College of Arts & Humanities Linguistics and School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures

I am interested in the biolinguistics program, from various perspectives. I was trained as a syntactician, although my previous studies had not concentrated on linguistics. It is through my earlier interests in economics and biology that I engaged in architectural and foundational aspects of language since I wrote my dissertation On Government.

I consider it the responsibility of any intellectual to offer their expertise to society, especially when their views can help shape public policy and address social justice. Most of my outreach activities concentrate on cultural politics and the defense of human diversity.

I am also very interested in informing academic debate and improving the lives and activities of academics, particularly inasmuch as this includes under-represented minorities. In my view, broadly construed diversity is essential to the human condition, and very directly responsible for breakthroughs in the arts and sciences.