Notes on Contributors
Trevor Bero
(Ph.D., 2022, Pennsylvania State University) currently works for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. His graduate research focused on language variation and change with a special interest in language contact situations.
Franny D. Brogan
(Ph.D., 2018, University of California, Los Angeles) is a visiting scholar in Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College (California, USA). Her research explores sociophonetic variation in Spanish and Latinx Englishes.
Munia Cabal-Jiménez
(Ph.D., 2013, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is associate professor of Spanish and Hispanic Linguistics at Western Illinois University (Illinois, USA). Her research focuses on history of Spanish, historical sociolinguistics, and Heritage Spanish in the US.
Madeline Critchfield
(Ph.D., 2021, University of Georgia) is assistant professor of Spanish at Rockhurst University (Missouri, USA). Her research focuses on bilingual morphosyntax, Nicaraguan Spanish, and Spanish-Miskitu language contact.
Ana Isabel García Tesoro
(Ph.D., 2005, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain) is associate professor of Linguistics at University of Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia). Her research focuses on language variation, contact-induced language change, and varieties of Spanish in contact with Mayan languages and Quechua.
Chad Howe
(Ph.D., 2006, The Ohio State University) is associate professor of Spanish and Linguistics at the University of Georgia (USA). His research focuses on language variation and change using sociolinguistic and corpus-based methods.
John M. Lipski
(Ph. D., 1974, University of Alberta) is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University (USA). His research focuses on language contact, utilizing experimental techniques in field settings.
Sean McKinnon
(Ph.D., 2020, Indiana University Bloomington) is assistant teaching professor of Spanish at Arizona State University (USA). His research focuses on language variation and change, with an emphasis on Spanish-Kaqchikel Maya (in Guatemala) and Spanish-English (in the United States) language contact.
Juan Manuel Menjívar
(M.S., Georgetown University), is a Spanish Linguistics Ph.D. candidate at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. His research focuses on Spanish phonetics, Salvadoran Spanish, and Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States.
Jeff Michno
(Ph.D., 2017, University of Texas, Austin) is assistant professor of Spanish and Linguistics at Furman University (South Carolina, USA). His research focuses on sociolinguistic and pragmatic variation, Nicaraguan Spanish, and second language acquisition.
Evan Colby Myers
(B.A., 2021, Furman University) is an editor and writer in Washington, D.C. His work focuses on technology and religion in modern American life.
Érick Pineda
(M.A., University of Colorado, Boulder) is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico (USA). His research focuses on morphosyntax, language variation, and Spanish in contact with the Purépecha language.
Will Przedpelski
(B.S., 2021, Furman University) is a consultant for a turnaround and restructuring firm in New York City, with an avid interest in modern languages. His current work centers around resolving financial and operational problems for distressed businesses.
Miguel Ángel Quesada Pacheco
(Ph.D., 1986, University of Cologne, Germany) is professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Bergen (Norway). His research focuses on Central American Spanish, dialectology, language attitudes and Chibchan languages.
Javier Rivas
(Ph.D., 2003, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain) is associate professor of Hispanic Linguistics at University of Colorado, Boulder (USA). His research focuses on the study of processes of language variation and language change from a functionalist usage-based perspective.
Shannon P. Rodríguez
(Ph.D., 2022, University of Georgia) is a postdoctoral research associate with the Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education (CLASE) at the University of Georgia (USA). Her research focuses on the intersections of language, ethnicity, and identity, specifically regarding Latino English in the Southeastern US.
Lia Slotten
(B.A., 2021, Scripps College) worked as a research assistant for the linguistics department of Pomona College her senior year (California, USA). Her studies included focuses on phonology, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics.
Eva Patricia Velásquez-Upegui
(Ph.D., 2013, El Colegio de México) is profesor of Linguistics at Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (Mexico). Her research focuses on phonetics and phonology, more specifically, in the area of prosody and its relationship to pragmatics and discourse analysis.
Julio Ventura
(M.A, 2002, Real Academia Española, Spain) is professor of Linguistics at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras and former president of the Central American Linguistics Association (ACALing). He specializes in Honduran Spanish and indigenous languages of Honduras.