Linguistics

Jill P. Morford, Chairperson
Humanities Bldg. 526
MSC03 2130, Linguistics
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
(505) 277-6353 Fax (505) 277-6355
e-mail: linguist@unm.edu
Web site: http://ling.unm.edu/

Professors
Jill P. Morford, Ph.D., University of Chicago
Barbara J. Shaffer, Ph.D., University of New Mexico

Associate Professors
Holly Jacobson, Ph.D., University of Arizona
Christian Koops, Ph.D., Rice University
Naomi Lapidus Shin, Ph.D., The Graduate Center at the City University of New York
Caroline L. Smith, Ph.D., Yale University
Rosa Vallejos Yopán, Ph.D., University of Oregon
Erin Wilkinson, Ph.D., The University of New Mexico

Assistant Professor
Melvatha Chee, Ph.D., The University of New Mexico

Senior Lecturers
Dawn Myers, M.S., University of New Mexico

Lecturers
Christena Griffin, M.A., Gallaudet University
Amanda D. Lujan, NIC, M.S., University of Northern Florida
Dawn Nordquist, Ph.D., University of New Mexico

Professors Emeriti
Melissa Axelrod, Ph.D., University of Colorado (Boulder)
Garland D. Bills, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Joan L. Bybee, Ph.D., University of California (Los Angeles)
William Croft, Ph.D., Stanford University
Eduardo Hernández Chávez, Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Phyllis Perrin Wilcox, Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Sherman E. Wilcox, Ph.D., University of New Mexico

Adjunct Faculty
Paul Edmunds, Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Ian Maddieson, Ph.D., University of California (Los Angeles)

Associated Faculty in Other Departments
Pisarn Bee Chamcharatsri, Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania (English & LLSS)
Richard File-Muriel, Ph.D., Indiana University at Bloomington (Spanish and Portuguese)
Tania Ivanova-Sullivan, Ph.D., Ohio State University (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
Barbara Rodriguez, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, University of Washington (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
Eva Rodríguez-Gonzáles, Ph.D., University of Kansas (Spanish and Portuguese)
Emma Trentman, Ph.D., Michigan State University (Foreign Languages and Literatures – Arabic)
Damián Vergara Wilson, Ph.D., University of New Mexico (Spanish and Portuguese)

Introduction

The UNM Department of Linguistics is the only degree-granting linguistics program in one of the most multilingual and multicultural states in the U.S. The Department offers two minors (Linguistics, Navajo), two majors (Linguistics, Signed Language Interpreting), a Masters (Linguistics) and a PhD (Linguistics). The department strengths in cognitive-functional linguistics, typology, language documentation, and language variation are all highly relevant to the cultural and linguistic diversity of the state, and lay the groundwork for guiding the university’s student population to a nuanced understanding of language, identity and power. Faculty expertise in Navajo, varieties of Spanish, indigenous languages of the Americas, and signed languages (American Sign Language, in particular) is essential to the Department’s efforts to train students to conduct research on language structure and use, while also serving society on language-related issues. Graduates specialize in Cognitive Linguistics, Health Disparities & Health Discourse, Hispanic Linguistics, Language Contact, Language Documentation & Fieldwork, Navajo Linguistics, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Signed Language Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Sociophonetics, and Typology.

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