publications
The Conversation. 2026.
“Push for Creole courses in schools stokes historic anti‑Haitian feeling in Dominican Republic.” The Conversation. 2026.
*Republished in English in The Miami Herald, The Charlotte Observer, and The Latino Newsletter
“Introduction: Caribbean languages on the move.”
in Ports of Entry: Language in Caribbean Migrations. Kendall Medford, editor. University Press of Mississippi. Forthcoming.
“A Festival of Resistance: Bannzil Kreyòl 2024 and the efforts to preserve Creole in Cuba.” With Mariana Past.
in Ports of Entry: Language in Caribbean Migrations. Kendall Medford, editor. University Press of Mississippi. Forthcoming.
De los dos lados: Haitian migration and Creole language maintenance in the Dominican Republic.
Doctoral Dissertation, Tulane University. 2026.
“The comedic performance of Mock Haitian in Dominican media: A raciosemiotic approach to enregisterment.” With Benjamin Puterbaugh.
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 2025.
“Quítate tú pa ponerme yo: Tracing the dialectal pull of reggaetón,”
in Puerto Rican Spanish, Reggaetón Style! The (Socio) Linguistics of Urban Music. Wilfredo Valentín-Márquez, editor. Vernon Press. 2025.
“Eso no es Kreyòl”: Linguistic Insecurity among Haitian Creole Speakers in the Dominican Republic.”
Journal of Language Contact. 17, 3. 2024.
“Haitian Creole in the Caribbean: Exploring Haitian sociolinguistic contact in Cuba and the Dominican Republic,” with Luis A. Ortiz Lopez.
in Language, Decoloniality, and Social Justice in the Caribbean. Patrick André-Mather, editor. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2023.
“In the Dominican Republic, Language Barriers Complicate Life for Haitian Migrants,”
NACLA Report on the Americas. 2022.
