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.

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Download Directions to the Signed Language Interpreting Program

Download Directions to Woodward 140 & 140D (The Navajo Language Program and Indigenous Child Language Research Center)

Download Linguistics Department office locations

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 B51
Faculty
Begay, Jalon	Lecturer II	belo78@unm.edu	Woodward 140A
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 B65
Jacobson, Holly	Associate Professor	jacobson@unm.edu	Oñate 130, 131, 132
Koops, Christian	Associate Professor	ckoops@unm.edu	Ortega 409
Morford, Jill	Professor, Chair	morford@unm.edu	UAEC B60
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	UAEC B59
Sower, Monica	Visiting Lecturer I	monicap@unm.edu	UAEC B49
Vallejos-Yopan, Rosa	Professor	rvallejos@unm.edu	Ortega 307
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