My research examines the formation of language communities and the emergence and evolution of language. Currently, I am working as a postdoctoral researcher on the Sign Change project. I am also contributing to several other research projects:

• The formation of early American signing communities, such as those in New England and on the island of Martha’s Vineyard.

• The formation of signing communities in the former Soviet Union and the emergence of new sign languages there, including in Georgia and in Tajikistan.

• The evolution of signed languages and their manual alphabets using phylogenetic methods.