CILLA

CILLA Steering Committee

• Megan Crowhurst, Assistant Professor of Linguistics. Specializes in Bolivian indigenous languages; phonology, speech perception.
  
  
• Emiliana Cruz, doctoral student, Department of Anthropology. Speaker of Chatino from Oaxaca, Mexico.
  
  
• Patience Epps, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics. Specialist in Amazonian languages, linguistic typology, languages in contact.
  
  
• Charles R. Hale, Associate Professor of Anthropology. Areas of expertise are Latin America and the Caribbean; identity politics, consciousness and resistance, activist anthropology.
  
  
• Telma Can Pixabaj, graduate student, Department of Linguistics. Speaker of K’ichee’ (Mayan) from Guatemala.
  
  
• Joel Sherzer, Professor Emeritus. Specialist in North and South American Indian languages, Kuna; linguistic anthropology, ethnography of speaking.
  
  
• David Stuart, Linda and David Schele Chair in the Art and Writing of Mesoamerica, Department of Art and Art History. Expert in Mayan and Mesoamerican writing, ancient Mayan history and archaeology.
  
  
• Gerald Torres, H. O. Head Centennial Professor in Real Property Law, School of Law. Areas of expertise in critical race theory, agricultural and environmental law.
  
  
• Anthony C. Woodbury, Professor. Specialist in Native American linguistics, Eskimo; grammatical theory, field linguistics, oral discourse.