Mike Carson

Mike Carson is a current graduate student pursuing his Master's Degree in the Spanish department.  He is interested in language learning, speaks Spanish and Portuguese, and is currently studying Chinese and Arabic.  Mike has lived in Cleveland, Columbus, and now in Hamilton, Ohio while studying and also working full-time at the Miami University One Stop.  He will be going on the El Camino study abroad trip in Spain during tahe 2021-22 winter semester.

Michael Ferro

Michael Ferro is a current student in the combined BA/MA program in the Spanish department. He also has a major in International Studies with a concentration in Latin America, and minors in Arabic and Middle East and Islamic Studies. He studied abroad in Cuba during the winter of 2019 and in Jordan during the summer of 2021, and he has also traveled to Belize and Peru. Currently, he works as a student assistant in the ILRC. For his thesis, he is interested in researching the legal environment of Spanish in the US and the implications for Spanish in the country in the event that Puerto Rico becomes a state.

Erin Fetters

Erin está en su tercer año de la universidad y está participando en el programa BA/MA de Español al mismo tiempo que desarrolla su especialización en  Educación de Español. Ella quiere obtener una certificación para enseñar inglés a los estudiantes que hablan otra lengua (TESOL) y utilizar todo el conocimiento que recibe para ser maestra de español y/o inglés, bien aquí en los Estados Unidos o bien en el extranjero, después de graduarse. 

Emma Grube

Emma Grupe es estudiante de posgrado que realiza su maestría en el departamento de español. Sus intereses incluyen la escritura, la lectura (especialmente libros en español), el aprendizaje de otras lenguas y cosas creativas, como la costura y el crochet. Ella ha estudiado en extranjero en España el verano pasado y ahora mismo trabaja como RA en Beechwoods Hall. Ella quiere explorar una tesis en lingüísticas española que se pueda conectar con la antropología lingüística. Después de su graduación, a ella le gustaría enseñar como profesora o continuar sus estudios en España u otro país hispanohablante. 

 

Victoria Lopez-Rangel

Victoria is a current graduate student pursuing her Masters's Degree in the Spanish department.  Her interests are learning new languages, poetry, music, editing, filming, and traveling. She is from Cincinnati, Ohio, and also has a major in Speech Pathology & Audiology with minors in French, Lusophone Studies, and Latin American Studies. She has traveled to 6 countries, including Panama and the Dominican Republic, where her parents are from. This past summer Victoria studied abroad in Spain loved it! She currently works as Commuter Center Assistant (CCA) in Armstrong helping commuters navigate campus and parking. She is currently thinking of a thesis to write for her senior years. Her goal after graduation is to become a bilingual speech pathologist (as well as travel to as many countries as possible!)

 

Katherine Mitchell

Katherine Mitchell is a current student pursuing her Master's Degree through the BA/MA program in the Spanish department. She is also finishing her BA in International Studies. She is from Peachtree City, Georgia, and has worked in Washington, DC, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

Avery Puskas

Avery Puskas is a graduate student in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Miami University where she also studies French language and literature. Her research interests include Spanish phonology, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and Spanish as a heritage language. During the Summer of 2020, Avery received the Undergraduate Summer Scholars Award under which she researched and wrote “The Effects of Sociolinguistic Discrimination Against Regional Language and the Evolution of Pedagogical Policy in France.” She is currently researching the tendency for Spanish heritage speakers to diphthongize /e/ and /o/ with Dr. Russel Simonsen. 

Rae Webb

Rae is a current graduate student pursuing her Masters's Degree in the Spanish department.  Her interests are linguistics and film. She has lived in Finland and the US and has traveled to Russia, Eastern Europe, Germany, and Spain. She currently studies both Spanish and second language acquisition teaching. She intends to study the impacts of machismo on Mexican cinema for her thesis and hopes to teach at an urban bilingual school after graduating. 

Jason Williamson

Jason Williamson is a current graduate student pursuing his Masters's Degree in the Spanish department.  His interests are Peruvian culture and politics as well as topics in Second Language Acquisition.  He has lived and worked in Peru as an English teacher and spends every summer there with family traveling to new places.  He currently works as an ESL teacher at Colerain Middle School in Cincinnati and has 10+ years teaching middle school and high school mathematics and Spanish in various school districts around Cincinnati.