EDUCATION:
2005: Rutgers University Ph.D. degree
2000 - 2005: Rutgers University, USA (PhD. candidate).
1994-2000: San Marcos University, Peru.

DEGREES:
Ph.D. Rutgers University (2005)
Licenciatura in Linguistics (San Marcos University) (2000)
BA in Linguistics (San Marcos University) (2000)

PhD DISSERTATION TITLE: "Theoretical Aspects of Panoan Metrical Phonology: Footing and Syllable Weight" (Director: Alan Prince)

PUBLICATIONS:
"Quantity-(In)Sensitivity and Underlying Glottal Stop Deletion in Capanahua", in The University of Arizona Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 13. Special Volume Dedicated to the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (2004:1-16).

Review: João Costa (ed). Portuguese Syntax: New Comparative Studies. In Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 10 (2003): 277-80.

"Un Análisis Métrico del Acento en Shipibo" [A Metrical Analysis of the Stress in Shipibo]. In Lenguaje y Sociedad 3 (2001): 27-46.

"¿Sílabas Pesadas Monomoraicas?: Reflexionado sobre el Peso Silábico en Shipibo" [Monomoraic Heavy Syllables?: Reflecting on Syllable Weight in Shipibo]. In Primer Congreso de Lenguas Indígenas de Sudamérica 1, (Ed.) Luis Miranda. Lima: Ricardo Palma University (2000): 135-49.

"Algunas Asimetrías Morfofonológicas del Shipibo" [Some Morphophonological Asymmetries in Shipibo]. In Reporte Técnico sobre la Investigación Lingüística, Cultural y Aplicada de las Lenguas Amerindias. Lima: San Marcos University (1998): 122-30.

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: "Variable Syllable Weight and Quantity-Insensitive Allomorphy in Shipibo", in Proceedings of the 35th Conference of the North Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS 35).

El Acento en Shipibo [Stress in Shipibo]. Thesis for Licenciatura in Linguistics. Lima: San Marcos University Press, monograph series.

TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS:
Department of Linguistics at Rutgers University
Ling 101: Introduction to the Study of Language (2003, 2004).

Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers University
Span 362: Spanish Phonetics and Phonology (2002, 2004).
Span 363: Hispanic Bilingualism (2002, 2003).
Rutgers Summer Program in Cusco, Peru, Summer 04
Undergraduate: Spanish Phonology for English Speakers (2004).
Graduate: Compared Phonology of Spanish and Quechua (2004).

Centro Peruano de Audición, Lenguaje y Aprendizaje, Peru.
Course: Introduction to Linguistics (1999-2000)
Course: Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology (1999-2000)

Universidad de San Marcos, Peru.
Course: Spanish for Non-Spanish Speakers (1998-2000)
Course: Phonology I (1998, 1999)
Course: Phonology II (1997 - 1999)

AWARDS:
University and Louis Bevier Graduate and Dissertation Fellowship (2004)
Rutgers University Teaching Assistantship (2002-2003)
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Classroom Teaching Award (2002)
Rutgers University Graduate School Fellowship (2000-2001)

RESEARCH:
Rutgers University (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) Project: Focus in Andean Bilingual Spanish, led by Dr. Liliana Sánchez (2001, 2002).
Católica University (Department of Linguistics), Peru Project: The Configuration of Morphosyntactic Features in the Third-Person Pronominal System in Bilingual Spanish from Lamas and Spanish from Lima, led by Dr. Liliana Sánchez (1999, 2000).
EDUCERE, Peru Project: Research on Spanish Phonological Acquisition in 2-to-5-Year-Old Children from Lima - Peru, led by Dr. Oriele Montezuma and Dr. Cecilia Ciccia (1998 - 2000).
San Marcos University (Department of Linguistics), Peru Project: Research on the Morphology and Phonology of Shipibo. Led by Dr. María Cortez-Mondragón (1998, 1999).

FIELDWORK:
Experiment design and empirical data collection on foot-based alternating suffix in Shipibo. Eight subjects canvassed (Peru, July - August 2003, 2004)
Experiment design and empirical data collection on Shipibo stress. Thirty subjects canvassed (Peru, July - August 2002)
Empirical data collection on Capanahua Coordination. Fifteen subjects canvassed. (Iquitos - Peru, July - August 2001)
Empirical data collection on focused DPs in Spanish from Bilingual Shipibo Speakers. Thirty subjects canvassed. (Pucallpa - Peru, July 1998)
Evaluation of the Syntactic Competence in the Spanish of Bilingual Ashaninka Children. One hundred and fifty children canvassed. (Junin - Peru, October 1996, July 1997)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
Sept 2005: "Theoretical Aspects of Panoan Metrical Phonology: Footing and Syllable Weight". Talk at Rutgers University.
Jan 2005: "Relations between Quantity and Weight Categorizations: The Case of Lhasa Tibetan". Second Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP2), University of Tromsø, Norway.
Oct 2004: "Variable Syllable Weight and Quantity-Insensitive Allomorphy in Shipibo". 35th Conference of the North Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS 35), University of Connecticut Storrs.
May 2004: "Non-Uniformity of Syllable Weight and Foot-Type in Capanahua". 12th Manchester Phonology Meeting (12mfm), Manchester University, England. April 2004: "Metrical Feet and the RIBA-Allomorphy in Shipibo". 7th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL 7), University of California, Santa Barbara.
Feb 2004: "Metrical Structure and Variable Closed Syllable Weight in Capanahua". 28th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania.
Oct 2003: "Contextually Variable Closed Syllable Weight in Panoan Languages". Michigan Linguistic Society, University of Michigan.
Aug 2003: "La Ritmicidad y la Cantidad en Shipibo" [Rhythmic Aspects and Quantity in Shipibo]. Invited lecture at San Marcos University, Peru.
April 2002: "Subject Doubling in Capanahua". HUMDRUM, University of Massachussets Amherst.
Nov 2001: "Coordination and Switch-Reference: Evidence from Capanahua". The 4th North West Centre For Linguistics Annual International Conference on Coordination: Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics, University of Salford, England. (Co-presented with José Camacho)
Feb 2000: "Syllable Weight in Shipibo, Tiberian Hebrew and Kashmiri". The Linguistics Workshop. Universidad Católica, Lima.
July 1999: "¿Sílabas Pesadas Monomoraicas?: Reflexionado sobre el Peso Silábico en Shipibo" [Monomoraic Heavy Syllables?: Reflecting on Syllable Weight in Shipibo]. Congreso de Lenguas Indígenas de Sudamérica. Ricardo Palma University, Lima.