My interests include:

• historical phonology, especially computational approaches and the dynamics driving sound change 
  • I run the DiaSim lab, which provides research experiences for undergraduates with background in historical linguistics and/or coding, using automated diachronic simulation to test hypothesized relative chronologies of sound change and the interference of morphological analogy
  • Computerized Forward Reconstruction (CFR) 
    • my system, DiaSim, is public access and I am working on making it more public friendly. If you are good at graphics and making GUIs, I am interested in your help! 
    • published works on this: in LT4HALA (2020: available here (click)) , Diachronica (2022/2023: journal version here (click); preprint here)
  • while DiaSim works in manually modified SPE-style text sheets, I also investigate neural approaches to diachrony 
  • I am interested in investigating systemic factors like functional load
  • dabbling in other computational approaches to diachrony: loanword and refection detection, probabilistic reconstruction etc. 
• language extinction, especially inquiry into pre-modern scenarios, such as the late classical period. 
• language contact, with a sprachbund approach; also, exploring computational approaches to contact outcomes

Areas: 

• Romance languages (especially: French and other oil varieties; Romanian)
• Balkan languages (especially: Albanian, Romanian, Turkish) 
• some other (late-)classical era languages I can get distracted with (in order of interest, roughly): Gaulish, Hittite, Messapic, Sogdian, Avestan, Hebrew, Phrygian, Doric Greek dialects

Trivia:

• I will accept pronunciations of my name with either a [ʔ], a [ɾ], or an unreleased T. You are free to innovate as well. Some people pronounce the /l/ as a lateral fricative, which is rather curious. 
• With Lindon Dedvukaj, I have designed a "reconlang" version of Ancient Macedonian upon request, for use in a series.
• from ages 16 to 22, I ended up as Frodo by popular demand for Halloween seven years in a row
• like at least two other people in this department (and counting) I have been an oboist 
• I bear no relation that I know of to some people in history who (perhaps unfortunately) have a last name spelled like mine, and (fortunately) that includes the Soviet linguist N.R. Marr. I (unfortunately) also do not have any relation that I know of to the neuroscientist/cognitive scientist David Marr.

Teaching: 

• Introduction to Linguistics
• Undergraduate-level historical linguistics (LING 3901 "Language Evolution and Language Change")