[4] She joined the faculty of the University of North Texas (UNT) in 1996, where she held the positions of Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and Associate Dean of Research and Advancement at the College of Information until 2022.
[6] Her publications include A Grammar of Meithei (Mouton 1997) and The Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork (Springer 2011) as well as articles on Tibeto-Burman differential case marking and language contact, many of which she has co-authored with her students.
[7] She has partnered with individuals and academic institutions in India to create a state-of-the-art archive for the long term preservation and access of language documentation materials.
She is working with Political Scientists James Meernik and Kimi King to create interdisciplinary frameworks to understand threats to language vitality.
[11] With computational linguist, Alexis Palmer, she is working on discovering differential marking patterns through cross language comparison.