Spanish and Portuguese Faculty

Scott M Alvord - Associate Professor

BA, Weber State University, 1998
MA, University of Minnesota, 2003
PhD, University of Minnesota, 2006

Patricia Helena Baialuna de Andrade - Assistant Professor

BA, Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP), 2006
MA, UNESP, 2009
PhD, UNESP, 2015

William Foster Carr - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2004
MA, Brigham Young University, 2009
PhD, University of Arizona, 2014

Michael William Child - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2004
MA, Brigham Young University, 2009
PhD, University of Arizona, 2014

Willis C Fails - Associate Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1975
MA, Brigham Young University, 1977
PhD, University of Texas, Austin, 1984

Mara Lucy Garcia - Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1990
MA, Brigham Young University, 1992
PhD, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 1997

Daryl Robert Hague - Associate Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1987
JD, University of Washington, 1990
MA, Brigham Young University, 1996
PhD, State University of New York, Binghamton, 2002

Anna-Lisa Halling - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2005
MA, Brigham Young University, 2007
PhD, Vanderbilt University, 2012

Valerie Hegstrom - Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1982
MA, Brigham Young University, 1986
MA, University of Kansas, 1988
PhD, University of Kansas, 1992

Dustin Hemsath- Visiting Instructor

Jordan Benjamin Jones - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2014
MA, Brigham Young University, 2015
MS Education, Johns Hopkins University, 2017
MA, Brown University, 2021
PhD, Brown University, 2021

Nieves Perez Knapp - Teaching Professor

BA, University of Oviedo, Spain, 1986
BA, University of Oviedo, Spain, 1990
MA, Brigham Young University, 1995
PhD, University of Oviedo, Spain, 2003

David Phillip Laraway - Associate Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1992
MA, Brigham Young University, 1994
MA, Cornell University, 1997
PhD, Cornell University, 1998

Erik Matthew Larson - Associate Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2006
MA, University of California, Davis, 2008
PhD, University of California, Davis, 2012

Samuel Lopez Alcala - Assistant Professor

BA, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, 2000
MA, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, 2005
PhD, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, 2012

Rob Alan Martinsen - Associate Professor

BA, Arizona State University, 1999
MA, Northern Arizona University, 2003
PhD, University of Texas, Austin, 2007

Cherice Michelle Montgomery - Assistant Professor

BA, Wichita State University, 1992
MEd, Wichita State University, 2002

Rex P Nielson - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2002
MA, Brown University, 2004
AM, Brown University, 2007
PhD, Brown University, 2010

Desiree Oliveira - Assistant Professor

BA, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 2006
BA, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 2021
PhD, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2019

Dale J Pratt - Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1990
PhD, Cornell University, 1994

Brian Lee Price - Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2000
MA, University of Texas, Austin, 2003
PhD, University of Texas, Austin, 2007

Alvin F Sherman - Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1985
MA, Brigham Young University, 1987
PhD, University of Virginia, 1990

Robert N Smead - Associate Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1981
MA, Brigham Young University, 1983
PhD, University of Texas, Austin, 1988

Gregory Charles Stallings - Associate Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1989
MA, Brigham Young University, 1993
PhD, University of California, Irvine, 1999

Gregory L Thompson - Associate Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1999
MA, Brigham Young University, 2001
PhD, University of Arizona, 2006

Lauren Elaine Truman - Assistant Teaching Professor

B.A., Brigham Young University, 2012
M.A., Brigham Young University, 2017
PhD, University of Minnesota, 2021

Jeffrey Scott Turley - Professor

MA, Brigham Young University, 1984
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1992

Douglas J Weatherford - Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1988
PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 1997

Geoffrey Lynn Williams - Professor

BA, University of London, 1973
BA, University of London, 1975
PhD, University of London, 1978

Mac John Wilson - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2005
MA, Brigham Young University, 2008
PhD, Rutgers University, 2014