Project Grant PW29058523

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $349,931 Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access grant (CFDA 45.149) to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) to support the "Bilingual Voices in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Phase 2" project. This 3-year project aims to preserve 240 bilingual sociolinguistic interviews, expand the collection by 50 new interviews, and enhance the project website with data visualizations and metadata to provide greater access to this unique corpus documenting Spanish-English bilingual linguistic practices in the U.S.-Mexico border region. The project will have far-reaching impacts on scholarship, Hispanic students, and local communities by preserving and expanding this valuable linguistic data.