Steve is a veteran of the Eastern Michigan University Linguist List and E-MELD team and went on to get a 2012 Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics at the University of Washington with a dissertation title "Phonetics information base and lexicon." He previously did fieldwork in Ghana and published a grammatical sketch of Western Sisaala. He manages the Dogon project website, and has done fieldwork on Toro-So (Sangha So dialect) in 2009 and 2013. He was a postdoc researcher at the University of Munich (Germany) in the project "Quantitative language comparison" funded by the European Research Council from 2012-2014, and is currently a postdoc in the Department of Comparative Linguistics at the University of Zurich.
