Director
Lab Manager
Claudia Holguín Mendoza (Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) is an Associate Professor of Spanish linguistics at the University of California, Riverside. She specializes in sociolinguistics of race in the Mexican borderlands and Greater Mexico, and critical pedagogies for teaching Spanish as a heritage language. Her work is published in English and Spanish, appearing in journals like International Multilingual Research Journal, Hispania, and others.
María earned a LL.B. from Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia and specialized in Constitutional Law and Political Science at the CEPC in Madrid, Spain. She later earned an MA in Spanish at UCR and is currently a Ph.D. ABD candidate in the Hispanic Studies Department at UCR. Her research interests include language ideologies, bilingualism, and discrimination against Latinx communities in jury selection, with a focus on the manipulation of language in the legal system.
Faculty/Graduate Researchers
Postdoctoral Scholar
Assistant Professor of Mexican American/Chicano history at the University of California, Riverside, focusing on transnational youth cultures and Southern California Latina/o/x communities.
Postdoctoral Scholar in Spanish Critical Sociolinguistics and Language Education, focusing on disability critical and raciolinguistic perspectives.
Allied Faculty
Alumni
Assistant Professor in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at California State University, East Bay, focusing on language and cognition in bilinguals and multilinguals.
Assistant Professor of Spanish linguistics at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater, focusing on critical pedagogies and immigration discourse analysis.
Spanish SLA, Yale University
Diseno y Arquitectura, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California
History, University of Oregon