Damian Vergara Wilson
Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Coordinator of Sabine Ulibarri Spanish as a Heritage Language Program
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Education
PhD, University of New Mexico, 2009
MA, University of New Mexico, 2003
BUS, University of New Mexico, 1999
Biography
Damián Vergara Wilson (Ph.D. University of New Mexico) is the coordinator of the Sabine Ulibarrí Spanish as a Heritage Language Program. His main areas of research and teaching are historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and sociology of language. One of his chief goals is to use these areas of study to support and inform the field of teaching of Spanish as a heritage language in the Southwest. A second goal is to advance research that examines the utility of usage-based theories of linguistic representation as accounting for language change and variation. He also applies a combination of his expertise as an expert witness in federal court cases involving bilingual interactions with police that result in miscommunications and ambiguity.Research Interests
- Sociolinguistics
- Sociology of language
- Historical linguistics
- Language change
- Spanish as a Heritage Language
- Hispanic Linguistics
- Language and Law
- Forensic Linguistics
Contact
damianvw@unm.edu
Phone: 505-277-5907
Fax: 505-277-3885
Physical Address
Room
417
Ortega Hall
Building #
79 on the UNM map
Mailing Address
MSC03-2100
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1070
