Over the years, I have been fortunate to participate in the mentoring of graduate and undergraduate students. The following is a list of PhD graduates that I have mentored:
At UIC, as a dissertation director:
Rodrigo Delgado. Dissertation director. PhD 2020.
Thesis title: “Gender and phonology in the Determiner Phrase.”
Current employment: Assistant Professor, UIUC
Irati de Nicolás. Dissertation director. PhD 2020.
Thesis title: “Word Order within the Determiner Phrase.”
Current employment: Basque Language Lecturer, University of Chicago
José Sequeros. Dissertation director. PhD 2020.
Thesis title: “Discourse-free Left Periphery.”
Current employment: Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska.
Ariane Sande. Dissertation director. PhD 2018
Thesis title: “C plus T as a necessary condition for pro-drop: Evidence from code-switching.”
Current employment: Lecturer, University of Munich, Germany.
Daniel Vergara. Dissertation director. PhD 2017
Thesis title: “Licensing of NPIs: evidence from Code-switching.”
Current employment: Assistant Professor, Auburn University.
Jeanne Heil. Dissertation director. PhD 2015
Thesis title: “Infinitivals at the end state.”
Current employment: Associate Professor, University of Southern Maine.
Brad Hoot. Dissertation director. PhD 2012.
Thesis title: “Presentational Focus in Heritage and Monolingual Spanish.”
Current employment: Associate Professor, DePaul University.
At UIC, as a dissertation committee member:
Timothy Anderson. Dissertation committee member. PhD 2022
Thesis title: “The relevance of type in semantic analyses of incremental theme predicates in English and Spanish.”
Current employment: Associate Professor, Kishawkee College.
Sara Stefanich. Dissertation committee member. PhD 2019.
Thesis title: “Phonological spell out of intra-word code-switches by English/Spanish bilinguals.”
Current employment: Lecturer, Northwestern University
Alicia Luque. Dissertation committee member. PhD 2019.
Thesis title: “A Neurocognitive Investigation of Inhibitory Control and First Language Flexibility as Individual Differences in Adult Second Language Learning.”
Current employment: Assistant Professor, Arctic University of Norway, Tromso.
Bryan Koronkiewicz. Dissertation committee member. PhD 2014
Thesis title: “Pronoun categorization. Evidence from Spanish-English code-switching.”
Current employment: Associate Professor, University of Alabama Tuscaloosa.
Shane Ebert. Dissertation committee member. PhD 2014
Thesis title: “Wh-movement in code-switching.”
Current employment: Lecturer, UIC.
Mandy Faretta. Dissertation committee member. PhD 2014
Thesis title: “Individual differences in context. A neurolinguistic investigation of working memory and L2 development.”
Current employment: Associate Professor, Northern Illinois University.
Laura Bartlett. Dissertation committee member. PhD 2013.
Thesis title: “Adjectives that aren’t: An ERP-theoretical analysis of adjectives in Spanish.
Jill Jegerski. Dissertation committee member. PhD 2010.
Thesis title: “Ultimate Attainment: experimental research.”
Current employment: Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Clara Burgo. Dissertation committee member. PhD 2008.
Thesis title: “Tense and aspect grammaticalization in Bilbao Spanish”
Current employment: Associate Professor, Loyola University, Chicago.
Julia Oliver. Dissertation committee member. PhD 2007.
Thesis title: “The urbanization of High Vowels: A Sociolinguistic Study in the Highlands of Puerto Rico.”
Current employment: Assistant Professor, Kentucky State University.
Claudia Fernández. Dissertation committee member. PhD 2005.
Thesis title: “The role of explicit information in instructed SLA: Evidence from a Pi Study.”
Current employment: Clinical Assistant Professor, UIC.
Dinorah Scott. Dissertation committee member. PhD 2003.
Thesis title: “Mood Variation in Spanish: A Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Explanation.”
Current employment: Assistant Professor, Whitworth University, Washington.
Outside UIC:
Peter Herbeck. External gutachter. PhD 2015.
Thesis title: “The subject position in Romance finite and non-finite clauses.”
Thesis director: Hermann Pöhl, University of Salzburg.
Tanya Leal. External committee member. PhD 2014.
Thesis title: “Pragmatic consequences of P-movement and Focus Fronting in L2 Spanish.”
Co-Directors: Roumyana Slavakova and Paula Kempchinski, University of Iowa.
Laia Arnaus Gil. External gutachter. PhD 2012
Thesis title: “La selección copulativa y auxiliar: Las lenguas romances (español - italiano - catalán - francés) y el alemán en contacto. Su adquisición en niños bilingües y trilingües.”
Thesis director: Natascha Müller. University of Wuppertal.
Inmaculada Taboada. Presidente del tribunal (Chair of the Board). PhD 2010
“The internal structure of non-quantified DP.”
Thesis director: Alazne Landa. University of the Basque Country.