Biography
Rogers Reading List
Dr. Rogers has compiled a list of readings that are essential to the development of skills relating to language endangerment, language documentation, language description, linguistic typology, and historical linguistics. For Rogers Reading List click here.
Research Interests
My research program focuses on documenting, describing, understanding, and preserving the world’s language ecologies, with a particular emphasis on the linguistic diversity of Latin America and related regions. This work addresses the critical need to ground linguistic analysis in language use and to develop resources in the awesome diversity of language varieties around the world. My scholarship seeks to respond to this need by producing linguistically informed outcomes for language communities, scholars, and allied disciplines.The foundation of my research lies in three interrelated pursuits:
Language Documentation and Description
Diachronic Comparison and Implications
Crosslinguistic Comparison and Typological Implications
Teaching Interests
My teaching philosophy, developed over 20+ years of designing and teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in linguistics, is guided by five principles:Student engagement with personal interests: Encouraging students to connect course topics to their own intellectual curiosities.
Methodological discovery: Guiding students in identifying and applying appropriate analytical methods for linguistic data.
Appreciation for descriptive theory: Establishing descriptive practices as the foundation for linguistic argumentation and theoretical inferences.
Foundation of linguistic analysis in the process of data derivation: Grounding linguistic analysis in the understanding of the nature of language data and how it is derived.
Collaborative learning: Promoting dialogue and diverse perspectives on global language ecologies of language use.
Peer-to-peer dissemination: Cultivating skills in qualitative and quantitative argumentation through student-led discussions
These principles create a dynamic classroom where curiosity drives learning and research strengthens student excellence. My teaching interests align with my scholarship and include: Language Documentation and Description, Typology, Phonology, Morphosyntax, Historical Linguistics, and Linguistic Field Methods.
Education
- PhD, Linguistics , Empirical & General linguistics, University of Utah (2010)
- MA, Linguistics , Sociolinguistics, San Diego State University (2007)
- BA, Spanish , California State San Marcos (2004)
Memberships
- Linguistic Society of America (2020 - Present)
- Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (2007 - Present)