Juan Uriagereka
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Professor, Linguistics
Member, Maryland Language Science Center
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Since joining the university in 1989, Juan Uriagereka has published a dozen books and many articles/chapters. Uriagereka has (co-)directed 19 dissertations, is co-directing three others (within and outside UMD), and has participated in the graduate committees of some seventy students. As Associate Provost for Faculty, he spearheaded family-friendly policies, regularized the status of professional-track faculty, organized leadership forums, and updated APT policies. His current books include the monograph Structure, with Howard Lasnik (MIT Press, 2022), a multidisciplinary project to formulate language structures as linear operators, and a book in progress on code-switching, co-authored with Jeff MacSwan for Cambridge University Press. His outreach activities include writing for the Washington-based Musica Aperta and co-founding Imagining Reality Insights & Solutions, to help with literacy and other educational issues.