Graduate Student
Email: facostamunoz@ufl.edu
Education
- Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Florida, In Progress
- M.A. Cultural Anthropology, North Carolina State University, 2019
- B.A. Anthropology and Linguistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017
Subfield
Chair
Research Interests
Language revitalization, indigenous languages of Latin America, language ideology, language endangerment, bilingualism/ multi-lingualism, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, ethnomusicology
Selected Publications
Ko’ox T’aano’on ich Máaya: Yucatec Maya Language Revitalization Efforts among Professional Educators in the State of Yucatán, México. (MA thesis)
“Shunguhuan Yuyai: The Battle for Kichwa Language and Culture Revitalization in Ecuador as Thinking-Feeling and Performance” (undergraduate thesis)
Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
- 2019 Student Council at Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA, a subset of the American Anthropological Association)
- 2019 Board of Education Summer Fellowship Summer Program (BOE) Recipient at University of Florida for $3500
- 2018 Susan Carter Global Endowment (HSS) at North Carolina State University $1500 for Master’s thesis fieldwork research in Yucatan, Mexico.
- 2018 FLAS Fellowship for Yucatec Maya language program level 2 in summer of 2018 from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University for $6500.
- 2017 FLAS Fellowship for Yucatec Maya language program level 1 in summer of 2017 from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University for $6500.
- 2017 Federico Gil Award for best undergraduate honor thesis on a Latin American peoples subject from the Institute of the Study of the Americas at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $250.
- 2016 Julia Crane Award for Honor Thesis funding in summer of 2016 from the Institute of the Study of the Americas at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $1500
- 2016 Anthropology department honor thesis grant from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $500.