Media
A list of my media appearances.
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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)
News Interviews
- 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)
- 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)