The DocuMentalist
Voice Actor and Academic: I am available for voice work on television, theatre, video games, commercials and for speaking at events.
I feature in-depth discussions, interviews, and analyses on a wide range of topics, including philosophy, literature, history, sociology, biological anthropology, etc. I'm basically a four-fields anthropology type who ended up in linguistics to explore the interaction of culture and cognition, but with an historical bent and an evolutionary eye.
I obtained my MA from Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, and now a research assistant at the Universiteit Leiden, living in the Netherlands. I study (cognitive) linguistics and history (historical ethnography). I conducted an internship at the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Austrian Academy of Sciences). I feel equally at home in the (bio-)social sciences and the Humanities. I like to promote co-operation in science and the arts and between the 'Two Cultures' as C.P. Snow put it.
Bad Bunny and Amazonia: Cultural erasure, remembering and revival
South America Podcast Episode 9: Agrifood and Amazonia with Youyi Xie
How FROGS contributed to Linguistics!
'Now o'er the one-half world...' 'Is this a dagger' part II, Macbeth performed by Austin Howard
The Pumé of the Plains with Silvana Saturno: The South America Podcast Episode 8
Mackenzie Marcinko on Quechua endangerment in Perú and amongst immigrants to the United States
Documenting Multimodal Language in Eastern Ecuador: Kichwa Ideophones
Mapping Human Gesture!
Grammar of Happiness author, Daniel Everett, Linguist who worked with the Amazonian Pirahã
Language overview:Awajún and the Chicham family in Upper Amazonia - Simon Overall
Have a Plan but be Open - Amazonian Fieldwork and Cognitive Experiments with Austin Howard
Language Contact, Iconicity & the joys of Comparative Work - Austin Howard, Cognitive Anthropologist
What is Cognitive Linguistic Anthropology? Austin Howard
Rubber Boom and Amazonian Ethnohistory with Simon Overall (Otago)
Crack - a human became a tree - Sound symbolism in South America and beyond
Simon Overall: Awajún and writing the 'genius' vibes in Amazonia - South America Podcast Episode 7
Genetic Anthropology of South America: Ethnical Genetics
Coca tradicional - hoja medicinal en San Martín, Perú con Rocío Sangama Salas, sabio local
Jungle to the Brain with sound symbolism - Janis Nuckolls, expert on Pastaza Kichwa
Layers in South American History part I: Thoughts from a comparative scholar #travel
Amazonian anthropology and linguistics - intro and a bit of my story (audio only with subs)
Expedition to the High Jungle: Yurilamas in San Martín, Perú
Achilles loses his temper at Agamemnon - Iliad