Spanish Heritage Language Program

Alejandro Acero Ayuda

Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Phone: 541-346-4021
Office: 192K Esslinger
Office Hours: Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 9:00-10:00am / Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:00-1:00pm or by appointment
Research Interests: Sociolinguistics, Heritage Speakers, Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Technology and Education, Endangered Languages and Language Revitalization (Ladino)

Rafael Arias

Senior Instructor II of Spanish
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Phone: 541-346-4106
Office: 16 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: T&R 11:00-12:00

Ray Balstad

Graduate Program Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Phone: 541-346-2703
Office: 114D Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWRF 8:30am - 4:30pm
Research Interests: French, Film, Comics, Foreign Language Acquisition, Botany

Fatima Benhabyb

Undergraduate Program Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Phone: 541-346-2047
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWRF 8:30am-4:30pm [Remote Fridays]

Grecia Chirinos Delgado

Career Instructor of Spanish
Global Studies, Latin American Studies, Latinx, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Phone: Teams call
Office: 201 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MW 3:00-4:00pm and by appoinment
Research Interests: U.S. Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Education, Critical Language Awareness, Sociolinguistics, Critical Pedagodies

Amy Costales

Senior Instructor II of Spanish
College of Arts and Sciences, Latinx, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Phone: Contact via e-mail or Teams
Office: 226 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00-3:00 or via Teams(send message for Teams)
Research Interests: U.S Spanish, Linguistics, Border expression, Latino experience in U.S., K-12 education, children's literature, LatCrit, CRT

Liliana Darwin Lopez

Senior Instructor II of Spanish and Spanish Heritage Language
Profesora de español como segunda lengua y lengua de herencia
Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Phone: 541-346-4104
Office: 20 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: OTOÑO 2024 lunes y miércoles (MW) 12-1 p.m.
Research Interests: Latines in the U.S., Latine Literature, Estudios culturales

Robert Davis

Professor of Spanish
Interim Head, Dept. of Romance Languages
College of Arts and Sciences, Language Teaching Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, French, Italian, Portuguese
Phone: 541-346-0956
Office: 209 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Book a visit here: https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/bookingsrldavisofficehours@uoregon.edu/bookings/
Research Interests: second language teaching and learning, technology in second language learning, Romance linguistics

Olivia Denton

Faculty Support Coordinator
ASU 1 - School of Global Studies and Languages
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Phone: 541-346-1385
Office: 107 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWTF 9:00-5:00

Kelley Howarth

Career Faculty in Spanish
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Office: 223 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday 2:00-3:50pm & by appt.
Research Interests: Critical pedagogies, Spanish language contact and variation, heritage language pedagogy

Jonathan Knight

Operations Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Native American Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Phone: 541-346-0951
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: 8-4:30 M-F

Sergio Loza

Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics
Director of the Spanish Heritage Language Program
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Office: 430 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Wednesday 4-5pm via Zoom only (email me for link)
Research Interests: Spanish heritage language education, Spanish heritage language pedagogy, linguistics, sociolinguistics, U.S. Spanish, critical language awareness

Gloria Macedo Janto

Graduate Employee, Romance Languages, PhD (Spanish and Quechua)
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Office Hours: Thursday 3 - 4 p.m. or by appointment
Research Interests: Memory and Testimony, Politics and Fiction, Genealogies in Afro and Andean Literatures, Gender Studies, Spanish and Quechua

Jordan Morris

Office Generalist, ASU 1
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, General Social Sciences, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Phone: 541-346-2579
Office: FR 107
Office Hours: 8:00a - 4:30p

Heather Quarles

Senior Instructor II of Spanish
Latinx, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Phone: No UO phone
Office: 223 Friendly
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 12-1pm
Research Interests: Translanguaging, Critical Language Awareness, Sociolinguistics, US Spanish, Critical Pedagogies

Lisa Ross

Associate Director
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Phone: 541-346-4005
Office: 107 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M-F 8-5

Marci Viano-Davis

Operations Manager
ASU 1 - School of Global Studies and Languages
College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Phone: 541-346-4019
Office: 116 Friendly
Office Hours: 9-3 M-F

Alex Zunterstein

Senior Instructor II of Spanish & Assistant Head, Romance Languages
Spanish Heritage Language Program Coordinator
Latinx, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Phone: Contact on Microsoft Teams
Office: 213 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tues 9-11 *only for students enrolled in my SPAN 312 & SPAN 320 classes. Please contact herencia@uoregon.edu for SHL advising hours.