish and Mennonites in Clark County, Wisconsin.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Friends of Max Kade, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

(35) Lindseth, Martina, and Joshua R. Brown. 2012. “An Uplifting Experience: Fostering Metalinguistic Awareness for Proficiency Development.” Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Philadelphia.

(36) Brown, Joshua R., and Douglas J. Madenford. 2012. “Preserving an Ethnic Language Through Teaching.” Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Philadelphia.

(37) Brown, Joshua R., Kelsey Freymiller, and Benjamin Gordon. 2012. “Teaching Culture with the Soap Opera Lindenstraße.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers, Appleton.

(38) Brown, Joshua R., and Michael Putnam. 2012. “Constraints on Syntax-semantic Variance in Language Contact.” Paper presented at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 18, Indiana University, Bloomington.

(39) Brown, Joshua R. 2012. “Language Maintenance and Shift in Negotiating Religious Identity.” Paper presented at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 18, Indiana University, Bloomington.

(40) Brown, Joshua R. 2012. “Rhetorical Dialect and Authenticity in Dutchified English.” Invited lecture for the Center for Upper Midwest Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

(41) Brown, Joshua R., and Michael Putnam. 2011. “Functional Convergence and Extension in Contact: Syntactic and Semantic Attributes of the Progressive Aspect in Pennsylvania Dutch.” Paper presented at the Second Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America, Oslo.

(42) Brown, Joshua R. 2010. “Ethnolinguistic Vitality among the Hutterian Brethren.” Paper presented at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 16, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

(43) Brown, Joshua R. 2009. “Pennsylvania Dutch English on Broadway.” Paper presented at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 15, University of Alberta, Calgary.

(44) Barnes, Hilary, Joshua R. Brown, and Eva-Maria Suarez Büdenbender. 2008. “Negative Complementation in Latin.” Poster presented at the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 38, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

(45) Brown, Joshua R., and B. Richard Page. 2007. “Attitudes toward Amish Multilingualism.” Paper presented at The Amish in American: New Identities and Diversities Conference, Elizabethtown College.

(46) Page, B. Richard, and Joshua R. Brown. 2007. “Language Contact and the Retention of V2 in Pennsylvania German.” Paper presented at the Sixth International Symposium on Bilingualism, Hamburg.

(47) Louden, Mark L., B. Richard Page, and Joshua R. Brown. 2007. “Pennsylvania German.” Workshop presented at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 13, The Pennsylvania State University.

(48) Brown, Joshua R. 2007. “Attempts at a Schriftsprache in Civil War-era Pennsylvania.” Paper presented at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 13, The Pennsylvania State University.

(49) Page, B. Richard, and Joshua R. Brown. 2006. “Big Valley Oral History Project: Language Attitudes Toward Pennsylvania German.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for German-American Studies, Lancaster, PA.

(50) Page, B. Richard, and Joshua R. Brown. 2006. “From V2 to SVO? A Quantitative Analysis of Word Order in Pennsylvania German.” Paper presented at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 12, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

German language and culture courses

  • Beginning German I–II

  • Intermediate German I–II

  • German Grammar & Composition

  • German Culture & Civilization to 1871

  • Seminar in German Civilization I

  • German for Professional Communication

  • German Sound System

  • German Oral Proficiency

  • Modern German Civilization

  • Introduction to Translation

Culture courses

  • Amish in North America

  • Language and Culture (Anthropology)

  • Perspectives in LGBTQ Studies (Gender & Sexuality Studies)

Linguistics courses

  • Introduction to Linguistics

  • Second Language Acquisition Theories

  • Language, Thought, and Culture

  • Topics in the Structure of English (Morphology)

  • Topics in Language in Society (Heritage Languages)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Thesis Committees

(1) Anderson, Rebecca. The war at home. Master of Arts in English, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2016.

(2) Heidemann, Heidi. From farmers to cowboys: Rural American identity and community in Manawa, Wisconsin, 1848-1970. Master of Arts in History, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2014.

(3) Jorgenson, Christopher J. Persistence of LGBTQ+ students of color at predominantly white institutions of higher education. Doctor of Education in Student Affairs Administration and Leadership, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, 2020.

(4) Pederson, Christopher J. German-American Schuetzen activities from the mid-1800s to early 1900s. Master of Arts in History, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2021.

(5) Rocker, Maike. Verb placement variation in heritage speakers of Low German in Iowa: Evidence for individual language attrition or communal language change? Doctor of Philosophy in Germanic Linguistics and Language Science, Pennsylvania State University, 2022.

Service to the Department, University, and System

  • Chair, Department Personnel Committee, 2023–present

  • Reviewing body, American Indian Studies, 2023–present

  • External partner, Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, UW-Madison, 2019–present

  • Working group for Student Success and Equity, Wisconsin Languages Roadmap, UW–Madison, 2018

  • Internal Review Committee chair (Latin American Studies program review), 2018

  • College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, 2017–2021

  • Academic and Non-Academic Misconduct Committee, 2017–present

  • Campus Fulbright Awards Committee, 2017–present

  • Institutional Resource Committee, 2014–2020

  • Faculty search committee, Assistant professor of English, 2014

  • Humanities grant proposal review committee chair, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, 2013–2017

  • Faculty search committee, Assistant professor of Spanish, 2013

  • LGBTQ Advisory Board, 2012–2019

Service to the Profession

  • Vice president, Society for German-American Studies, 2023–present

  • Editorial board, Open Germanic Linguistics, Language Science Press, 2020–present

  • Conference co-organizer, Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, 2018

  • Board of Directors, Friends of the Max Kade Institute, UW-Madison, 2017¬–2020, 2020–2023

  • Steering Committee, North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics, 2017–2020

  • Editor, Society for German-American Studies newsletter, 2017–2023

  • Editor, H-Net: Transnational German Studies, 2016–present

  • Webmaster, Wisconsin-American Association of Teachers of German, 2011–2020

LANGUAGES

  • English (superior)

  • German (superior)

  • Pennsylvania Dutch (advanced)

  • Latin (reading)

  • Middle High German (reading)

  • Gothic (reading)

REFERENCES

Dr. Anita Auer, Professor
Quartier UNIL-Dorigny,
Bâtiment Anthropole
Office : 5123
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 

Dr. Simon Bronner, Dean
University of Milwaukee, College of General Studies
400 S. University Drive
West Bend, WI  53095 

Dr. Angela Hoffman, Associate Professor
Department of English
University of Uppsala
Box 527
751 20 Uppsala, Sweden 

Dr. Mark Louden, Professor
802 Van Hise Hall
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706  

Dr. Aneta Pavlenko, Research Professor
Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan
University of Oslo
PO Box 1102 Blindern
0316 Oslo, Norway 

Dr. Joseph Salmons, Director
Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures
404 University Club
432 East Campus Mall
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706