The CU Department of Linguistics is pleased that Dr. Ambrocio Guti茅rrez Lorenzo聽will join our faculty in Fall 2021 as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Guti茅rrez Lorenzo聽earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin in 2021, having聽earned his MA in 2014 at the聽Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropolog铆a Social (CIESAS), Mexico.聽He is a documentary and descriptive linguist whose research focuses on the syntax and semantics of the Zapotec (Otomanguean) languages of southern Mexico. He has also worked on adjacent areas of phonology and morphology and has broad interests across all the linguistic subfields, including especially discourse analysis and historical linguistics.
He promotes聽work on indigenous languages by native聽speakers and members of heritage communities. He himself is a native speaker of Teotitl谩n del Valle Zapotec and he has collaborated with other Zapotec and non-Zapotec colleagues to develop academic and revitalization materials.聽
In Fall 2021 he will teach LING 3320, American Indigenous Languages. Dr. Guti茅rrez Lorenzo's research and teaching activities聽will further enhance and expand research programs ongoing in the Department that target indigenous languages of the Americas and develop聽language-teaching and archival tools聽with an eye toward promoting community sovereignty and decision making.聽