Name & Program

Research Interests

Evan Ashworth, PhD Linguistics program

Evantheus "at" gmail.com

Language Ideologies, language revitalization, Native American languages

Clayton Beckner,  PhD Linguistics program

coogle "at" unm.edu

Computational linguistics, syntax and semantics, corpus analyses, frequency effects, speech errors

Jalon Begay, MA Linguistics program

jalon1978 "at" unm.edu

Navajo linguistics, Indigenous language revitalization, polysynthesis, languages of the Americas, Pan-Mayan Movement, Linguistic Activism

Catherine Berkenfield  PhD Linguistics program catieb "at" unm..edu

Susan Buescher MA Linguistics program

suesmb "at" unm.edu

Discourse analysis, semantics, Native American languages, grammaticization

Nathan Bush PhD Linguistics program

nathan12 "at" unm.edu

Keith Cagle PhD Educational Linguistics

kcagle "at" unm.edu

Martina Carlson MA Linguistics program

mlcasl "at" unm.edu

1st and 2nd language acquisition; language delays and disabilities; signed language phonology

Pei-Ni Causarano Lin PhD Educational Linguistics    pcausara "at" unm.edu

TESOL, Language Assessment, Sociolinguistics

Marie Chavez PhD Educational Linguistics    mchave14 "at" unm.edu

Melvatha Chee MA Linguistics program

mchee "at" unm.edu

Dine bizaad language learning and acquisition, Child Language development, Sociolinguistics, Morphology, Language revitalization and maintenance.

Nikita Chinenkov MA Linguistics program

nchinenk "at" unm.edu

Carol Christensen PhD Educational Linguistics    christen "at" unm.edu

Ruth Cisneros MA Linguistics program

ruthec "at" unm.edu

Paul De Palma PhD Linguistics program
mateo78 "at" unm.edu

Paul Edmunds PhD Linguistics program
pedmunds "at" unm.edu

Language acquisition, bilingualism, Spanish linguistics, phonetics, motor speech disorders

Grandon Goertz MA Linguistics program
sordfish "at" unm.edu

Corpus linguistics, Semantics, Discourse analysis

Ernest Herrera MA Linguistics program
eherrera "at" hpc.unm.edu

Computational linguistics, cognitive linguistics, semantics, and psycholinguistics

Briony Jones MA Linguistics program
briony "at" unm.edu

Brant Kay MA Linguistics program
bkay "at" unm.edu

Iphigenia Kerfoot MA Linguistics program
ikerfoot "at" unm.edu

Bettina Kimpton MA Linguistics program
kimpton "at" unm.edu

Michele Kiser MA Linguistics program
mkiser1 "at" unm.edu

Brittany Kubacki PhD Linguistics program
tyhei "at" unm.edu

Corpus Linguistics, History of English, Emergent Grammar, Discourse Analysis, Native American Languages

Tae Kunisawa PhD Educational Linguistics   

 tkuni "at" unm.edu

Psycholinguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Gesture and Gesture Imitation

Andrew Lavelle PhD Linguistics program
lavelle "at" unm.edu

Katy Lente MA Linguistics program
klente "at" unm.edu

Mami McCraw PhD Educational Linguistics     mamimc "at" unm.edu

Discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, Japanese linguistics, and second language acquisition

Dustin McLaws MA Linguistics program
dustinm "at" unm.edu

Ana Medina-Murillo PhD Linguistics program
amedinam "at" unm.edu

Experimental Phonetics, Phonology, Word Formation, Uto-Aztecan languages, Historical Linguistics

Steven Menefee MA Linguistics program
smenefee "at" unm.edu

Susan Metheny PhD Educational Linguistics    susanwm "at" unm.edu

Discourse analysis, therapeutic discourse, cognitive linguistics, child language development, interdisciplinary research.

Brenda Nicodemus PhD Educational Linguistics    brendan "at" unm.edu

Barbara O'Dea PhD Educational Linguistics   odeab "at" unm.edu

Bilingual-bicultural Deaf education, language attitudes, and the development of pedagogy for children entering school without age-appropriate first language mastery.

Mae Sands MA Linguistics program
msands "at" unm.edu

Daniel Sanford PhD Linguistics program
dsanford "at" unm.edu

Metaphor, Corpus linguistics, Language Evolution, Sociolinguistics of New Mexico

Christopher Shank PhD Linguistics program
chrc "at" unm.edu

Cognitive syntax and semantics, metaphor theory, corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, bilingualism sociolinguistics, pragmatics

Michael Schwartz PhD Educational Linguistics   m_schwartz2004 "at" yahoo.com

Second language acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Multicultural education and literacy

Benjamin Sienicki PhD Educational Linguistics     bsienick "at" unm.edu

Agripino Silveira PhD Linguistics program
agripino "at" unm.edu

Portuguese, Phonology, Syntax, and Second Language Acquisition

Lauren Smith PhD Educational Linguistics
lsmith6 "at" unm.edu

Second language acquisition, Adult ESL, Teacher training

Natalya Stukova PhD Linguistics program
stukova "at" unm.edu

Logan Sutton PhD Linguistics program
ldsutton "at" unm.edu

Kiowa-Tanoan & Caddoan synchronic & comparative historical work, Language revitalization, Typology, Native American Languages, Languages of the SW

Hien Thi Tran MA Linguistics program
hien "at" unm.edu

Teruo Ueno PhD Educational Linguistics
tueno "at" kusw.ac.jp

Simoni Valadares PhD Linguistics program
simoni "at" unm.edu

Descriptive Linguistics & Categorization, Arawakan Languages, Sociolinguistics,  Language Policy, Revitalization & Maintenance

Gabriel Waters PhD Linguistics program
gwaters "at" unm.edu

Erin Wilkinson PhD Linguistics program
ewilkins "at" unm.edu

Cross-linguistic studies on signed languages, Iconicity, Semantics, Metaphor

Jay Williams PhD Linguistics program
jswill "at" unm.edu

Native American languages, Dine Linguistics, Cognitive Grammar, Metaphor & Metonymy, Navajo place names, Anthropological linguistics