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[edit] Professional
I am a PhD candidate in linguistics. My main areas of research are formal phonology and morphophonolgy. My language interests include Chinese (Mandarin and Classical Chinese), Yiddish, and a potpourri of indigenous American languages, particularly Kwak'wala, Dakota and Uto-Aztecan languages. I also do research in the area of computational linguistics, particularly CLIR issues (including the EXCLAIM system).
[edit] Unprofessional
I am interested in history and politics. My interests include the history of revolutionary movements and Chinese history both old (especially the Warring States/Spring and Autumn period) and new (I am currently engaged in a research project concerning the Cultural Revolution, organized by the wenge yanjiu xiaozu). More practically, I am a steward in my union, UAW local 2865.
[edit] Personal
My other interests include socialism, cooking, anti-colonialism, fencing, feminism, punk rock, coffee, blues, queer liberation, cats, klezmer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, linux, LaTeX and Perl.
Favorite authors include Karl Marx, V. I. Lenin, Frantz Fanon, Audre Lorde, Monique Wittig, Lu Xun, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
[edit] Wikiwork
Currently I am putting my tiny spade to work in fixing up some articles on indigenous American languages (which are in a sorry state, by and large). So far my largest contributions have been in the articles on Kwak'wala and Tübatulabal. I've done smaller-scale cleanup on several other languages, as well as related articles. I'd like to do some serious work on the pages for (at least) Tohono O'odham and Lakota, as well as further developing the pages I've already worked on.
For the record, I don't think that a credible encyclopedia can be built through a wiki process. But a useful source of information can be. That's what I'm going for here.
