Recuperación de la Lengua
Christian Ruvalcaba
Research interests: Linguistics and grammar, linguistic landscapes, heritage languages, participatory action research and pedagogy, place-meaning research, language teaching, place-based learning.
Dr. Ruvalcaba received a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona in 2018 and a BA in Linguistics in 2008. He is from Cananea, Sonora, and Sierra Vista, Arizona. His teaching and research focus on the role of language in place-meaning and place-making for communities of color. He also researches how languages express location/place and how the grammar of these expressions overlap with other notions, such as possession and experience. He is the co-founder of the Language Capital Project, an ongoing project that investigates multilingual spaces in Tucson, Arizona. He is also a member of the Language Society of America’s Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics. Currently, he is a research coordinator for the Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry.
Michael Everdell
Research interests: linguistics, lexical semantics, Uto-Aztecan languages, irregularity, historical linguistics.
Michael is in the process of earning his Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin working with John Beavers and earned his BA in Anthropology at Oberlin College in 2013. He is from Boston, MA. His dissertation is on the properties of argument realization and agreement in O’dam (Southeastern Tepehuan), spoken in Durango, Mexico. He has also worked on reconstructing verbal suppletion in the Uto-Aztecan family and statistical methods for determining the internal organization of the Uto-Aztecan family.
Otros Académicos que Apoyan a la Opateria
Joe Barron
Intereses de investigación: ecología, evolución, herpetología, conservación de especies en peligro y sistemática.
Joe está en proceso de obtener su maestría en Pesca y Ciencias de la Vida Silvestre de Virginia Tech. Nacido en una familia militar, afirma que Washington, DC es su ciudad natal y recibió una licenciatura en biología de la Universidad de Cornell. Joe ha pasado varios años trabajando en proyectos que se centran en pequeños humedales aislados y las comunidades únicas que los habitan. Su investigación actual se centra en la conservación de las tortugas pantanosas, una especie críptica y en peligro de extinción que se encuentra en las montañas Blue Ridge. Utilizando una combinación de encuestas de campo y software SIG, observa los factores que influyen en el lugar donde se encuentran en el paisaje para identificar hábitats críticos y prioridades de manejo para el estado. Joe valora conectar a las comunidades con sus recursos naturales, y ha estado involucrado en muchos programas de divulgación como Alleghany Nature Pilgrimage, Cornell Naturalist Practicum y Cornell Herpetological Society.
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