Stephen Fafulas

Dr. Fafulas is director of the SoCIOLing (Study of Communities, Involvement & Outreach and Linguistics) Lab through which he mentors students and conducts research with multilingual and multicultural communities in the Americas and Europe. Dr. Fafulas’s projects have been funded by organizations such as the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His publications have been featured in journals such as Linguistics Vanguard and Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics. He is editor of “Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution,” published with John Benjamins in 2020, which presents an overview of emerging Spanish-speaking populations in the Amazon. Dr. Fafulas is co-founder of the SEC Spanish Consortium, which promotes cross-disciplinary scholarship and cross-institutional collaborations aimed at documenting the sociolinguistic situation of Latinx communities in the U.S. South. Recently, Dr. Fafulas was selected as a University of Mississippi Faculty Laureate for his proposal to work with bilingual and minority language-speaking Mississippians as well as students.