Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

43 results found

College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences: Anthropology College of Humanities: Spanish & Portuguese

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James Allison

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
894 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Small-scale societies of the southwest
- Quantitative Methods
- Ceramic Analysis
- Archaeological Theory

Scott Alvord

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3162 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Spanish phonetics
- Spanish phonology
- Spanish in the United States
- Second language acquisition

Patricia Baialuna de Andrade

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3145 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Brazilian writing
- German

Jaime Bartlett

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
870 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Anthropology
- Anglo-Saxon Archaeology
- Archaeology

Blair Bateman

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3157 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Portuguese teaching
- Dual language immersion education
- Language awareness among returned missionaries
- Interpretive research paradigms

Barbara Bonyata

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
3168 JFSB

Will Carr

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3144 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Humor studies
- Humor in translation pedagogy
- Dictatorship humor
- Political humor
- Humor in/and translation
- Translator subjectivities
- Translator ethics

Zachary Chase

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
882 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Andes

Michael Child

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3161 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Second language acquisition
- Third language acquisition
- Corpus linguistics
- Sociolinguistic variation
- Language contact
- Portuguese for Spanish speakers
- Dual Language immersion

John E. Clark

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
876 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Mesoamerica
- American History

David Crandall

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
820 KMBL

Research Interests:
- African Folktales
- Himba Flora Taxonomy and Herbal Medicines
- Africa
- Human Moral Knowledge

Willis Fails

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3167 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Phonetics and phonology of Spanish
- Phonetics and phonology of Portuguese
- Experimental phonetics

Cynthia S. Finlayson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
882 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Archaeological excavation
- Cultural heritage site development
- Syria and Jordan

Mara Garcia

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3150 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Latin American Narrative
- Theater
- Latin American female writers
- Latin American fantastic literature

Daryl Hague

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3163 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Translation pedagogy
- Translation theory
- Legal translation

Anna-Lisa Halling

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3181 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Iberian women writers
- Theater
- Spatial theory
- Feminist theory

Valerie Hegstrom

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3148 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Women's studies
- Spanish Golden Age

Jacob R. Hickman

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
860 KMBL

Research Interests;
- How the processes of migration, displacement, and diaspora affect a host of cultural and psychological phenomena
- Transnational ethnographic fieldwork with Hmong communities in both southeast Asia and the west
- Religion, ritual practice, family life, moral thinking, and personhood
- Religious dynamics that are emerging in the Hmong diaspora, which include messianic movements, new forms of transnational ritual networks, and changing religious ideologies and practices
- Comparative fieldwork in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China, the United States, and other areas where the Hmong have resettled

Tomas Hidalgo Nava

College: College of Humanities
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
3168 JFSB

David J. Johnson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
892 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Cultures associated with the Red Sea area and their involvement in long distance trade from the earliest period through the Islamic Period
- Effects of long distance trade contacts on religious ideology and social organization

Jordan Jones

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3151 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Human rights
- Contemporary literature/culture
- Nineteenth century antislavery texts
- Translation and digital humanities
- Inter-American literature

Nieves Knapp

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3171 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Intercultural Communication
- Language Teaching Methodology
- Materials Development

Erik Larson

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3160 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Contemporary narrative from Latin America
- Detective Fiction
- Critical Theory

Samuel Lopez Alcala

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3146 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Translation history
- Translation theory

Rob Martinsen

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3143 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Language learning in study abroad
- Culture learning in study abroad
- Use of technology in language learning and teaching

Cherice Montgomery

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese

Research Interests:
- Creativity
- Design-based pedagogies
- Experiential learning
- Project-based learning
- Literacy
- Twenty-first Century skills development
- Curriculum development
- Mentoring
- Leadership
- Professional development

Rex Nielson

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3149 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Nineteenth century Luso-Afro-Brazilian literature and culture
- Twentieth century Luso-Afro-Brazilian literature and culture
- Twenty-first Luso-African-Brazilian literature and culture
- Environmental Humanities
- Gender and Masculinity studies
- Foreign Language and Literature Pedagogy
- Translation

Charles W. Nuckolls

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
894 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Anthropological studies of causal thinking and explanation in India
- Nationalism in Japan
- Psychiatric classification and diagnosis in the U.S. and New Zealand.

Elsa Perez

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3075 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Editing

Dale Pratt

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3147 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Protohumans in Spain
- Posthumans in Spain

Brian Price

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3158 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Scholarship and teaching in twentieth and twenty-first century Mexican cultural production
- Scholarship and teaching in twentieth and twenty-first century Spanish American cultural production
- Literary and cultural theory
- Intellectual and national histories
- Countercultural movements
- Urban youth cultures
- Intersections between literature, music, film

Michael T. Searcy

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
820 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Social processes associated with the Viejo (AD 700-1200) and Medio Periods (AD 1200-1450) of the Casas Grandes tradition, which flourished in the northwestern portion of modern-day Chihuahua, Mexico
- Causes linked to transitions in sociopolitical organization and structural transformations
- Long-distance interaction
- Iconographical analysis
- Ground stone analysis
- Ethnoarchaeology
- Fremont archaeology

Lin Sherman

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3165 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Eighteenth Century Spanish literature
- Nineteenth Century Spanish Literature
- Medieval literature
- Literary Theory
- Twenty-first century novel

Rob Smead

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3153 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Anglicisms
- Hispanicisms
- Spanish and Hispanics in Hawaii
- Mood in the Nominal Clause in Spanish
- Corpus Linguistics
- Baseball vocabulary in Spanish

Gregory Stallings

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3166 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Twentieth-Century Spanish Poetry
- Critical Literary Theory

Robert Strong

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3175 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Applied linguistics
- Linguistics
- Phonetics
- Phonology
- Sociolinguistics

Greg Thompson

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3173 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Spanish teaching and learning
- Service learning in the language classroom
- Second language education

Gregory Thompson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
880 KMBL

Research Interests:
- The intersection of anthropology, language, education, and communication with a broad focus on the mediating role of cultural contexts in human interaction
- Discourse analytic methods drawn from linguistic anthropology
- Micro-cultural contexts
- Motivation and engagement
- Psychological anthropology
- How education and learning are accomplished in actual teaching/learning interactions
- American cultural contexts
- African-American settings
- American cultural meanings of race and class

Lauren Truman

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3155 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Language use
- Dual language education
- Pronunciation instruction
- Multi-literacies

Jeff Turley

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3190B JFSB

Research Interests:
- Transcription and Translation of Early Modern Spanish Expansion Documents
- Transcription and Translation of Early Modern Portuguese Expansion Documents
- Spanish syntax Spanish semantics
- English lexical semantics

Doug Weatherford

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3169 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Twentieth century Spanish American Narrative
- Hispanic film
- Colonial Literature
- Historical novel

Lynn Williams

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3179 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Language and nationality
- Centers of linguistic prestige
- Language policy and planning
- Orthographic theory and practice
- Seventeenth century diplomatic and political history

Mac Wilson

College: Humanities
Department: Spanish & Portuguese
3142 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Twentieth century Spanish American literature and culture
- Twenty-first century Spanish American literature and culture
- Southern Cone literature and culture
- Ecocriticism
- Poetry
- Visual culture
- Regional literature
- Environmental Humanities