Media

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• 🎙️ Podcast Interviews
• 🎤 Public Talks
• 📝 Online Articles
• 📰 News Interviews

Podcast Interviews

• America’s soft power has helped this Kenyan man’s efforts to ensure a future for his mother tongue, by Patrick Cox, The World in Words (2017-01-26)

Public Talks

• The linguistics of the first Thanksgiving. Raytheon Technologies Alliance of Indigenous Nations (RAIN). (2023-11-10)
• Pumpkin Spice Linguistics. Edmonton Nerd Nite. (2022-09-29)

• Renaissance on the bayou: Revitalizing the Chitimacha language. University of California Grad Slam.

Online Articles

• A dying language is making a comeback. Time Magazine. (2015-07-29)
• Why do languages die? Mises Daily. (2012-01-04)

Media About Me

• Popular linguistic influencer resurrects 2015 tale of Taylor Swift’s grammatical gamble, by Prathika Prashant, Netflix Junkie (2023-11-06)
• Graduate student in the spotlight: Daniel Hieber on revitalizing languages, rock climbing, and research motivation, by Melissa Rap, UC Santa Barbara Grad Post (2015-07-29)
• UCSB Ph.D. student Daniel Hieber takes second place in inaugural UC Grad Slam, by Patricia Marroquin, Santa Barbara Independent (2015-05-07)
• The three-minute challenge: Graduate student in linguistics wins the Grad Slam and goes on to compete in the first UC-wide competition on May 4, by Julie Cohen, The Current (2015-04-20)

Interviews for News Articles

• What’s the world’s oldest language?, by Lucy Tu, Scientific American (2023-08-24)
• Why the exclamation mark is still something to get excited about!, by Jonathan Ore, The Sunday Magazine (2023-04-03)
• Is the internet changing how we talk about slang words?, by Dillon Thompson, In the Know (2022-05-16)
• Digital blackface thrives on TikTok audio, by Jennimai Nguyen, Mashable (2022-03-14)
• Linguistic expert recommends the best opening Wordle word, IFL Science (2022-01-27)
• Canada’s English dictionary hasn’t been updated in almost 2 decades. What does that say about us?, by Jackson Weaver, CBC (2022-01-02)

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