Please join SLAT in welcoming Dr. Ana Carvalho as the new SLAT Chair! Dr. Carvalho steps into the role beginning July 1, 2025, and all of our faculty, students and staff are excited to begin working with her. Dr. Carvalho is a Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and a faculty member in SLAT, and is affiliated faculty with the Department of Linguistics and the Center for Latin American Studies. She has been involved with SLAT in many roles and ways since 2006, and we're looking forward to her direction in the program.
We also want to express our gratitude to Dr. Suzanne Panferov Reese, who stepped down from the SLAT Chair role after 5 years. The impact and positive changes that Dr. Panferov Reese made on SLAT are too numerous to list; instead, we want to thank her and pay tribute to everything she did throughout her time as Chair, and especially to all the students she advised and helped. We wish her well on her next roles at the University of Arizona!