Glenn Martinez
Dean, College of Liberal and Fine Arts, Modern Languages and Literatures
Contact
- glenn.martinez@utsa.edu
- Curriculum Vitae
- MH 4.02.23
Bio
Glenn Martinez is Dean of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts and Professor of Spanish, Bicultural/Bilingual Studies and Public Health at UTSA. In addition to leading the college, Dr. Martinez regularly teaches courses in Spanish and Medical Humanities and collaborates on research projects within COLFA and in the wider San Antonio and South Texas communities.Research Interests
- Spanish in Healthcare
- Spanish in the United States
- Spanish as a Heritage Language
- Language Policy and Planning
Degrees
- MPH in Border Health, Texas A&M University (2011)
- PhD in Hispanic Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2000)
- MA in Spanish Linguistics, University of Houston (1996)
- BA in Spanish, University of Texas Pan American (1994)"
Honors and Awards
2021. Stumberg Distinguished University Chair. University of Texas at San Antonio.
2019. Alumni Distinguished Award for Outstanding Teaching. Office of Academic Affairs. The Ohio State University.
2015. Latino of the Year. The Hispanic Latino Network. Wexner Medical Center. The Ohio State University.
2015. Project Director. “Addressing Emerging Needs in the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese: The Ohio State University Spanish and Portuguese GAANN Project,” Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Program. U.S. Department of Education. Total Direct Cost: $600,000.
2011. Finalist for outstanding program to increase opportunities and achievement among Latino students at the Baccalaureate level. 2011 Examples of Excelencia. Excelencia in Education. Washington, DC.
2006. Provost’s Award for International Studies. The University of Texas Pan American.
2004. Distinguished Achievement in Humanities Educational Outreach Award. College of Humanities. University of Arizona.
1999-2000. Kenyon Dissertation Fellowship. Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio.
Presentations
Bridging and Bonding: Latinx social capital in the classroom and beyond. Spanish Heritage Language Direction Network and LatCrit Sociocultural Linguistic Lab at UCR. Virtual Symposium. Aug 19, 2022.
Pandemia, public health, and applied linguistics: Reflections on language and Latino health in and beyond los tiempos del COVID. Plenary Address. Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Pittsburgh PA, Mar 19-22, 2022.
Language concordance, heritage language health professionals and Latino health. Plenary presentation. 7th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, Feb 27-29, 2020.
Language and Latino Health. Keynote presentation. 23rd Annual Spring Spanish and Latin American Colloquium. “Innovative pedagogy and Spanish for the professions.” Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, February 6-9, 2019.
Lenguaje, latinidad y salud latina. Invited panel on Español en los Estados Unidos. VIII Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española, Córdoba, Argentina, March 27-30, 2019.
Pandemia, public health, and applied linguistics: Reflections on language and Latino health in and beyond los tiempos del COVID. Plenary Address. Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Pittsburgh PA, Mar 19-22, 2022.
Language concordance, heritage language health professionals and Latino health. Plenary presentation. 7th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, Feb 27-29, 2020.
Language and Latino Health. Keynote presentation. 23rd Annual Spring Spanish and Latin American Colloquium. “Innovative pedagogy and Spanish for the professions.” Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, February 6-9, 2019.
Lenguaje, latinidad y salud latina. Invited panel on Español en los Estados Unidos. VIII Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española, Córdoba, Argentina, March 27-30, 2019.
Grants, Patents and Clinical Trials
2022. Project Director. Global Competency in Health Humanities: Internationalizing UTSAs Medical Humanities Program. Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program. US Department of Education. Total Direct Cost: $191,000
2020. Co-Principal Investigator. Documenting of Latina/os/x in Ohio stories during COVID-19 through performed storytelling. COVID-19 Special Grants Competition. The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme. Total Direct Cost: $18,000.
2020. Principal Investigator. Formal evaluation of the IMPACT partnership. Office of Outreach and Engagement. Total Direct Cost: $10,000.
2020. Principal Investigator. Social vulnerability, sociolinguistic environment and COVID-19 information for Spanish speakers. COVID-19 Seed Funding Program. Office of Research. Total Direct Cost: $30,000.
2020. Principal Investigator. “Engaging Language Professionals for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research with Latinos.” Eugene Washington Engagement COVID-19 Enhancement Award. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. EA-8488-TOSU. Total Direct Cost: $130,000.
2018. Principal Investigator. “Engaging Language Professionals for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research with Latinos.” Eugene Washington Engagement Award. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. EA-8488-TOSU. Total Direct Cost: $246,928.
2018. Co-Investigator. “A secondary analysis to identify HPV vaccination disparities across Hispanic subgroups in the United States.” NIH/NIMHD R21MD012800. Total Direct Cost: $250,000. (Paul Reiter, PI).
2018. Principal Investigator. “The Ohio Heritage Language Summit.” Ohio Humanities. Total Direct Cost: $15,000.
2017. Project Lead. “Building infrastructure for patient-centered comparative effectiveness research on language access for patients with Diabetes.” Pipeline to Proposal Tier 2 Award. Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Total Direct Cost: $25,000.
2016. Project Lead. “Building infrastructure for patient-centered comparative effectiveness research on language access for patients with Diabetes,” Pipeline to Proposal Tier 1 Award. Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Total Direct Cost: $15,000.
2016. Project Director. “Heritage Language Health Professions Corps,” Impact Grant Program. Office of Outreach and Engagement. The Ohio State University. Total Direct Cost: $45,000.
2015. Project Director. “Addressing Emerging Needs in the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese: The Ohio State University Spanish and Portuguese GAANN Project,” Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Program. U.S. Department of Education. Total Direct Cost: $600,000.
2014. Senior Principal Investigator. “The Midwest Heritage Language Network,” a project funded by the Humanities Without Walls consortium. Total Direct Cost: $20,000.
2014. Multiple Principal Investigator. Integrated Second Language Learning for Chronic Care: A model to improve primary care for Hispanics with diabetes. NIH/NIDDK R01DK104648. Annual Direct Cost: $352,811. Total Direct Cost: $1,660,539. (MPI with Usha Menon).
2014. Co-Principal Investigator. The Midwest Heritage Language Network. Humanities Without Walls The Global Midwest Seed Grant. (with Diane Birckbichler). Total Direct Cost: $5000.
2009. Co-Principal Investigator. Pathways to the Professoriate: A Model of Collaborative Doctoral Education. Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education – Special Focus Competition. United States Department of Education (with Nicolás Kanellos). Total Direct Cost: $292,974.
2009. Co-Principal Investigator. Festival of International Books and Arts 2010: Remembering the Revolution: A Study of the Impact of the Mexican Revolution. Humanities Initiatives for Faculty at Hispanic Serving Institutions. National Endowment for the Humanities. (with Dahlia Guerra and Sonia Hernandez). Total Direct Cost: $100,000.
2008. Pan American Workshop on Applied Linguistics. Secretaría de Educación del Estado de Nuevo León (with Perla Ivette Portales Orozco). Total Direct Cost: $25,600.
2008. Health Communication Research Centre Summer School. Cardiff University. Faculty Development Council. University of Texas Pan American. Total Direct Cost: $3,000.
2007. New Connections Research and Coaching Clinic. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Total Direct Cost: $1,000.
2007. Principal Investigator. Medical Spanish for Heritage Learners: Advanced Language Skills for Quality Health Care. Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education – Comprehensive Program. United States Department of Education. Total Direct Cost: $442,000.
2006. Co-Principal Investigator. University of Texas Pan American Integrated Global Knowledge and Understanding Center for Academic Excellence. United States Intelligence Community. (with Van Reidhead, Sandra Hansmann, Constantine Tarawaneh, and Stephanie Brickman). Total Direct Cost: $2,500,000.
2006. Principal Investigator. Integrating Latin American Studies into the University Mission. Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program. United States Department of Education. (with Ethan Sharp) Total Direct Cost: $165,000
20006. Medical Interpreting Training Institute. Faculty Development Council. University of Texas Pan American. $1,968.
2004. Career Development Fund. College of Humanities. University of Arizona. $3,000.
2003. Co-Principal Investigator. Arizona Board of Regents. Learner-Centered Education Grant. (with Javier Durán). “Crossing Borders: Creating Collaborative Learning Communities across Cultures and Competencies”. $25,000.
2020. Co-Principal Investigator. Documenting of Latina/os/x in Ohio stories during COVID-19 through performed storytelling. COVID-19 Special Grants Competition. The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme. Total Direct Cost: $18,000.
2020. Principal Investigator. Formal evaluation of the IMPACT partnership. Office of Outreach and Engagement. Total Direct Cost: $10,000.
2020. Principal Investigator. Social vulnerability, sociolinguistic environment and COVID-19 information for Spanish speakers. COVID-19 Seed Funding Program. Office of Research. Total Direct Cost: $30,000.
2020. Principal Investigator. “Engaging Language Professionals for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research with Latinos.” Eugene Washington Engagement COVID-19 Enhancement Award. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. EA-8488-TOSU. Total Direct Cost: $130,000.
2018. Principal Investigator. “Engaging Language Professionals for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research with Latinos.” Eugene Washington Engagement Award. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. EA-8488-TOSU. Total Direct Cost: $246,928.
2018. Co-Investigator. “A secondary analysis to identify HPV vaccination disparities across Hispanic subgroups in the United States.” NIH/NIMHD R21MD012800. Total Direct Cost: $250,000. (Paul Reiter, PI).
2018. Principal Investigator. “The Ohio Heritage Language Summit.” Ohio Humanities. Total Direct Cost: $15,000.
2017. Project Lead. “Building infrastructure for patient-centered comparative effectiveness research on language access for patients with Diabetes.” Pipeline to Proposal Tier 2 Award. Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Total Direct Cost: $25,000.
2016. Project Lead. “Building infrastructure for patient-centered comparative effectiveness research on language access for patients with Diabetes,” Pipeline to Proposal Tier 1 Award. Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Total Direct Cost: $15,000.
2016. Project Director. “Heritage Language Health Professions Corps,” Impact Grant Program. Office of Outreach and Engagement. The Ohio State University. Total Direct Cost: $45,000.
2015. Project Director. “Addressing Emerging Needs in the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese: The Ohio State University Spanish and Portuguese GAANN Project,” Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Program. U.S. Department of Education. Total Direct Cost: $600,000.
2014. Senior Principal Investigator. “The Midwest Heritage Language Network,” a project funded by the Humanities Without Walls consortium. Total Direct Cost: $20,000.
2014. Multiple Principal Investigator. Integrated Second Language Learning for Chronic Care: A model to improve primary care for Hispanics with diabetes. NIH/NIDDK R01DK104648. Annual Direct Cost: $352,811. Total Direct Cost: $1,660,539. (MPI with Usha Menon).
2014. Co-Principal Investigator. The Midwest Heritage Language Network. Humanities Without Walls The Global Midwest Seed Grant. (with Diane Birckbichler). Total Direct Cost: $5000.
2009. Co-Principal Investigator. Pathways to the Professoriate: A Model of Collaborative Doctoral Education. Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education – Special Focus Competition. United States Department of Education (with Nicolás Kanellos). Total Direct Cost: $292,974.
2009. Co-Principal Investigator. Festival of International Books and Arts 2010: Remembering the Revolution: A Study of the Impact of the Mexican Revolution. Humanities Initiatives for Faculty at Hispanic Serving Institutions. National Endowment for the Humanities. (with Dahlia Guerra and Sonia Hernandez). Total Direct Cost: $100,000.
2008. Pan American Workshop on Applied Linguistics. Secretaría de Educación del Estado de Nuevo León (with Perla Ivette Portales Orozco). Total Direct Cost: $25,600.
2008. Health Communication Research Centre Summer School. Cardiff University. Faculty Development Council. University of Texas Pan American. Total Direct Cost: $3,000.
2007. New Connections Research and Coaching Clinic. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Total Direct Cost: $1,000.
2007. Principal Investigator. Medical Spanish for Heritage Learners: Advanced Language Skills for Quality Health Care. Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education – Comprehensive Program. United States Department of Education. Total Direct Cost: $442,000.
2006. Co-Principal Investigator. University of Texas Pan American Integrated Global Knowledge and Understanding Center for Academic Excellence. United States Intelligence Community. (with Van Reidhead, Sandra Hansmann, Constantine Tarawaneh, and Stephanie Brickman). Total Direct Cost: $2,500,000.
2006. Principal Investigator. Integrating Latin American Studies into the University Mission. Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program. United States Department of Education. (with Ethan Sharp) Total Direct Cost: $165,000
20006. Medical Interpreting Training Institute. Faculty Development Council. University of Texas Pan American. $1,968.
2004. Career Development Fund. College of Humanities. University of Arizona. $3,000.
2003. Co-Principal Investigator. Arizona Board of Regents. Learner-Centered Education Grant. (with Javier Durán). “Crossing Borders: Creating Collaborative Learning Communities across Cultures and Competencies”. $25,000.
Publications
"Books
2022. Health Disparities and the Applied Linguist. (with Maricel Santos, Rachel Showstack, Dalia Magaña, and Drew Colcher). New York: Routledge.
2020. Spanish in Healthcare: Policy, Practice and Pedagogy in Latino Health. Series: Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Portuguese Linguistics. Series Editor: Dale Koike. Routledge.
2020. Tension and Contention in Language Education for Latinxs in the United States: Experience and Ethics in Teaching and Learning. (co-authored with Robert Train). Series: Language Education Tensions in Global and Local Contexts. Series Editors: Guadalupe Valdés and Reynaldo Macías. Routledge and Center for Applied Linguistics.
2006. Mexican Americans and Language: Del dicho al hecho. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.
Edited Collections
Forthcoming. Handbook of Language, Public Health and Health Care. (co-edited with Pilar Ortega, Maichou Lor, and Susana Ramirez). Hoboken NJ: Wiley.
2014. Language and Borders, International Perspectives. A special issue of The International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Number 227.
2008. Recovering the US Hispanic Linguistic Heritage. Houston: Arte Público Press. (Co-Editors, Alejandra Balestra and Maria Irene Moyna)
2003. Border Talk: Language issues on the U.S.-Mexico border. A special
issue of Rio Bravo: A Journal of Borderlands.
Chapters in scholarly books and monographs
2021. El español para fines específicos y los programas de lengua de herencia: El capital social en el aula y más allá. In Torres J & Pascual y Cabo D (Eds) El Español como lengua de herencia. Series: Advances in Spanish Language Teaching. Series Editor: Javier Muñoz Basols. Routledge.
2020. Constructing La Villa Hispana: Cultural citizenship, economic development and linguistic landscaping in Ohio. In F. Salgado Robles & E. Lamboy, eds. Spanish across Domains in the United States: Education, public spaces and social media. Leiden: Brill Publishers (with Elena Foulis).
2018. Spanish for the professions and community service learning: Applications with heritage learners. In K. Potowski, ed. The Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language. New York: Routledge, pp. 389-402. (With Ann Abbott)
2018. Langauge and borders: Case studies from the U.S. Southwest. In E. Núñez-Méndez, (Ed). Bilingualism and Spanish in Contact: Sociolinguistic Case Studies. New York: Routledge, pp. 9-26.
2018. Language and Power in a Medical Spanish for Heritage Learners Program: A Learning by Design Perspective. In G. Zapata and M. Lacorte, (Eds). Multiliteracies Pedagogy and Language Learning: Teaching Spanish to Heritage Speakers. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 107-128. (with Karmín San Martín).
2016. Goals and Beyond in Heritage Language Education: From Competencies to Capabilities. In S. Beaudrie and M. Fairclough (Eds.) Innovative Approaches in HL Pedagogy: From Research to Practice. Washington DC: Georgetown UP, pp. 39-54.
2014. Spanish in the Health Professions. In M. Lacorte (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics. New York: Routledge, pp. 410-437.
2014. Azucarao: Tato Laviera and the poetics of health promotion. In W. Luis and S. Alvarez (Eds.) The AmeRícan Poet: Essays on the Work of Tato Laviera. New York: CENTRO Press, pp. 172-182.
2013. Public health and the politics of Spanish in early 20th century Texas. In J. Del Valle (Ed.) A Political History of Spanish: The Making of a Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 293-304.
2013. Política e ideología del lenguaje en la atención sanitaria para hispanohablantes en los Estados Unidos. In D. Dumitrescu (Ed.) El español en los Estados Unidos ¿E pluribus unum? New York: Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, pp. 233-250.
2012. Policy and Planning Research for Spanish as a Heritage Language. In M. Fairclough and S. Beaudrie, (Eds.). Spanish as a Heritage Language: State of the Science. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, pp 61-78.
2010. Language and Power in Healthcare: Towards a theory of language barriers among linguistic minorities in the United States. In J. Watzke, P. Chamness Miller & M. Mantero, (Eds.). Readings in Language Studies Volume 2: Language and Power. Saint Louis: International Society for Language Studies, pp. 59-74.
2010. Medical Spanish for Heritage Learners: A Prescription to Improve the Health of Spanish-Speaking Communities. S. Rivera-Mills and J. Trujillo, eds. Building Communities and Making Connections. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 2-15.
2010. Documenting the Past, Envisioning the Future: The Historical Sociolinguistics of Spanish in the U.S. Southwest. S. Rivera-Mills and D. Villa, eds. Spanish of the Southwest: A Language in Transition. Madrid: Iberoamericana, pp. 17-24.
2010. El lenguaje en la frontera. A. Rodriguez and L. Garcia, eds. Cruzando el umbral de la palabra: Estudios críticos de literatura y lenguaje. Monterrey: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, pp. 55-67.
Refereed journal articles
2023. Efficacy of a language-concordant health coaching intervention for latinx with diabetes. Patient Education and Counseling (with Usha Menon, Laura Szalacha, Margaret Graham, Jose Pares-Avila, Kaitlyn Rechenberg and Leah Stauber).
2022. Recognizing and dismantling raciolinguistic hierarchies in Latinx health. AMA Journal of Ethics. (with Pilar Ortega, Alejandra Zapien-Hidalgo, Marco Aleman, and Tiffany Shin).
2021. Rethinking the term “limited English proficiency” to improve language-appropriate healthcare for all. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. (with Pilar Ortega and Tiffany Shin).
2021. Feasibility and acceptability of a language concordant health coaching intervention delivered by nurses for Latinx with type 2 diabetes. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing 18: 210-216 (with K Rechenberg, L Szalacha, M Graham, L Stauber and U Menon).
2020. Provider recommendation for HPV vaccination across Hispanic/Latinx subgroups in the United States. Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics 17:1083-1088. (with Paul Reiter, Michael Pennell and Mira Katz).
2020. Incorporate language in medical education to address structural barriers to care during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Academic Medicine 96: e10-e11. (with Pilar Ortega, Tiffany Shin, and Cristina Perez-Cordon).
2020. Communicating and Coaching in Spanish for Chronic Care. Journal of Nursing Education. (with Jose Pares-Avila, Margaret Graham, Leah Stauber, Laura Szalacha, and Usha Menon).
2020. Virtual medical Spanish education at the corazón of Hispanic/Latinx health during COVID-19. Medical Science Educator 39: 1-6. (with Pilar Ortega, Tiffany Shin, and Cristina Perez Cordon).
2020. Language and health equity during COVID-19: Lessons and opportunities. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 31: 1530-1535 (with Pilar Ortega and Lisa C. Diamond.)
2020. Scoping review: Definitions and outcomes of patient-provider language concordance in health. Patient Education and Counseling 103: 1883-1901 (with Maichou Lor).
2020. HPV vaccine coverage across Hispanic subgroups in the United States. Cancer Causes and Control 31:905-914. (with Reiter PL, Pennell ML, Perkins RB & Katz ML).
2019. Communication pitfalls in interpreted genetic counseling sessions. Journal of Genetic Counseling 28:4 (with Rachel Ault, Ana Morales, Russell Ault and Allison Spitale).
2019. Living into immigrant communities through hospitality practice: A Christian ethical approach to community service learning. Journal of Christianity and World Languages (with Elena Foulis)
2016. Against Medical Spanish: Spanish in the health professions yesterday, today, and tomorrow. ADFL Bulletin 44:1.
2013. Innovative approaches to promote a culturally competent and diverse health care workforce at a Hispanic Serving Institution. Academic Medicine 88: 12 (with Suad Ghaddar, John Ronnau, and Shawn Saladin).
Refereed electronic publications
2018. Nurses’ perspectives on language standardization in health care: The silencing of bilingual health providers. Heritage Language Journal 15 pp. 297-318 (with Carmen King de Ramirez)
2014. Vital Signs: A photovoice assessment of the linguistic landscape in Spanish in healthcare facilities along the U.S.-Mexico border. International Journal of Communication and Health.
2012. Elevating “low” language for high stakes: A case for critical, community-based learning in a Medical Spanish for heritage learners program. Heritage Language Journal 9 (with Adam Schwartz).
2003. “Classroom based dialect awareness: A Critical applied linguistic approach”. Heritage Language Journal 1.
2022. Health Disparities and the Applied Linguist. (with Maricel Santos, Rachel Showstack, Dalia Magaña, and Drew Colcher). New York: Routledge.
2020. Spanish in Healthcare: Policy, Practice and Pedagogy in Latino Health. Series: Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Portuguese Linguistics. Series Editor: Dale Koike. Routledge.
2020. Tension and Contention in Language Education for Latinxs in the United States: Experience and Ethics in Teaching and Learning. (co-authored with Robert Train). Series: Language Education Tensions in Global and Local Contexts. Series Editors: Guadalupe Valdés and Reynaldo Macías. Routledge and Center for Applied Linguistics.
2006. Mexican Americans and Language: Del dicho al hecho. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.
Edited Collections
Forthcoming. Handbook of Language, Public Health and Health Care. (co-edited with Pilar Ortega, Maichou Lor, and Susana Ramirez). Hoboken NJ: Wiley.
2014. Language and Borders, International Perspectives. A special issue of The International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Number 227.
2008. Recovering the US Hispanic Linguistic Heritage. Houston: Arte Público Press. (Co-Editors, Alejandra Balestra and Maria Irene Moyna)
2003. Border Talk: Language issues on the U.S.-Mexico border. A special
issue of Rio Bravo: A Journal of Borderlands.
Chapters in scholarly books and monographs
2021. El español para fines específicos y los programas de lengua de herencia: El capital social en el aula y más allá. In Torres J & Pascual y Cabo D (Eds) El Español como lengua de herencia. Series: Advances in Spanish Language Teaching. Series Editor: Javier Muñoz Basols. Routledge.
2020. Constructing La Villa Hispana: Cultural citizenship, economic development and linguistic landscaping in Ohio. In F. Salgado Robles & E. Lamboy, eds. Spanish across Domains in the United States: Education, public spaces and social media. Leiden: Brill Publishers (with Elena Foulis).
2018. Spanish for the professions and community service learning: Applications with heritage learners. In K. Potowski, ed. The Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language. New York: Routledge, pp. 389-402. (With Ann Abbott)
2018. Langauge and borders: Case studies from the U.S. Southwest. In E. Núñez-Méndez, (Ed). Bilingualism and Spanish in Contact: Sociolinguistic Case Studies. New York: Routledge, pp. 9-26.
2018. Language and Power in a Medical Spanish for Heritage Learners Program: A Learning by Design Perspective. In G. Zapata and M. Lacorte, (Eds). Multiliteracies Pedagogy and Language Learning: Teaching Spanish to Heritage Speakers. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 107-128. (with Karmín San Martín).
2016. Goals and Beyond in Heritage Language Education: From Competencies to Capabilities. In S. Beaudrie and M. Fairclough (Eds.) Innovative Approaches in HL Pedagogy: From Research to Practice. Washington DC: Georgetown UP, pp. 39-54.
2014. Spanish in the Health Professions. In M. Lacorte (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics. New York: Routledge, pp. 410-437.
2014. Azucarao: Tato Laviera and the poetics of health promotion. In W. Luis and S. Alvarez (Eds.) The AmeRícan Poet: Essays on the Work of Tato Laviera. New York: CENTRO Press, pp. 172-182.
2013. Public health and the politics of Spanish in early 20th century Texas. In J. Del Valle (Ed.) A Political History of Spanish: The Making of a Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 293-304.
2013. Política e ideología del lenguaje en la atención sanitaria para hispanohablantes en los Estados Unidos. In D. Dumitrescu (Ed.) El español en los Estados Unidos ¿E pluribus unum? New York: Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, pp. 233-250.
2012. Policy and Planning Research for Spanish as a Heritage Language. In M. Fairclough and S. Beaudrie, (Eds.). Spanish as a Heritage Language: State of the Science. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, pp 61-78.
2010. Language and Power in Healthcare: Towards a theory of language barriers among linguistic minorities in the United States. In J. Watzke, P. Chamness Miller & M. Mantero, (Eds.). Readings in Language Studies Volume 2: Language and Power. Saint Louis: International Society for Language Studies, pp. 59-74.
2010. Medical Spanish for Heritage Learners: A Prescription to Improve the Health of Spanish-Speaking Communities. S. Rivera-Mills and J. Trujillo, eds. Building Communities and Making Connections. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 2-15.
2010. Documenting the Past, Envisioning the Future: The Historical Sociolinguistics of Spanish in the U.S. Southwest. S. Rivera-Mills and D. Villa, eds. Spanish of the Southwest: A Language in Transition. Madrid: Iberoamericana, pp. 17-24.
2010. El lenguaje en la frontera. A. Rodriguez and L. Garcia, eds. Cruzando el umbral de la palabra: Estudios críticos de literatura y lenguaje. Monterrey: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, pp. 55-67.
Refereed journal articles
2023. Efficacy of a language-concordant health coaching intervention for latinx with diabetes. Patient Education and Counseling (with Usha Menon, Laura Szalacha, Margaret Graham, Jose Pares-Avila, Kaitlyn Rechenberg and Leah Stauber).
2022. Recognizing and dismantling raciolinguistic hierarchies in Latinx health. AMA Journal of Ethics. (with Pilar Ortega, Alejandra Zapien-Hidalgo, Marco Aleman, and Tiffany Shin).
2021. Rethinking the term “limited English proficiency” to improve language-appropriate healthcare for all. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. (with Pilar Ortega and Tiffany Shin).
2021. Feasibility and acceptability of a language concordant health coaching intervention delivered by nurses for Latinx with type 2 diabetes. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing 18: 210-216 (with K Rechenberg, L Szalacha, M Graham, L Stauber and U Menon).
2020. Provider recommendation for HPV vaccination across Hispanic/Latinx subgroups in the United States. Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics 17:1083-1088. (with Paul Reiter, Michael Pennell and Mira Katz).
2020. Incorporate language in medical education to address structural barriers to care during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Academic Medicine 96: e10-e11. (with Pilar Ortega, Tiffany Shin, and Cristina Perez-Cordon).
2020. Communicating and Coaching in Spanish for Chronic Care. Journal of Nursing Education. (with Jose Pares-Avila, Margaret Graham, Leah Stauber, Laura Szalacha, and Usha Menon).
2020. Virtual medical Spanish education at the corazón of Hispanic/Latinx health during COVID-19. Medical Science Educator 39: 1-6. (with Pilar Ortega, Tiffany Shin, and Cristina Perez Cordon).
2020. Language and health equity during COVID-19: Lessons and opportunities. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 31: 1530-1535 (with Pilar Ortega and Lisa C. Diamond.)
2020. Scoping review: Definitions and outcomes of patient-provider language concordance in health. Patient Education and Counseling 103: 1883-1901 (with Maichou Lor).
2020. HPV vaccine coverage across Hispanic subgroups in the United States. Cancer Causes and Control 31:905-914. (with Reiter PL, Pennell ML, Perkins RB & Katz ML).
2019. Communication pitfalls in interpreted genetic counseling sessions. Journal of Genetic Counseling 28:4 (with Rachel Ault, Ana Morales, Russell Ault and Allison Spitale).
2019. Living into immigrant communities through hospitality practice: A Christian ethical approach to community service learning. Journal of Christianity and World Languages (with Elena Foulis)
2016. Against Medical Spanish: Spanish in the health professions yesterday, today, and tomorrow. ADFL Bulletin 44:1.
2013. Innovative approaches to promote a culturally competent and diverse health care workforce at a Hispanic Serving Institution. Academic Medicine 88: 12 (with Suad Ghaddar, John Ronnau, and Shawn Saladin).
Refereed electronic publications
2018. Nurses’ perspectives on language standardization in health care: The silencing of bilingual health providers. Heritage Language Journal 15 pp. 297-318 (with Carmen King de Ramirez)
2014. Vital Signs: A photovoice assessment of the linguistic landscape in Spanish in healthcare facilities along the U.S.-Mexico border. International Journal of Communication and Health.
2012. Elevating “low” language for high stakes: A case for critical, community-based learning in a Medical Spanish for heritage learners program. Heritage Language Journal 9 (with Adam Schwartz).
2003. “Classroom based dialect awareness: A Critical applied linguistic approach”. Heritage Language Journal 1.
