• Congratulations to our newly minted PhD: Dr. Elisabeth Baker Martínez! Elisabeth is headed to UTEP in August to begin her position as a tenure-track Assistant Professor

• Congratulations to the following students who are graduating with their MA: Liliana Alva Regalado, Abigail Bowen, Gisell Cereceres Barrera, María Domínguez, Fernando García Quezada, Logan Moses,and Shane Saddison-Bradford.

• Welcome new students!! We're so happy you've joined us!

• Congratulations to newly minted PhDs: Dr. Len Beké and Dr. Mario Del Ángel Guevara completed their PhDs in Hispanic Linguistics in 2023!

• Congratulations to Leticia Rinaldi Souza, who completed her MA in Hispanic Linguistics in 2023 and to Luisa Hurtado, who also completed her MA in Hispanic Linguistics in 2023 and is now pursuing the MA in Portuguese at UNM.

• Congratulations to the Hispanic Linguistics MA students who graduated this Spring 2022 semester! Kory Apodaca Córdova, Andrea Duarte, Sarah Lease, & Peter Wood

• Congratulations to Sarah Lease for publishing her journal article "Spanish in Albuquerque, New Mexico: Spanish-English Bilingual Adults' and Children's Vocalic Realizations"!

• Congratulations to all the UNM students who presented at LASSO 2021 (Linguistic Association of the Southwest): Len Beké, Karol Ibarra Zetter, Sarah Lease, Mariana Marchesi, David Páez, and Kelsey Treviño. Way to represent!

• Congratulations to PhD Candidate Elisabeth Baker, whose article ¡Casi te caístes!: Variation in second person singular preterit forms in Spanish Children was published in the Journal of Child Language.

• Welcome to our new grad students: Érick Pineda, Leticia Rinaldi Souza, and Luisa Hurtado Iglesias!

• Congratulations to Carlos Enrique Ibarra, who got a job as the new Spanish Language Coordinator at Louisiana State University!

• Congratulations to Isabel Last and Miguel Roman for getting 2nd place in the Comcast Pitch Competition and $5,000 for their language learning video game, Faena!

• Congratulations to PhD Candidate Carlos Enrique Ibarra, whose LAII Fellowship was renewed and who will present "Intergenerational Linguistic Identity, Attitudes, Usage, and Language Preservation among Bilingual and Trilingual Mixtecos in Woodburn, Oregon" the LAII PhD Fellows Colloquium on Friday, April 2 at 3:30 pm.

• Isabel Last and Kory Apodaca will present “Rates of Non-Inversion in Wh- Questions between Caribbean and NonCaribbean Artists in Reggaeton Lyrics" at the 55th annual SCOLAS conference Happy conferencing!

• Isabel Last and Miguel Roman, along with Prof. Christopher Holden, have been accepted to the Lobo Rainforest’ I-Corps funding and startup training program for their language learning video game ‘Faena’. Congratulations, Isabel and Miguel!

• Isabel Last received a CTL 2021 Fellowship to create workshops aimed at helping TAs in the Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese increase student participation in online classes. Congratulations, Isabel!.

• Elisabeth Baker passed her doctoral QP and comprehensive exams and is officially ABD! Congratulations, Elisabeth!

• Eva Rodríguez González was awarded UNM's 2020 Outstanding Teacher of the Year award ! Congratulations!

• Naomi Shin was interviewed for Isogloss, a journal of Romance Linguistics

• Congratulations to Mario Del Angel Guevara, who advanced to candidacy in April 2020. Mario's PhD Dissertation focuses on the Nuevomexicano lexicon.

• The 7th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language, hosted by Professor Damián Vergara Wilson and his organizing committee (Carlos Enrique Ibarra and Claire Wimborne) and held in Albuquerque in February 2020, was a terrific success!!!

• Congratulations to Hispanic Linguistics PhD students Ana Martínez de Figueroa and Mario Del Angel Guevara, who both passed their doctoral comprehensive exams.

• Congratulations to Hispanic Linguistics PhD candidate Carlos Enrique Ibarra, who received a Newberry Consortium for American Indian and Indigenous Studies fellowship for their Summer Institute in Chicago!

• Congratulations to Desirée Ramírez Urbaneja and Josefina Bittar. Both were selected to be 2019-2020 LAII Fellows!

• Congratulations to PhD student Len Beké for being selecting to present his work “The Manito Topos Project - Recovering the traditional place names of the Pecos Wilderness” at the Graduate Education Day in the Capitol Rotunda, Santa Fe on February 11, 2019!

• Congratulations to PhD student Mario Del Angel, who received a conference scholarship from the New Mexico Association of Museums!

• The Celebrate Bilingualism and New Mexican Spanish event on Thursday, Nov. 8 from 5-7 pm was a huge success with over 100 people in attendance!

• Congratulations to MA student Rosa Elena Prada Vivas for being selected as a 2018-2019 Fellow in the Summa Academia program, a joint initiative between the Division of Equity and Inclusion, ENLACE Statewide Collaborative and El Centro de la Raza.

• Congratulations to Dr. Rodríguez-González for being selected as an Academic Affairs Core Curriculum Faculty for 2018-2019 in community Engaged Learning and Research.

• Dr. Rodríguez-González has received Quality Matters national certification for best online teaching practices in Teaching Assistant Master Courses- Beginning I and II online courses at UNM. Congratulations, Dr. Rodríguez-González!

• The Fall 2018 semester has begun. Welcome to all our new students! We are thrilled to have you join us here at UNM!

• Congratulations to Karol Ibarra and Rebeca Martínez Gómez who published the article "Funciones y duración de o sea: datos del corpus conversacional Tapatío" in the journal Anuario de Letras of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico.

• PhD students Karol Ibarra and David Paez published the article "Rhythm on 4 Colombian Languages" in the journal Forma y Función of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. ¡Felicitaciones!

• QUERENCIAS is the conference hosted by The Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Association at UNM, in Albuquerque, April 13-14, 2018. It welcomes submissions from Hispanic Literature, Hispanic Linguistics, Portuguese Literature, and Southwest and Latin American Studies. Details conference website here.

• Monday 1/29, 12 pm, ORT 335: Professor Esther Brown (Univeristy of Colorado, Boulder) will give a talk entitled ""How frequent or how likely? Mapping experience in variable forms”.

• Congratulations to Prof. Richard File Muriel who, in collaboration with students Molly Perara-Lunde, and Jessica Lindsey, published the article Voiced Onset Timing in the English of Spanish Heritage Speakers in the journal Interacción from Universidad Libre en Bogotá, Colombia.

• Congratulations to Prof. Richard File-Muriel whose faculty-led study abroad program “Culturas indígenas en Colombia” has been awarded an additional 11k from the Office of Academic Affairs! The purpose of this funding is to make the program more affordable for students. More details can be found in the Program website and in this video.

• Congratulations to Prof. Richard File-Muriel whose study abroad program Culturas Indígenas en Colombia was selected for funding through the Latin American & Iberian Institute.

• Prof. Naomi Shin, in collaboration with Danny Erker (BU), Ricardo Otheguy (CUNY), and Eduardo Ho-Fernández (CUNY), published the article Continuity and Change in Spanish among Cubans in New York: A Study of Subject Placement with Finite Verbs in a volume on Cuban Spanish.

• Congratulations to PhD student Mario Del Angel Guevara whose letter was selected among 300 submitted for the Spring-Summer 2017 issue of the International Student Voice Magazine.

• Naomi Shin, in collaboration with Barbara Shaffer and Jill Morford in Linguistics, received a Women in STEM Faculty Development Research Grant for their proposal "Minority Language Development: How do Children Acquire Grammar When Exposure to Language is Limited?"

• Prof. Naomi Shin, in colaboration with UNM alumni Mary Hudgens Henderson, published the article A sociolinguistic approach to teaching Spanish grammatical structures. Foreign Language Annals. 2017.

• Congratulations to MA grad Jennifer Arnason on being awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship from the LAII to study Portuguese.

• The LINGUIST List showcased Professor Rosa Vallejos as one of the Featured Linguists of 2017. Read her inspiring story!

• Please consider coming to UNM as a research fellow to study NM Spanish. Apply for the Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar award. This year special consideration will be given to projects that focus on the NM Spanish corpora, such as at the NMCOSS! Applications due March 31.

• Friday 12/09, 3pm, ORT 335: Professor José Ignacio Hualde (Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) will give a talk entitled "Stressing the wrong syllAble in Spanish”.

• Congratulations to Prof. Richard File-Muriel who was awarded a grant from UNM’s Study Abroad Allocations Committee to develop a study abroad program in Bogotá and Medellín, Colombia!

• Congratulations to PhD candidate Karol Ibarra Zetter who was granted a scholarship to attend the Columbia School Institute on Functional Semiotic Approaches to Grammar, in New York, from January 9-12, 2017.

• Prof. Naomi Shin, in collaboration with PhD student Jackelyn Van Buren, published the article “Maintenance of Spanish subject pronoun expression patterns among bilingual children of farmworkers in Washington/Montana.” Spanish in Context, 2016.

• Prof. Richard J. File-Muriel, in collaboration with Prof. Joan Bybee and PhD student Ricardo de Souza, published the article "Special reduction: a usage-based approach.” Language and Cognition. 2016.

• Prof. Eva Rodríguez González, in collaboration with Martha Castañeda, published the article “The Effects and Perceptions of Trained Peer Feedback in L2 Speaking: Impact on Revision and Speaking Quality.” Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching. 2016.

• PhD candidate Michael R. Woods and Prof. Naomi Shin published the article “Fijáte... sabes que le digo yo... Salvadoran tuteo and voseo in Oregon" in In M.I. Moyna & S. Rivera-Mills (eds), Forms of Address in the Spanish of the Americas. John Benjamins. 2016.

• Congratulations to Prof. Rosa Vallejos for her recently published book “A Grammar of Kukama-Kukamiria: A language from the Amazon”. Leiden: Brill. 2016.

• Prof. Richard J. File-Muriel published the article ”The effect of variable intercepts on findings in sociophonetic data: Some observations from Caleño Spanish.” in collaboration with Gradoville, Michael S., and Earl K. Brown. Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science. 2015.

• Saturday 04/23/16, 5pm. UNM Hispanic Linguistics Spring Social! We look forward to congratulating students who are graduating this year and to welcoming new students.

• Thursday 04/28/16, 4-5:30pm, DSH 123: Dr. Katherine O’Donnell Christoffersen (Hisp Ling Visiting Scholar) will give a talk entitled You live in the United States, You speak English", decían las maestras: How New Mexican Spanish speakers enact, ascribe and reject ethnic identities.

• Congratulations to Prof. Damian Wilson and Carlos Ibarra, Hisp Ling PhD grad, on their article “Understanding the inheritors: The perception of beginning-level students toward their Spanish as a Heritage Language program” published in EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages.

• Congratulations to Mary Hudgens Henderson, Hisp Ling PhD candidate, for being awarded one of the Graduate Student Success Scholarships. here at UNM.

• Wednesday 11/04, 4-5pm, DSH 125: Professor Kim Potowski (Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago) gave a talk entitled "Soy los dos: Spanish and identity among MexiRicans".

• Friday 11/06, 2-3pm, HUM 134: Professor Hiroto Uchihara (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico-UNAM) gave a talk entitled "Tone, phonation and registrogenesis in Central Zapotec".