Contact Us

Department of Linguistics

Phone: 505-277-6353 (voice)
linguist@unm.edu

Signed Language Interpreting Program

505-277-0928 (voice/TTY)
sign@unm.edu

Navajo (Diné) Language Program

Woodward Hall 140
navajo@unm.edu

Linguistics Undergraduate Advisor: Dawn Nordquist nordquis@unm.edu

Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics: Naomi Shin naomishin@unm.edu

Signed Language Interpreting Program Director: Dawn Myers dcmd@unm.edu>

Navajo Language Program Director: Melvatha Chee mchee@unm.edu

Department of Linguistics Chair: Jill Morford morford@unm.edu

Humanities Relocation Information

The Linguistics department is currently housed in temporary office spaces during the demolition of the Humanities building and construction of a new building (estimated completion 2030). Our temporary offices are spread out in multiple buildings around campus: Ortega Hall, Woodward Hall, Oñate Hall, and the University Advisement & Enrichment Center. Below is a directory of our temporary office spaces. If you have any questions about locating us, please email linguist@unm.edu. Please note our mailing address has not changed. Faculty and Graduate Student maiboxes are located in Ortega 235.

For an interactive campus map, click here

For a PDF of Directions to the Signed Lanaguage Interpreting Program, click here

For a PDF of Directions to Woodward 140 & 140D (The Navajo Language Program and Indigenous Child Language Research Center), click here

To Download a PDF of Linguistics Department office locations, click here

Linguistics Department Temporary Office Locations Ortega Hall (bldg. 79) Woodward Hall (bldg 82) (Navajo Language Program) University Advisement & Enrichment Center (UAEC) (bldg. 85) (Signed Langauage Interpreting Program) Oñate Hall (bldg. 156)
Labs
Lobo Language Lab			Ortega 106
Language Documentation Lab			Ortega 121
Indigenous Child Language Research Lab		iclrc@unm.edu	Woodward 140
Phonology Lab			UAEC B65
Faculty
Birchall, Joshua	Assistant Professor	jbirchall@unm.edu	UAEC B58
Chee, Melvatha	Assistant Professor, Navajo Language Program Director	mchee@unm.edu	Woodward 132
Flego, Stefon	Assistant Professor	stefonflego@unm.edu	UAEC B51
Jacobson, Holly	Associate Professor	jacobson@unm.edu	Oñate 130, 131, 132
Koops, Christian	Associate Professor	ckoops@unm.edu	UAEC B59
Manavi, Lorraine	Principle Lecturer II	lmanavi@unm.edu	Woodward 140A
Morford, Jill	Professor, Chair	morford@unm.edu	Ortega 427
Myers, Dawn C.	Principle Lecturer II, Signed Language Interpreting Program Director	dcmd@unm.edu	UAEC B32
Nordquist, Dawn	Senior Lecturer III, Undergraduate Director	nordquis@unm.edu	Ortega 421
Roybal, Sara	Lecturer I	roybals@unm.edu	UAEC B54
Shaffer, Barbara	Professor	bshaffer@unm.edu	UAEC B48
Shin, Naomi	Professor, Director of Graduate Studies	naomishin@unm.edu	Ortega 409
Sower, Monica	Visiting Lecturer I	monicap@unm.edu	UAEC B56
Twitchell, Paul	Lecturer III	ptwitch@unm.edu	UAEC B49
Vallejos-Yopan, Rosa	Professor	rvallejos@unm.edu	UAEC B60
Wilkinson, Erin	Professor, Associate Chair	ewilkins@unm.edu	UAEC B34
Staff
Chrisco, Lacey	Academic Coordinator	lchrisco@unm.edu	Ortega 423
Garcia, Marcella	Administrative Assistant, Sign Language Interpreting Program	mgarcia65@unm.edu	UAEC B33
Slocum, Jessica	Department Administrator	jslocum@unm.edu	Ortega 441
Wingerd, Liana	Staff Interpreter	lwingerd@unm.edu	UAEC B53
Yazzie, Tamera	Program Specialist	tamerat987@unm.edu	Woodward 140B