Kate began her linguistic studies at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in math and linguistics. She received her PhD in Linguistics in 2011 from the University of California, San Diego, where she wrote her dissertation on "The Nature of the Semantic Scale: Evidence from Sign Language Research" under the direction of Ivano Caponigro and Rachel Mayberry. She's previously visited Harvard Linguistics as a graduate student in 2009, and later held a postdoctoral position in Linguistics at the University of Connecticut working under Diane Lillo-Martin on bimodal (sign and speech) bilingualism and most recently a joint postdoctoral appointment in Cognitive Science and Linguistics at Yale where she's advised students on projects related to semantic acquisition, bilingualism, and formal semantics in ASL.

Besides establishing her lab as a place that welcomes research on both formal and experimental approaches to language meaning and language modality, Kate looks forward to teaching and participating in the extremely active community of researchers interested in the mind at Harvard and the greater Boston area.

Welcome, Kate!