Graduate Advising

Alexandre Alves Santos. Research project: Lexical Development and Oral Fluency in Portuguese Heritage Speakers.

Isaura de los Santos. Research project: Community Early Literacy Projects for Language Revitalization in Chatino (Otomanguean).

Jaqueline Ionson. Research project: Reading Comprehension in Portuguese Heritage Speakers.

Carlos Flores Quispe: Research project: Bolivian Quechua Transmission and Language Program Development.

Carla Costa: Research project: Community Language Transmission in Brazilian Indigenous Populations.

María Teresa Megía Céspedes. Research: Spanish and Portuguese SLA (TBA)

Marco Túlio Bittencourt (2025). PhD dissertation: Correlations Between Morphological Awareness and Reading Comprehension in Adult Heritage Learners of Portuguese.  (Currently: Lecturer in Spanish at Baylor U.)

Isaac McAlister (2024). PhD dissertation: A More 'Perfect' Union: Acquisition by L1 Speakers of Brazilian Portuguese of the Present Perfect in Spanish and English. (Currently: Researcher at Hartford HealthCare)

Ana Alonso (2021) - PhD dissertation: The Acquisition of Positional Verbs in Yalalag Zapotec by Bilingual Children. (Currently: Assistant Professor at University of Querétaro - Mexico)

Andie Faber (2017) - PhD dissertation: Assigning Grammatical Gender to Novel Nouns in L1 and L2 Spanish. (Currently: Associate Professor at Kansas State University) 

Esther Castro Cuenca (2017) PhD dissertation: Clítico de Acusativo como Introductor de Construcciones Aplicadas en Español. (Currently: Spanish Language Program Director at Mt. Holyoke College)

Bridget Pinsonneault (2016) - PhD dissertation: The Effect of Enhancing Learner Input via Computer Assisted Language Learning Tools: On the Acquisition of Clitics by Spanish Second Language Learners. (Currently: Spanish Curriculum Coordinator and English Learner Educational Director at Sabis Educational Systems)

Jon Nelson (2016) (co-advisor with Prof. Tom Roeper) - PhD dissertation: First and Second Language of Recursive Operations: Two Studies.

Maria Turrero García (2015) - PhD dissertation: How Far Can They Go? Non-native speakers of Spanish and Wh-questions. (Currently: Associate Teaching Professor at Drew University) 

Beatriz Pariente (2013) - PhD dissertation: Rethinking Translation in the Second Language Classroom. (Currently: Spanish Language Program Director at Carlton College)

Brian Boisvert (2011) - PhD dissertation: The Relationship Between Implicit and Explicit Feedback Episodes, Student Uptake and Repair. (Currently: Associate Professor at State University of New York Fredonia)

Maria de Nazaré Moraes da Silva (2019) (co-advisor with Prof. Marília Ferreira - UFPA). Research project: Second Language Instruction in Parakatêjê.

Márcia Nascimento (2017) (co-advisor with Prof. Marcus Maia - UFRJ) - PhD dissertation: Evidenciadade em Kaingang: Descrição, Processamento e Aquisição. (Postdoctoral researcher at UFRJ - Brazil)

Raquel Lawal (co-advisor with Prof. Marcus Maia - UFRJ) (2014) - O Processamento do Clítico SE Incoativo e Télico em Espanhol como L1 e como L2. (Associate Professor at Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora - Brazil)