The intersection of language and race in education. Recent research on the dynamics of transnational Indigenous sovereignty, return migration, and education in the Maya diaspora Yucatan-California.
Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies; Director, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
PhD, UC Berkeley
Queer and feminist theory, Disability theory, Critical animal studies, Materiality studies, Cultural politics of race, sexuality, ability, and immigration, Critical linguistics, Paradigms of inter- and transdisciplinarity
Associate Professor of Spanish and Romance Linguistics
PhD, University of Illinois
Sociolinguistics, contact linguistics and language contact, language variation and change, Romance linguistics, quantitative methods (statistics, variable rule analyses for sociolinguistics, and computer software for statistics), sociohistorical linguistics, sociophonetics, bilingualism, Catalan, Spanish, dialectal diversification, foreign language pedagogy.
Distinguished Professor in Linguistic Anthropology
PhD, University of Chicago
The organization and dynamics of routine language use, Shamanism, and colonial history of Yucatan; Mayan languages; semantics and pragmatics, especially deictic systems
Poetic meter. Toward a general theory of meter as a stylization of the phonology of rhythm in natural language, and how such a theory can illuminate formal, historical and aesthetic properties of modern English meters
Social/Personality: emotion; social interaction; individual differences in emotion; conflict and negotiation; culture; co-Director of the Greater Good Science Center.