Awards and Grants
Grants:
2023-2024 Wallace Chafe and Marianne Mithun Fund for Research on Understudied Languages for "Fielwork on Meseta P'urhépecha"
2023-2024 Funded Public Humanities Graduate Fellow-Designed Community Project "Kusíkí ra kutu'va Sà'án Sàvǐ", from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara
2023-2024 Fund for Santa Barbara Grant, as part of the writing team for the project "Justicia Social de Intérpretes de Lenguas Originarias"
2023-2024 Language Legacies Grant of the Endangered Languages Foundation, as part of the research team for the project "Documentación lingüística de las kashumbikuecha ka p’indekuecha: valores y costumbres comunales en el P’urhépecha de la Meseta (Comachuén)"
2023-2024 Graduate Humanities Research Fellowship from the Graduate Division of the University of California, Santa Barbara
2023 - Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant from the Graduate Division of the University of California, Santa Barbara for the project "Mobilizing fieldwork data among community members and documenting specialized cultural knowledge and language use"
2022-2023 Language Legacies Grant from the Endangered Languages Fund and the International Phonetics Association for the project "Documenting Sa'an Savi ña Ñuu Xnuviko'.
2022 - Grant from the programme NAWA-PROM PROJECT “International Scholarship Exchange of PhD Candidates and Academic Staff to attend the International PhD students conference: Borderlands, Minorities, Migrations organized by the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, in Warsaw.
2022 - Foundation for Endangered Languages Grant for the project "Ka'vi Sà'án Sàvǐ ñà Yukúnanǐ: Developing a collection of trilingual stories for kids"
2021-2022 Jacobs Research Funds (Department of Linguistics, University of Washington) for the project Documentation of Yucunani Sàꞌán Sàvǐ.
2021-2022 Fund for Santa Barbara Grant, cas part of the writing team for the project "Language Justice Team Support of Latinx and Indigenous Migrant COVID19 Response Rask Force".
2021 Department of Linguistics Fellowship for Winter, University of California, Santa Barbara.
2019 - 2024 Teaching Fellowship at the Department of Linguistics of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
2019 Funding from the Frisian Chair at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen for the project: Ervaringen met twatalige konversaasjes [Experiences with bilingual conversations]: a series of workshops in Ljouwert (Fryslân) to use receptive multilingualism to boost the use of the minority languages in the province
2010 - 2011 Funding from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture for my Translation and Interpreting Studies
2009 - 2010 Ministry of Education and Culture (Spain) Scholarship to fund first year of university studies for first class honor students of Baccalaureate
2009 - 2010 Caixa Manresa scholarship for first year of university studies for outstanding new undergraduate students
2008 - 2009 Botet i Sisó grant from Universitat de Girona for promising Baccalaureate research projects, with the project Estudi comparatiu de les llengües de la península ibèrica [Comparative study of the languages of the Iberian Peninsula]
Awards:
2022-2023 Dorothy Chun and Joseph Polchinski Fellowship, interdisciplinary emphasis in Applied Linguistics & Gevirtz School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara
2018 - 2020 Nominated to the Skripsjeprijs awards, awarded by the Fryske Akademy for MA theses in the are of Frisian Studies, for the thesis: New Speakers of a Minoritized Language: Motivation, Attitudes and Language Use of 'Nije Sprekkers' of West Frisian.
December, 2018 - Nominated to the Jan Bouwer Theses Prizes awarded by the Dutch Royal Society of Science (Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen) in the category of Language and Literature for the MA Thesis: New Speakers of a Minoritized Language: Motivation, Attitudes and Language Use of 'Nije Sprekkers' of West Frisian. Nominated by Prof. Goffe Jensma, Department of Minorities and Multilingualism | Frysk, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
June, 2018 - Winner of the LC Awards: Master's category, awarded by the Leeuwarder Courant, for the project: Debunking myths? Intelligibility of Frisian for Dutch native speakers (with Sara Pinho).
June, 2009 - Ex aequo winner of the 14th Pere Ramon i Roca Awards for Research Projects, awarded by Martí l'Humà Foundation and Contrapunt Association (UNESCO) for the project: Estudi comparatiu de les llengües de la península ibèrica [Comparative study of the languages of the Iberian Peninsula].
June, 2009 - Honorific mention in the 6th Argó Awards to Research Projects in the category of Social and Human Science Research, awarded by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, for the project: Estudi comparatiu de les llengües de la península ibèrica [Comparative study of the languages of the Iberian Peninsula].