Interests

As a researcher, my primary interest lies in the study of the US-Mexico Borderlands through the lens of sociocultural linguistics, with a theoretical orientation both eclectic and cross-disciplinary. In my exploration of the intersection of language, culture, and society in the US Latino community, I contextualize my research using perspectives from sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, critical discourse analysis, Marxism, and Chicano studies.

Besides US Spanish, I have also conducted (mostly unpublished) research on consonant reduction in American English, teaching methodologies for Navajo, Western Keres, and other Indigenous languages, and the demonstrative system of iKalanga (a Bantu language spoken in Botswana and Zimbabwe).