Academic Papers:
"The Moravian experience in early colonial Georgia: Insights from the Dober, Toltschig, and Eckstein diaries." 2009 Lilly Fellows Program regional research conference "The Pietist impulse in Christianity," Bethel University, St. Paul, MN (March 2009).
"Wie soll mer's s(c)hreiwe?: Three Centuries of Pennsylvania German Orthography." Thirty-second annual symposium of the Society for German-American Studies, Colonial Williamsburg, VA (April 2008).
"Three Moravian travel diaries from early colonial Georgia." Thirty-first annual symposium of the Society for German-American Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (April 2007).
"Evidence of convergence in Pennsylvania German.” Thirtieth annual symposium of the Society for German-American Studies, Lancaster, PA (May 2006).
“Francis Lieber’s ‘A brief and practical German grammar’.” Twenty-ninth annual symposium of the Society for German-American Studies, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI (May 2005).
“Language attitude across society and generations in a Pennsylvania German speech island.” International symposium on German settlement dialects (Sprachinselkonferenz 2001), University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (March 2001).
“‘. . . of the most ignorant stupid sort of their own Nation’: Perceptions of the Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.” Annual Conference of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS), Savannah, GA (March 2000).
“Language attitude then and now: The varieties spoken by the Pennsylvania Germans.” Third Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC-3), University of California, Los Angeles, CA (April 1997).
“The matched-guise technique in practice: Measuring language attitudes within the Pennsylvania German speech community.” Symposium on the German Language in America 1683-1991, Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (October 1991).
“Phonologische Interferenzen im Englischen der Pennsylvaniadeutschen” (“Phonological interference in the English varieties spoken by the Pennsylvania Germans”). Heidelberger Soziolinguistentag (Heidelberg Sociolinguistics Symposium), University of Heidelberg, Germany (November 1990).
Books:
Francis Lieber's Brief and Practical German Grammar. 2008. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
The phonology of Pennsylvania German English as evidence of language maintenance and shift. 1999. London: Associated University Presses.
Articles:
"Evidence of convergence in Pennsylvania German." In: Joshua R. Brown and Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr.,(eds.). Preserving Heritage: A Festschrift for C. Richard Beam. Supplemental issue of the Yearbook of German-American Studies, Volume 2. 2006. 49-65.
“Language attitude across society and generations in a Pennsylvania German speech island.” In: William D. Keel and Klaus J. Mattheier (eds.) German language varieties worldwide: Internal and external perspectives / Deutsche Sprachinseln weltweit: Interne und externe Perspektiven. 2003. Frankfurt Peter Lang. 87-115.
“‘. . . of the most ignorant stupid sort of their own Nation’: Perceptions of the Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.” Yearbook of German-American Studies 35. 2000. 41-55.
“Die Phonologie des Englischen der Pennsylvaniadeutschen als Indikator für Spracherhalt und Sprachverlagerung.” Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 64/1. 1997. 1-36.
“The matched-guise technique in practice: Measuring language attitudes within the Pennsylvania German speech community.” In: Joseph C. Salmons (ed.). The German Language in America, 1683-1991. 1993. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies. 264-83.
Reviews:
Review of A word atlas of Pennsylvania German by Lester W. J. Seifert (Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 2001). H-Net Discussion List on German-American and German-Canadian Studies (H-GAGCS). 20 September 2002. Reprinted in Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies (Millersville University) 11/1. 2004. 19-20.
Review of Vom (Nieder-)Deutschen zum Englischen. Untersuchungen zur sprachlichen Assimilation einer ländlichen Gemeinde im mittleren Westen Amerikas by Birgit Mertens (Heidelberg: Winter, 1994). Anglia 115/3. 1997. 386-88.
Review of Stability and change in the Pennsylvania German dialect of an Old Order Amish community in Lancaster County by Barbara Meister Ferré (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1994). Monatshefte 88/3. 1996. 391-93.
Reviewer of the 2002 revision of the Georgia Quality Core Curriculum for Classical Languages (Georgia Department of Education). 2002.
