Meet our Team

Michal Temkin Martinez is the director for the Boise State Linguistics Lab. She has a BA and MA in Linguistics from California State University, Northridge and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Southern California. Her research include theoretical and experimental phonology and language documentation, as well as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in linguistics. She is currently co-PI of a National Science Foundation grant (NSF #1924593) with Dr. Kazuko Hiramatsu at the University of Michigan-Flint facilitating a faculty learning community whose main goal is capacity building of SoTL work in the field of linguistics.

Dr. Temkin Martinez currently serves as the Honors College Faculty in Residence and is Associate Editor of the journal Language with responsibilities for the Teaching Linguistics section of the journal.

Michal Martinez’s Downloadable publications

Casey Iezzi joined the faculty of the English Department at Boise State University in 2011. She has a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and an M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Languge, both from Northern Arizona University. Her research interests include corpus linguistics, second language writing, and pedagogical grammar. Dr. Keck directs the BSU branch of Project SHINE (Students Helping in the Naturalization of Elders).

Gail Shuck is Coordinator of English Language Support Programs for Boise State. She teaches writing courses for nonnative English speakers as well as courses related to teaching English as a second language. Her recent publications include “Racializing the Nonnative English Speaker” (Journal of Language, Identity, and Education) and “Ownership of Texts, Ownership of Language” (Vol. 4[3]). She is currently investigating how Boise State’s multilingual students perceive their identities in relation to various language communities.

Gail Shuck’s Downloadable publications

Tim Thornes joined the linguistics faculty in the Department of English at Boise State University in 2012. He earned both an M.A. and Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Oregon where he developed his interests in language typology, language documentation, and Native American languages. In 2003, he completed a comprehensive grammar of the Northern Paiute language as a dissertation. His earlier experience includes a B.A. in English (writing emphasis) from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota and three years working as a primary school construction supervisor as a Peace Corps volunteer in Gabon. He has taught linguistics at the University of Oregon and University of Central Arkansas. He has presented and published widely on aspects of Northern Paiute grammatical structures while exploring their relationships both within the ecology of the language and from a cross-linguistic, typological perspective.

Tim Thornes’s Downloadable publications

Jon Dayley received a BA and MA in Anthropology from Idaho State University and an MA and Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley. He taught linguistics and did research on Mayan languages in Guatemala for several years, worked as a writer and researcher for the Experiment in International Living in Vermont and Belize, and also taught linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been at Boise State University since 1982. His specialties are English grammar, American Indian languages (especially Uto-Aztecan and Mayan), and Creole languages. He has written a number of books and articles on Shoshoni, Panamint Shoshone, Tz’utujil Mayan, and Belizean Creole.