Emiliana Cruz University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Anthropology 210 Machmer Hall Amherst, MA

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1 Emiliana Cruz University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Anthropology 210 Machmer Hall Amherst, MA HIGHER EDUCATION 2011 Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, Linguistic Anthropology Dissertation: Phonology, Tone and the Functions of Tone in San Juan Quiahije Chatino 2004 M.A. University of Texas at Austin, Linguistic Anthropology Thesis: The Phonological Patterns and Orthography of San Juan Quiahije Chatino 2001 B.A. The Evergreen State College, Anthropology ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2011-present Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Anthropology 2009 Fall Assistant Instructor (AI), University of Texas at Austin, Culture and Communication class 2009 Spring Teaching Assistant (TA), University of Texas at Austin, Culture and Communication class 2007 Fall Teaching Assistant (TA), University of Texas at Austin, Culture and Communication class Language Revitalization Coordinator, Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas (INALI) [Mexican National Institute for Indigenous Languages] RESEARCH INTERESTS Descriptive linguistics and anthropology; language and landscape; language maintenance and revitalization; language politics; indigenous education; language ideologies and language shift; natural discourse and oral literature; the Chatino language family; ideologies and practices of language preservation. GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS External 2014 The Documenting Endangered Languages Fellowship (National Science Foundation). ($50,000) Centro Académico y Cultural San Pablo, Oaxaca, Mexico, in support of indigenous speaker training. ($6000) 1

2 2014 Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indigenas, Mexico, in support of the Tone Workshop for Linguists and Native Speakers of Mesoamerica. ($20,000) 2014 Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indigenas, Mexico, in support of two Chatino Writing Workshops for Chatino Speakers of Oaxaca, Mexico. ($15,000) 2013 Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indigenas, Mexico, in support of the Tone Workshop for Linguists and Native Speakers of Mesoamerica. ($12,000) 2013 Centro Académico y Cultural San Pablo, Oaxaca, Mexico, in support of indigenous speaker training. ($4000) 2012 Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indigenas, Mexico, in support of the Tone Workshop for Linguists and Native Speakers of Mesoamerica. ($40,408) 2012 Centro Académico y Cultural San Pablo, Oaxaca, Mexico, in support of indigenous speaker training. ($3,000) University of Texas at Austin, Research Fellowship, Documentation of Chatino, a language family of Oaxaca, Mexico, Endangered Language Documentation Programme, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London. A. Woodbury, PI. ($60,000) 2007 University of Texas, CILLA Center. The Joel Sherzer Summer Scholarship. ($2,000) National Science Foundation. Graduate Research Fellowship. ($96,000) 2004 University of Texas, Mexican Center. Summer Research: Chatino Language Documentation. ($12,000) 2003 University of Texas, Mexican Center. Republic of México Solidarity Endowed Presidential Scholarship Committee. ($2,000) 2003 University of Texas, College of Liberal Arts. Liberal Arts Graduate Research Fellowship. ($16,000) Internal 2013 Faculty Research Grant, The University of Massachusetts Amherst, The Oaxaca Workshop on Tone for Speaker-linguists of Mesoamerican Languages: A New Model for Linguistic Recruitment and Training. ($7,131) The University of Massachusetts Amherst, Faculty Research Grant through the Healey Endowment, The Tone Systems in the Chatino Language. ($12,000) Chapters PUBLICATIONS AND SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS Accepted for Publication Cruz, Emiliana. Names and Naming in Quiahije Chatino. Fernando Armstrong-Fumero and Julio Hoil Gutierrez (Eds.). Memory and the Politics of Place: Archaeologists, Stakeholders, and the Intangible Heritage of Landscape. The University Press of Colorado. Expected 2014, ms. Papers in Conference Proceedings (Participation in Conference based on Peer-Reviewed abstracts. Published papers not peer-reviewed) 2

3 2014 Cruz, Emiliana and Anthony Woodbury. Collaboration in the Context of Teaching, Scholarship, and Language Revitalization: Experience from the Chatino Language Documentation Project. Proceedings of the Conference on "Language Documentation: Past Future". Organized by The Volkswagen Foundation in Hanover/Germany, June 5-7, Published in Language Documentation and Preservation, at University of Hawaii, Manoa Cruz Emiliana and Anthony C. Woodbury. Finding a way into a family of tone languages: The story of the Chatino Language Documentation Project. Steven Bird and Larry Hyman (Eds.). Language Documentation and Conservation. University of Hawaii Sistema Númerico del Chatino de San Juan Quiahije. [Numeric System of San Juan Quiahije]. In Memorias del Congreso Maria Teresa Fernandez de Miranda. Oaxaca, México. Expected 2014, ms. Cruz, Emiliana and Oscar López. El Sistema Tonal de Yolotepec. ms. Expected August Campbell, Eric and Emiliana Cruz. El Sistema Numérico del Proto-chatino. [Numeric System of Proto-Chatino]. Proceedings of the Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America-IV. Organized by the Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA), Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas. ms. 2008a Noun Possession in Cha7 3 Jnya 24 (Chatino) from Kchin 4 Ky7ya 2 (San Juan Quiahije). Proceedings of the Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America-III. Organized by the Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA), Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas. 2008b Cruz, Emiliana, Hilaria Cruz and Thomas Smith-Stark. Complementación en el Chatino de San Juan Quiahije. [Complementation of San Juan Quiahije Chatino]. Proceedings of the Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America-III. Organized by the Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA), Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas Cruz, Emiliana and Anthony Woodbury. El Sandhi de los Tonos en el Chatino de Quiahije. [Tone Sandhi of San Juan Quiahije Chatino]. In Las Memorias del Congreso de Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica-II. Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Austin, Texas. Research Reports 2012 Etnografía musical de la región chatina. Research Report: Fondo Mixto de Fomento a la Investigación Científica y Tecnología CONACYT Gobierno del Estado de Oaxaca, Invited presentations 2014 Sound Systems of Mexico and Central America. The Tone Systems in the Chatino Language. April Yale University. New Haven, Connecticut. 3

4 2013 Cruz, Emiliana and Anthony Woodbury. Tonal complexity in San Juan Quiahije Eastern Chatino compound verb inflection. SSILA Special Session: Inflectional Classes in the Languages of the Americas. Boston, Massachusetts. 2012a The Oaxaca Workshop on Tone for Speaker-linguists of Mesoamerican Languages: A New Model for Linguistic Recruitment and Training. The Institute for Mesoamerican Studies & the Linguistics Program. Oaxaca, Mexico. 2012b Tonal Contrasts in San Juan Quiahije. Linguistics Department. SUNY Buffalo Cruz, Emiliana; Hilaria Cruz; Anthony Woodbury; Camille Woodbury; Justin McIntosh and Reginaldo Figueroa. Ditransitivos en el Chatino Oriental. Taller de Bitransitividad y Anexos CIESAS-Sureste. San Cristobal de las Casas, México Cruz, Emiliana and Hilaria Cruz. Situación Actual del Chatino. [The Current State of the Chatino Language]. Supervisión de Escuelas Bilingües, Santa Catarina Juquila, Oaxaca, México. 2008a La Educación Indigena en México. [Indigenous Education in México]. In Secretaria de Educacion Publica (SEP) meeting. Organized by Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indigenas (INALI). México City, D.F. 2008b Languages of México. At the University of Tirana (Universiteti i Tiranës). Tirana, Albania. 2008c National Languages of México. International Mother Language Day. Organized by Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indigenas (INALI). ed in Zócalo. México City Zocalo. México City, D.F. 2007a Cortés, Romelia; Emiliana Cruz; Hilaria Cruz and Thomas Smith-Stark. Complementación en cha73 jnya24 (Chatino) de Kchin4 K7ya2 (San Juan Quiahije): II. OKMA, Antigua Guatemala. 2007b Cruz, Emiliana; Frida Cruz; Anthony Woodbury; Camille Woodbury. Linguistics and language activism: A report on the Chatino Language Documentation Project. ed at Columbia University, Linguistics Society of Columbia, New York. 2007c Maintaining and Renewing Chatino Language. Public lecture. The Evergreen State College. Olympia, Washington. Conference ations 2014 Cruz, Emiliana and Luiz Amaral. Los diferentes usos de Gramáticas Pedagógicas: Qué son? Cómo construirlas? Para qué sirven? COLOV VI: Mario Molina Cruz. Oaxaca, Mexico How Much Are You Selling Chatino For? Challenges of Doing Research at Home. American Anthropological Association (AAA), Chicago, IL. 2012a Language, Land, and Local Knowledge in San Juan Quiahije. Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Francisco, CA. 2012b Cruz, Emiliana and Ryan Sullivant. Demostrativos próximos y distales: Un estudio comparativo del uso de demostrativos en el chatino de Quiahije y Tataltepec. [A comparative study of the demonstratives in Quiahije s Chatino and Tataltepec]. Coloquio sobre Lenguas Otomangues y Vecinas V. Oaxaca, Mexico San Juan Quiahije tones: The story of the Chatino Language Documentation Project. University Notre Dame. Symposium on Teaching and Learning Indigenous Languages of Latin America (STLILLA 2011), Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Notre Dame, Indiana. 4

5 2010a La Geografía, la Demografía y la Vitalidad del Chatino. [Geography, Demography and Language Vitality of the Chatino Language]. Coloquio sobre Lenguas Otomangues y Vecinas IV: Thomas Smith Stark. Oaxaca, México. 2010b Names and Naming in Quiahije Chatino. Symposium about Language and Society Austin (SALSA). XVIII Annual Conference: Speech Play and Verbal Art: A Conference in Honor of Joel Sherzer. Austin, Texas. 2009a Cruz, Emiliana; Hilaria Cruz; Anthony Woodbury and Justin D. McIntosh. Chatino Language Documentation Project. Poster. The 33rd annual Maya Meeting. Austin, Texas Cha7 3 Ksya 10 Oradores del Corazón in San Juan Quiahije. [Ritual Prayers of San Juan Quiahije]. Congreso de Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica-I. Austin, Texas Cruz, Emiliana and Hilaria Cruz. Chatino language activism through documentation and training in Cieneguilla and San Juan Quiahije, Oaxaca. Poster, Linguistic Society of America, Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM. Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation Poster Session, organized by Lenore Grenoble and Lindsay Whaley. 2005a Cruz, Emiliana and Anthony Woodbury. The lexical tones of Quiahije Chatino. Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Annual Meeting, at LSA, Oakland, CA. 2005b Status of Indigenous Languages in México. The Evergreen State College. Olympia, Washington. 2005c Cruz, Emiliana and Anthony Woodbury. The lexical tones of Quiahije Chatino. Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Annual Meeting, at LSA. Oakland, California. Fieldwork Research on Language and Landscape of the Chatino Language in Oaxaca, México. Research on Chatino languages (Otomanguean language family) in Oaxaca, México Co-principal investigator, documenting the musical cultures in Oaxaca, Mexico, Etnografía de las Culturas Musicales en Oaxaca. Manuscripts WORKS IN PROGRESS In Preparation Cruz, Emiliana, and Anthony Woodbury. Adjetivos del Chatino de San Juan Quiahije. [Adjectives of San Juan Quiahije Chatino]. Proceedings of the Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America-IV. Organized by the Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA), Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Expected 2015, ms. (Participation in Conference based on Peer-Reviewed abstracts. Published papers not peer-reviewed) In Preparation The Sound Systems of San Juan Quiahije. Ms. Expected February To be submitted to Language. (Peer-reviewed) In Preparation The Patterns of Tone Sandhi in San Juan Quiahije. Ms. Expected March To be submitted to the Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 5

6 In Preparation El sistema Tonal de Santos Reyes Nopala. Ms. Expected July In Preparation The Tone Systems in the Eastern Chatino Language. Ms. Expected March To be submitted to the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. Books In Preparation Chatino Place Names and Local Knowledge: Description, with a Multimedia Documentary Corpus. Expected Will be sent for review to the University of Hawaii; the University of New Mexico Press; and the University of Arizona Press. In Preparation Cruz, Emiliana and Hilaria Cruz. Diccionario del Chatino de San Juan Quiahije. [Dictionary of San Juan Quiahije Chatino]. Manuscript expected Will be sent to the Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indigenas de Mexico for publication. Visual Media Cruz, Emiliana and Gibrán Morales. Documentary film about the documentation and revitalization of the Chatino language. ENGAGED LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY 2014a 2014b 2014c 2014d Instructor, in collaboration with the Centro Académico y Cultural San Pablo, Tone Workshop for Linguists and Native Speakers of Mesoamerica. Taller sobre tonos para lingüistas hablantes de lenguas de Mesoamérica, Mexico (June 2013). Instructor. Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology. Instituto Superior Ayuuk. Oaxaca, Mexico. Instructor. Taller de Chatino, variante de Chatino Oriental. [Grammar workshop of Eastern Chatino]. Santiago Yaitepec, Juquila, Oaxaca, México. (July 25, 2014). Instructor. Taller de Chatino, variante de Chatino Oriental. [Grammar workshop of Eastern Chatino]. Santos Reyes Nopala, Juquila, Oaxaca, México. (August 25, 2014). 2012a Instructor, in collaboration with the Centro Académico y Cultural San Pablo, Tone Workshop for Linguists and Native Speakers of Mesoamerica. Taller sobre tonos para lingüistas hablantes de lenguas de Mesoamérica, Mexico (June 2012). 2012b Trained teachers of an adult literacy program in five Chatino communities (June to August 2012) Cruz, Emiliana; Hilaria Cruz; Anthony Woodbury; Camille Woodbury; Justin McIntosh and Reginaldo Figueroa. Ditransitivos en el Chatino Oriental. [Ditransitive of Eastern Chatino]. Taller de Bisitransitividad y Anexos CIESAS- Sureste. San Cristobal de las Casas, México. ms. 2010a Cruz, Emiliana; Campbell, Eric and Anthony Woodbury. Taller de Gramática del Chatino de Zenzontepec. [Grammar workshop of Zenzontepec Chatino]. San Pedro del Río, Santa Cruz, Zenzontepec, Oaxaca, México. (March 2010). 2010b Cruz, Emiliana and Anthony Woodbury. Taller de Gramática del Chatino de Zacatepec. [Grammar workshop of Zacatepec Chatino]. Jardín Botánico. Oaxaca, México. (April 2010). 2009a Cruz, Emiliana and Anthony Woodbury. Taller de Chatino, variante de Tataltepec. [Grammar workshop of Tataltepec Chatino]. Tataltepec de Valdés, Juquila, Oaxaca, México. (April 2009). 6

7 2008a Transcription and archiving workshop. Agencia de Cieneguilla and San Juan Quiahije, Juquila. Oaxaca, México. (June 2008). 2008b Chatino phonology and writing system workshop. Escuela Normal Bilingüe Intercultural de Oaxaca (ENBIO). Oaxaca, México. (April 2008) 2008c Chatino phonology, syntax, transcription and archiving workshop. Zapotecan Dialect Survey. Terrence Kaufman (coordinator). Oaxaca, México. (June to August 2008) 2007 Chatino grammar workshop. Agencia de Cieneguilla and San Juan Quiahije, Juquila. Oaxaca, México. (June to July 2007) 2006a Chatino phonology and writing system. Agencia de Cieneguilla, San Juan Quiahije. Oaxaca, México. (June 2006) 2006b Chatino phonology and writing system. Agencia de San Marcos Zacatepec, Juquila. Oaxaca, México. (July 2006) 2005 Chatino grammar and language revitalization. Community members of the Agencia de Cieneguilla and San Juan Quiahije, Juquila. Oaxaca, México. (June 2005) 2004 Chatino grammar and language revitalization. Agencia de Cieneguilla and San Juan Quiahije, Juquila. Oaxaca, México. (June 2004) PEDAGOGICAL MATERIALS In progress Pedagogical grammar of San Juan Quiahije Chatino Cruz, Emiliana and Averie Prenguber. The Neighbor s Corn. Trilingual Chatino folk tale. Endangered Languages: Why Do They Matter? class project a Cruz, Emiliana; Gladys Cruz Canseco; Gema Galgani Cruz Cruz; Natalia Salinas Cruz; Elvira Reyes Ramírez; Maricela Aragón Cabrera; Cristiana Peña Cruz; Erica Ramírez Cruz; Alejandrina Feria Cruz; Inés Reyes Cruz and Teresa Baltazar El Sistema Tonal de San Francisco Ixpantepec. Los tonos del chatino oriental de San Francisco Ixpantepec b Cruz, Emiliana; Gladys Cruz Canseco; Gema Galgani Cruz Cruz; Natalia Salinas Cruz; Lourdes Cruz; Inés Cruz Reyes and Teresa Baltazar Los tonos del chatino oriental de Santa María Amialtepec c Cruz, Emiliana; Natalia Salinas Cruz; Lourdes Cruz; Inés Cruz Reyes; Maria de Jesus Cruz Martinez; Maria Cortes Justo; Angela Justo Cortes; Brigida Dominguez Matias; Sonia Guadalupe Justo and Isaura de los Santos Mendoza Los tonos del chatino oriental de San José Ixtapan a Cruz, Emiliana; Hilaria Cruz and Anthony Woodbury. Volantes Chatinos: Lecciones sobre la escritura y la gramática del chatino de Quiahije. [Teaching materials for San Juan Quiahije Chatino]. Chatino Language Documentation Project. University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas b Campbell, Eric and Emiliana Cruz. Libro para Colorear. Variante Zenzontepec. [Coloring book of Zenzontepec Chatino]. Chatino Language Documentation Project. University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas. 7

8 2010c 2009a 2009b 2009c 2008a 2008b 2008c 2008d 2008e 2008f 2008g 2007a 2007b Cruz, Emiliana and Stéphanie Villard. Cha7tñan no ndikwi7 naten Tsi. [Alphabet booklet] México City: Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indigenas (INALI). México City, D.F. Lengua chatino, manual de ejercisios, variante de San Juan Quiahije: Ktyi2 cha73 7ne 24 x7an 20 ren7 24 cha7 3 jnya 24 (2009). Chatino Language Documentation Project. University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas. Cruz, Emiliana and Anthony Woodbury Lengua Chatino Manual de ejercicios, variante Tataltepec de Valdés. [Pedagogical Materials for Tataltepec de Valdes]. Chatino Language Documentation Project. University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas. Cruz, Emiliana; Ryan Sullivant and Anthony Woodbury. Lista de palabras Conjugacionés de verbos de la variante de Tataltepec. [Verb conjugation of Tataltepec Chatino]. Chatino Language Documentation Project. University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas. Escritura de la lengua Chatino: Manual de Ejercicios, Variante San Juan Quiahije. [Pedagogical Grammar for San Juan Quiahije Chatino]. Chatino Language Documentation Project. University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas. yjan 4 tkwa 24 me 1 ndwa 0 sno7 20 Calendario [2008 Calendar]. Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas (INALI). México City, D.F. Libro para Colorear Tataltepec Chatino. [Coloring book for Tataltepec Chatino]. Encuesta zapotecana, Documentación de la las lenguas Mesoamericanas (PDLMA). Oaxaca, México. Cruz, Emiliana and Terrance Kaufman. Libro para Colorear Zoque. [Coloring book for Zoque]. Encuesta zapotecana, Documentación de la las lenguas Mesoamericanas (PDLMA). Oaxaca, México. Tone analysis, Panixtlahuaca variety. Handout. Chatino Language Documentation Project. University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas. Tone analysis, Tataltepec variety. Handout. Chatino Language Documentation Project. University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas. Cruz, Emiliana; Hilaria Cruz; Woodbury, Anthony and Justin McIntosh. Volantes Chatinos: Propuestas sobre la Escritura del Chatino de Santa Lucía Teotepec. [Practical Orthography of Santa Lucía Teotepec Chatino]. Chatino Project, University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas. Tone analysis, Santa Lucía Teotepec variety. Handout. Chatino Language Documentation Project. University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas. Translation of children s story: Turtle s Flute. WEBSITES TEACHING 8

9 Teaching Interests Language and Landscape, Descriptive Linguistics, Otomanguean Languages, Language Documentation and Revitalization, Languages of Mexico and Guatemala, Ideologies and Practices of Language Preservation, Indigenous Education, Endangered Languages, Language Ideologies, Language Politics, The Dirty War in Mexico, Ethnomusicology, Gossip and Humor Courses Taught (University of Massachusetts Amherst unless otherwise noted) Spring Theory and Methods in Linguistic Anthropology. Course number/level: 697/graduate. 15 students enrolled. Spring Gossip and Humor. Course number/level: 297/undergraduate. 24 students enrolled. Fall 2011, Fall Languages of Mexico and Guatemala. Course number/level: 397/undergraduate. 26 students enrolled in 2011; 13 students enrolled in Spring 2012, Spring Endangered Languages: Why Do They Matter? Course number/level: 497/undergraduate. 5 students enrolled in 2012; and 13 enrolled in Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Fall Language in Culture and Society. Course number/level: 360/undergraduate. 30 students enrolled in Spring 2012; 33 students enrolled in Spring 2013; 30 students enrolled in Fall Fall Digital Methods in Linguistic Anthropology. Course number/level: 597/graduate. 4 students enrolled. Fall Language and Landscape. Course number/level: 497/undergraduate. 10 students enrolled. Fall Ideologies and Practices of Language Preservation. Course number/level: 597/graduate. 7 students enrolled. Fall 2009 Introduction to Linguistics. Course number/level: 307/undergraduate. University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas. Student Committees PhD student Lynn Hou, University of Texas at Austin. Linguistics. (Committee member) PhD student Ashley Sherry, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Anthropology. (Committee member) PhD student Karla Sarr, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Education. (Committee member) MA student Castriela Hernandez, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Anthropology. (Committee member) MA student Ana Smith, Universidad de México, UNAM. Geography. (Committee member) Department SERVICE Local Human Subjects Review Officer, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst Annual Faculty Review (ad hoc), Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Campus 9

10 Member, Search Committee, The Spanish and Portuguese Program in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Massachusetts Amherst Steering Committee Member of the Certificate Program in Native American Indian Studies. Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Phonetics/Phonology Reading Group member. UMass Funny Languages Breakfast. Five Colleges Five College Native American Indian Studies Committee Member. Five Colleges Prosody Community member. Professional Co-chair, organizer for all sessions on the Linguistics, languages and language policy theme at the XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. San Juan, Puerto Rico Article Peer-Reviewer. Zapotec. The International Journal of the Sociology of Language; theme: Indigenous Languages in Contact Member, Steering Committee, Center for Indigenous Languages of Latino America (CILLA). The University of Texas at Austin Researcher and trainer for the Chatino language. Project for the Documentation of the Languages of Mesoamerica (PDLMA). Chatino Spanish English LANGUAGES PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Anthropological Association (Member) Latin American Studies Association (Member) Linguistic Society of America (Member) 10