Indigenous Scholar

Indiana University Bicentennial Professor
Associate Professor of Literacy, Culture, and Language Education
School of Education, Indiana University, USA

I hope that multiple ways of knowing, seeing and being in the world will continue to be vibrant for generations to come.

Research

Areas of Expertise

Educational linguistics and sociolinguistics

Research Interests

  • Documentation and revitalization of Indigenous languages in the Americas
  • Bilingual and multilingual education
  • Bilingualism and multilingualism 
  • Indigenous literacies in the Americas
  • Language attitudes and ideologies 
  • Indigenous language regimes
  • Language, media and technology
  • Language maintenance and shift
  • Language contact phenomena
  • Language, culture and identity in the Andes and beyond
  • Linguistic landscapes
  • Policies and politics of language
  • Translingual literacies 
  • World languages
  • World Englishes

My research is from multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinary perspectives, drawing on fields as diverse as:

  • Macro- and micro-sociolinguistics
  • Educational linguistics
  • Language education
  • Applied linguistics
  • Linguistic anthropology
  • Andean Studies
  • Indigenous Studies
  • Latin American Studies
  • Literacy Studies