Linguistics programs for Mexican and Panamanian nationals

Fri Apr 25 15:55:26 UTC 2014

No problem! And just to follow up on the the scholarship question, for the
UNAM graduate programs, if students meet the minimum requirements and at
the time of beginning studies do not have a full time job, they are
eligible for scholarships that last for the duration of the time they are
taking the required classes. I believe that the Colegio de México and
CIESAS also give scholarships to their graduate students.

Additionally, it would be worth looking into the Linguistics program at the
University of Texas at Austin.

Mexican students can also get scholarships from CONACyT (like the Mexican
NSF) to study at graduate programs in other parts of the world, including
the U.S. and Canada. I believe that the Ford fellowships that once existed
for indigenous students in Mexico are no longer available.

Best,
Carolyn

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Anna Luisa Daigneault <
annaluisa at livingtongues.org> wrote:

> Thanks so much for the clarifications, Carolyn, much appreciated! :)
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> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Carolyn O'Meara <ckomeara at buffalo.edu>wrote:
>
>>  Dear Bryan, Anna Luisa and everyone else on the list,
>>
>> I just wanted to add a few comments as I am a professor at the UNAM. We
>> don't have a Linguistics Department per se, we have a Linguistics graduate
>> program, which Anna Luisa linked to. There is no undergraduate degree in
>> Linguistics here. The MA program is either for Hispanic Linguistics or
>> Applied Linguistics (the latter involves many researchers at the CELE, the
>> center for foreign language teaching), while the PhD is more open to topics
>> related to indigenous language studies. The Anthropology graduate program
>> is less focused on linguistics than the Linguistics one. There is also a
>> Mesoamerican Studies graduate program that involves language classes
>> (Classical Nahuatl and Yucatec Maya) as well as some basic linguistics and
>> philology classes.
>>
>> In addition to these programs, there is also the master's and PhD program
>> at CIESAS in Mexico City/San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas (
>> http://www.ciesas.edu.mx/) -- this is where Mario Chavez works. This
>> department is geared towards training native speaker linguists.
>>
>> There is also the PhD program in Linguistics at the Colegio de México in
>> Mexico City (http://cell.colmex.mx/). There are also various linguistics
>> programs in other universities in Mexico, such as the linguistics
>> department at the Universidad de Sonora in Hermosillo (
>> http://www.letrasylinguistica.uson.mx/). There are other programs, but
>> they are a bit smaller in terms of the number of faculty.
>>
>> Finally, the ENAH (the National School of Anthropology and History) has
>> linguistics programs at various levels (BA, MA and PhD) (
>> http://www.enah.edu.mx/) and the campus is very close to the UNAM in
>> Mexico City.
>>
>> If you or your friends or colleagues have any other specific questions
>> regarding linguistics programs in Mexico, please do not hesitate to email
>> me off-list with more specific questions. I would be more than happy to
>> help and could even put your friends or colleagues in touch with some of my
>> friends and students, some of whom are studying their own languages. They
>> could provide specific information regarding their experiences.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Carolyn
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Bryan James Gordon <
>> linguist at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> A few of my colleagues from Mexico and Panama have asked me about
>>> opportunities for continuing their linguistic education, with the goal of
>>> acquiring skills they can use for language reclamation and maintenance in
>>> their home communities. I know very little about the programs in Mexico
>>> (some I know are quite prestigious, but I don't know which ones are
>>> appropriate for an applied focus), and from what I understand there is no
>>> linguistics major at all in Panama. I've encouraged my colleagues to look
>>> into opportunities in Bolivia and Colombia for the indigenous universities,
>>> and Spain because they have a lot of scholarships for Latin Americans. But
>>> I don't really know where in particular to steer them even in those places,
>>> or if there are any good North American programs with scholarships
>>> available for Latin Americans. I'd be interested in any of y'all's
>>> suggestions!
>>>
>>> --
>>> ***********************************************************
>>> Bryan James Gordon, MA
>>> Joint PhD Program in Linguistics and Anthropology
>>> University of Arizona
>>> ***********************************************************
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dra. Carolyn O'Meara
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>> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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>>
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-- 
Dra. Carolyn O'Meara
Seminario de Lenguas Indígenas
Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Circuito Mario de la Cueva
Ciudad Universitaria, 04510, México, D.F.
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