Academic Background: Ph.D. in Linguistics, The Ohio State University, 1935.
Research Interests: Sociolinguistics, American underworld language, and dialectology.
Appointments: Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, The Ohio State University; Former faculty at University of Louisville.
Publications: Author of Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Argot of Pickpockets (Rowman & Littlefield, 1955).
Additional Contributions: Pioneered studies of criminal subculture linguistics.