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Experience

August 2022-present
UX Researcher and Product Manager, Los Angeles (internship)
2020-present
Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
2018-2020   
Teaching Associate, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
2018-20202  
Research Assistant in LASPEAKS project; PI Dr. Norma Mendonza-Denton, University of California, Los Angeles
2017-2018   
Primary Instructor for LIN/ENG210: History of English, University of Kentucky
2017  
Member of the 2017 Linguistic Institute (LSA Summer Institute) administrative team
2017
Teaching Assistant for LIN331: Language in US Society, University Kentucky
2016-2018   
Teaching Assistant for LIN211: Introduction to the Study of Language, University of Kentucky 

Conference Presentation

2018f
Khoshsirat, Z. (2018). The -əx-: The Unexpected Passive Suffix in The Gilaki Foomanati.  NACIL2, University of Arizona
2018e
Khoshsirat, Z & Gregory Stump. (2018). Morphotactics of The Gilaki Negative Affix. NACIL2, University of Arizona
2018d 
Khoshsirat, Z & A. Byrd. (2018). The Gilaki Causative Suffix -be(ː)-: Its Function and Origins. Presentation at The 30th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference.
2018c 
Is Galeshi a Correct Name?, Central Kentucky Linguistics Conference
2018b
Gili, Dailami, Tabari: A New Classification of Gilaki Language, ConCALL-3, Indiana University
2018a
Ethnolinguistic Evidence in Five Inchoative Verbs of Gilaki About Rice Development, ConCALL-3, Indiana University
2017b  
A Diachronic Study of Two Inchoative Verbs in Gilaki, LSA Institute Poster Session 

2017a

Grammaticalization of Inchoative Aspect in Gilaki, Central Kentucky Linguistics Conference

Papers

Submitted        
(with Andrew M. Byrd) The Indo-Iranian Labial-Enlarged Causative Suffix: Proto-Caspian *-āwēn-, Eastern Iranian *-(ā)u̯ai̯a-, and Indic -(ā)páya-. Brill.

Book Chapters

preparing          
(with Gregory Stump) The Morphotactics of the Gilaki Negative Affix. In Handbook of Caspian Languages. 
 

submitted          
-əx- the Unexpected Passive Suffix in Gilaki Foomanati. In Handbook of Iranian Language Phonology. Springer


submitted          
Discursive and Practical Consciousness in Spiritual Persian Poetry Classes in Los Angeles. In Handbook of Persian Discourse Analysis. Springer.

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