Salutations! I’m Brandon, but most people call me Bran. I recently received my PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University, where I was advised by Robert Hawkins, Rob Podesva, and Meghan Sumner. My dissertation offered an account of referring expression processing and production that integrates the often competing cognitive and social pressures that underpin these processes. I have also collaborated with various colleagues on research projects in language acquisition, sociophonetics, morphosyntax, and computational linguistics, often as an experimentalist and data analyst; I am very passionate about bringing large-scale behavioral data to bear on theoretical questions. I am also currently looking to pivot into a career in industry or non-profit work where I can leverage my research and technical skills to make a positive impact on society; feel free to reach out if you'd like to talk shop!
In my free time, I enjoy reading (you can find me on StoryGraph) video games (Overwatch, Hearthstone and Barony are current faves), hosting bar trivia, spending time with my dog (Dionysus 🍇), and building Glossolalia, an open-source repository of language-learning exercises.
