Principal investigator
Iva Ivanova
Associate Professor
imivanova@utep.edu
I am a Psycholinguist. I do research on the mental mechanisms of language use.
I went to graduate school at the Universities of Barcelona and Edinburgh, and received a Ph. D. from the University of Barcelona in 2010. I was then a postdoc at UCSD from 2011 to 2016.
I am originally from Sofia, Bulgaria, and fondly return to visit family and friends. I speak Bulgarian, English, Spanish and Catalan (and, with considerable effort and a lot of interlocutor patience, German, Russian and Italian) .
I am captivated by detail and process. I find Home Depot fascinating. I do film photography (in my own darkroom), love (contemporary) art, architecture and design, love to read, play tennis, play the piano, dance Argentine tango, and (newly) figure-skate and play disc-golf.
Graduate students
Rachel Williams
rlwilliams4@miners.utep.edu
Anahy Barragán
abarragand@miners.utep.edu
Diana Uribe
Primary Mentor: Ana Schwartz
duribe@miners.utep.edu
Christian Ruiz
Primary Mentor: Ashley Bangert
cruiz8@miners.utep.edu
Undergraduate research assistants
Alexia Hernandez
Anavictoria Dominguez
Angela Almeida
Diana Salcido-Padilla
Ivanna Delgado
Jordan Giron
Josue Lopez Tapia
Kyle Wolff
Lab alumni
Affiliated Grads
Karly Schleicher (now Research Psychologist at ARI)
Jennifer Blush (now Assistant Professor at William Peace University)
Jonathan Covarrubias (now research assistant at Ohio State)
Lluvia Mendiola (Speech-Language Pathology MA)
Undergrads
Adrian Avendano Nevarez, Alan Barrera, Alejandra Fanith, Alejandra Salcido, Alina Anchondo, Alyssa Cardona, America Ponce, Ana Paula Anaya, Ana Paulina Caballero, Andrea Seañez, Audrey Camacho, Aziz Atiya, Brianna Gonzalez, Bridgette Leyva, Carolina Hernandez, Dafne Leyva, Daniel Machado, Diana Ruiz Grajeda, Elisa Espinosa, Elizabeth Soto, Eric Martell, Graciela Favela, Geraldine Garcia, Greg Cardona, Jonathan Ramirez, Jose Silva, Karen Tarango, Luisa Garcia, Mackenzie Cochran, Margo Berumen, Oscar Najera, Patricia Arizpe, Renato Diaz, Sebastian Delgado, Stephanie Ojeda, Susan Enriquez, Vanessa Wade, Victoria Jeffress, Valerie Edwards, Zacnite Garcia
Diana Ruiz Grajeda is now a graduate student at Seattle University studying Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Oscar Najera is now a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin studying Developmental Psychology
Eric Martell is now a graduate student at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor studying Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Jose Silva is now a graduate student in the College of Education at the University of Texas at El Paso studying Mental Health Counseling
Alan Barrera is now a graduate student in the College of Education at the University of Texas at El Paso studying Curriculum and Instruction
Ana Paula Anaya is now a graduate student at the University of Texas at El Paso studying Speech Language Pathology
If you are interested in being a graduate student at LCL, note that you can be co-advised by Consortium members whose research interests fit with LCL research
Ana Schwartz (Psychology) - bilingual word recognition and discourse processing, cognitive sports psychology
Carla Contemori (Linguistics) - bilingualism, language acquisition, pronoun comprehension and production, syntactic processing
Natalia Mazzaro (Linguistics) - Spanish phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics, bilingualism and language contact
Sabrina Mossman (Linguistics) - second language acquisition
Josefina Tinajero (Education) - second language acquisition, bilingual literacy, dual language programs, teacher preparation
Collaborators
Aurelie Pistono (University of Toulouse)
Elli Tourtouri (Universität Osnabrück)
Franzisca Schulz (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
Lotte Eijk (University of York)
Renata Engels (Ghent University)
Ruth Corps (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)