Glenn Martinez, Ph.D.

Dean, College of Liberal and Fine Arts, Stumberg Endowed Chair, Professor, Bicultural-Bilingual Studies

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Bio

Glenn Martinez is Dean of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts and Professor of Spanish, Bicultural-Bilingual Studies and Public Health at UTSA. In addition to leading COLFA, Dr. Martinez regularly teaches courses in Spanish and Medical Humanities and collaborates on research projects within COLFA and in the wider San Antonio and South Texas communities.

Research Interests

Spanish in Healthcare
Spanish in the United States
Spanish as a Heritage Language
Language Policy and Planning

Degrees

MPH, Border Health, Texas A&M University, 2011
Ph.D., Hispanic Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2000
M.A., Spanish Linguistics, University of Houston, 1996
B.A., Spanish, University of Texas Pan American, 1994

Honors and Awards

Stumberg Distinguished University Chair
- Year Awarded: 2021
- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Alumni Distinguished Award for Outstanding Teaching
- Year Awarded: 2019
- Organization: Office of Academic Affairs. The Ohio State University
Latino of the Year
- Year Awarded: 2015
- Organization: The Hispanic Latino Network, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University
Finalist for outstanding program to increase opportunities and achievement among Latino students at the Baccalaureate level
- Year Awarded: 2011
- Organization: Examples of Excelencia, Excelencia in Education, Washington, DC.
Provost’s Award for International Studies
- Year Awarded: 2006
- Organization: The University of Texas Pan American.
Distinguished Achievement in Humanities Educational Outreach Award
- Year Awarded: 2004
- Organization: College of Humanities, University of Arizona
Kenyon Dissertation Fellowship
- Year Awarded: 1999-2000
- Organziation: Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio.

Presentations

Bridging and Bonding: Latinx social capital in the classroom and beyond
- Venue: Spanish Heritage Language Direction Network and LatCrit Sociocultural Linguistic Lab at UCR. Virtual Symposium
- Presentation Date: 2022
Pandemia, public health, and applied linguistics: Reflections on language and Latino health in and beyond los tiempos del COVID
- Venue: Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Pittsburgh PA.
- Presentation Date: 2022
Language concordance, heritage language health professionals and Latino health
- Venue: 7th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM.
- Presentation Date: 2020
“Innovative pedagogy and Spanish for the professions.”
- Venue: Language and Latino Health. Keynote presentation. 23rd Annual Spring Spanish and Latin American Colloquium. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
- Presentation Date: 2019
Lenguaje, latinidad y salud latina
- Venue: Invited panel on Español en los Estados Unidos. VIII Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española, Córdoba, Argentina
- Presentation Date: 2019

Grants, Patents and Clinical Trials

Global Competency in Health Humanities: Internationalizing UTSAs Medical Humanities Program. Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program
- Role: Project Director
- Awarded by: US Department of Education
- Year Awarded: 2022
- Total Dollars: $191,000
Documenting of Latina/os/x in Ohio stories during COVID-19 through performed storytelling
- Role: Co-PI
- Awarded by: COVID-19 Special Grants Competition. The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme
- Year Awarded: 2020
- Total Dollars: $18,000
Formal evaluation of the IMPACT partnership
- Role: PI
- Awarded by: Office of Outreach and Engagement
- Year Awarded: 2020
- Total Dollars: $10,000
Social vulnerability, sociolinguistic environment and COVID-19 information for Spanish speakers
- Role: PI
- Awarded by: COVID-19 Seed Funding Program. Office of Research
- Year Awarded: 2020
- Total Dollars: $30,000
“Engaging Language Professionals for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research with Latinos.”
- Role: PI
- Awarded by: Eugene Washington Engagement COVID-19 Enhancement Award. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. EA-8488-TOSU
- Year Awarded: 2020
- Total Dollars: $130,000
“Engaging Language Professionals for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research with Latinos.”
- Role: PI
- Awarded by: Eugene Washington Engagement COVID-19 Enhancement Award. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. EA-8488-TOSU
- Year Awarded: 2018
- Total Dollars: $246,928
“A secondary analysis to identify HPV vaccination disparities across Hispanic subgroups in the United States.”
- Role: Co-PI
- Awarded by: NIH/NIMHD R21MD012800
- Year Awarded: 2018
- Total Dollars: $250,000
“The Ohio Heritage Language Summit.”
- Role: PI
- Awarded by: Ohio Humanities
- Year Awarded: 2018
- Total Dollars: $15,000
“Building infrastructure for patient-centered comparative effectiveness research on language access for patients with Diabetes.” Pipeline to Proposal Tier 2 Award.
- Role: Project Lead
- Awarded by: Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute
- Year Awarded: 2017
- Total Dollars: $25,000
“Building infrastructure for patient-centered comparative effectiveness research on language access for patients with Diabetes” Pipeline to Proposal Tier 1 Award
- Role: Project Lead
- Awarded by: Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute
- Year Awarded: 2016
- Total Dollars: $15,000
Heritage Language Health Professions Corps”
- Role: Project Director
- Awarded by: Impact Grant Program. Office of Outreach and Engagement, The Ohio State University
- Year Awarded: 2016
- Total Dollars: $45,000
Addressing Emerging Needs in the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese: The Ohio State University Spanish and Portuguese GAANN Project”
- Role: Project Director
- Awarded by: Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Program. U.S. Department of Education
- Year Awarded: 2015
- Total Dollars: $600,000
“The Midwest Heritage Language Network"
- Role: Senior Principal Investigator
- Awarded by: Humanities Without Walls consortium
- Year Awarded: 2014
- Total Dollars: $20,000
Integrated Second Language Learning for Chronic Care: A model to improve primary care for Hispanics with diabetes
- Role: Multiple Principal Investigator
- Awarded by: NIH/NIDDK R01DK104648
- Year Awarded: 2014
- Total Dollars: $352,810
The Midwest Heritage Language Network. Humanities Without Walls
- Role: Co-PI
- Awarded by: The Global Midwest Seed Grant
- Year Awarded: 2014
- Total Dollars: $5,000
Pathways to the Professoriate: A Model of Collaborative Doctoral Education. Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education – Special Focus Competition
- Role: Co-PI
- Awarded by: United States Department of Education
- Year Awarded: 2009
- Total Dollars: $292,974
Festival of International Books and Arts 2010: Remembering the Revolution: A Study of the Impact of the Mexican Revolution
- Role: Co-PI
- Awarded by: Humanities Initiatives for Faculty at Hispanic Serving Institutions. National Endowment for the Humanities
- Year Awarded: 2009
- Total Dollars: $100,000
Pan American Workshop on Applied Linguistics
- Awarded by: Secretaría de Educación del Estado de Nuevo León
- Year Awarded: 2008
- Total Dollars: $25,600
Health Communication Research Centre Summer School
- Awarded by: Cardiff University. Faculty Development Council. University of Texas Pan American
- Year Awarded: 2008
- Total Dollars: $3,000
New Connections Research and Coaching Clinic
- Awarded by: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Year Awarded: 2007
- Total Dollars: $1,000
Medical Spanish for Heritage Learners: Advanced Language Skills for Quality Health Care
- Role: PI
- Awarded by: Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education – Comprehensive Program. United States Department of Education
- Year Awarded: 2007
- Total Dollars: $442,000
University of Texas Pan American Integrated Global Knowledge and Understanding Center for Academic Excellence
- Role: Co-PI
- Awarded by: United States Intelligence Community
- Year Awarded: 2006
- Total Dollars: $2,500,000
Integrating Latin American Studies into the University Mission.
- Role: PI
- Awarded by: Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program. United States Department of Education
- Year Awarded: 2006
- Total Dollars: $165,000
Medical Interpreting Training Institute
- Awarded by: Faculty Development Council. University of Texas Pan American
- Year Awarded: 2006
- Total Dollars: $1,968
Career Development Fund
- Awarded by: College of Humanities. University of Arizona
- Year Awarded: 2004
- Total Dollars: $3,000
“Crossing Borders: Creating Collaborative Learning Communities across Cultures and Competencies”
- Role: Co-PI
- Awarded by: Arizona Board of Regents. Learner-Centered Education Grant
- Year Awarded: 2003
- Total Dollars: $25,000

Publications

Books

2022. Health Disparities and the Applied Linguist. (with Maricel Santos, Rachel Showstack, Dalia Magaña, and Drew Colcher). New York: Routledge.
2020. Spanish in Healthcare: Policy, Practice and Pedagogy in Latino Health. Series: Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Portuguese Linguistics. Series Editor: Dale Koike. Routledge.
2020. Tension and Contention in Language Education for Latinxs in the United States: Experience and Ethics in Teaching and Learning. (co-authored with Robert Train). Series: Language Education Tensions in Global and Local Contexts. Series Editors: Guadalupe Valdés and Reynaldo Macías. Routledge and Center for Applied Linguistics.
2006. Mexican Americans and Language: Del dicho al hecho. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.

Edited Collections

Forthcoming. Handbook of Language, Public Health and Health Care. (co-edited with Pilar Ortega, Maichou Lor, and Susana Ramirez). Hoboken NJ: Wiley.
2014. Language and Borders, International Perspectives. A special issue of The International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Number 227.
2008. Recovering the US Hispanic Linguistic Heritage. Houston: Arte Público Press. (Co-Editors, Alejandra Balestra and Maria Irene Moyna)
2003. Border Talk: Language issues on the U.S.-Mexico border. A special
issue of Rio Bravo: A Journal of Borderlands.

Chapters in scholarly books and monographs

2021. El español para fines específicos y los programas de lengua de herencia: El capital social en el aula y más allá. In Torres J & Pascual y Cabo D (Eds) El Español como lengua de herencia. Series: Advances in Spanish Language Teaching. Series Editor: Javier Muñoz Basols. Routledge.
2020. Constructing La Villa Hispana: Cultural citizenship, economic development and linguistic landscaping in Ohio. In F. Salgado Robles & E. Lamboy, eds. Spanish across Domains in the United States: Education, public spaces and social media. Leiden: Brill Publishers (with Elena Foulis).
2018. Spanish for the professions and community service learning: Applications with heritage learners. In K. Potowski, ed. The Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language. New York: Routledge, pp. 389-402. (With Ann Abbott)
2018. Langauge and borders: Case studies from the U.S. Southwest. In E. Núñez-Méndez, (Ed). Bilingualism and Spanish in Contact: Sociolinguistic Case Studies. New York: Routledge, pp. 9-26.
2018. Language and Power in a Medical Spanish for Heritage Learners Program: A Learning by Design Perspective. In G. Zapata and M. Lacorte, (Eds). Multiliteracies Pedagogy and Language Learning: Teaching Spanish to Heritage Speakers. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 107-128. (with Karmín San Martín).
2016. Goals and Beyond in Heritage Language Education: From Competencies to Capabilities. In S. Beaudrie and M. Fairclough (Eds.) Innovative Approaches in HL Pedagogy: From Research to Practice. Washington DC: Georgetown UP, pp. 39-54.
2014. Spanish in the Health Professions. In M. Lacorte (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics. New York: Routledge, pp. 410-437.
2014. Azucarao: Tato Laviera and the poetics of health promotion. In W. Luis and S. Alvarez (Eds.) The AmeRícan Poet: Essays on the Work of Tato Laviera. New York: CENTRO Press, pp. 172-182.
2013. Public health and the politics of Spanish in early 20th century Texas. In J. Del Valle (Ed.) A Political History of Spanish: The Making of a Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 293-304.
2013. Política e ideología del lenguaje en la atención sanitaria para hispanohablantes en los Estados Unidos. In D. Dumitrescu (Ed.) El español en los Estados Unidos ¿E pluribus unum? New York: Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, pp. 233-250.
2012. Policy and Planning Research for Spanish as a Heritage Language. In M. Fairclough and S. Beaudrie, (Eds.). Spanish as a Heritage Language: State of the Science. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, pp 61-78.
2010. Language and Power in Healthcare: Towards a theory of language barriers among linguistic minorities in the United States. In J. Watzke, P. Chamness Miller & M. Mantero, (Eds.). Readings in Language Studies Volume 2: Language and Power. Saint Louis: International Society for Language Studies, pp. 59-74.
2010. Medical Spanish for Heritage Learners: A Prescription to Improve the Health of Spanish-Speaking Communities. S. Rivera-Mills and J. Trujillo, eds. Building Communities and Making Connections. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 2-15.
2010. Documenting the Past, Envisioning the Future: The Historical Sociolinguistics of Spanish in the U.S. Southwest. S. Rivera-Mills and D. Villa, eds. Spanish of the Southwest: A Language in Transition. Madrid: Iberoamericana, pp. 17-24.
2010. El lenguaje en la frontera. A. Rodriguez and L. Garcia, eds. Cruzando el umbral de la palabra: Estudios críticos de literatura y lenguaje. Monterrey: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, pp. 55-67.

Refereed journal articles

2023. Efficacy of a language-concordant health coaching intervention for latinx with diabetes. Patient Education and Counseling (with Usha Menon, Laura Szalacha, Margaret Graham, Jose Pares-Avila, Kaitlyn Rechenberg and Leah Stauber).
2022. Recognizing and dismantling raciolinguistic hierarchies in Latinx health. AMA Journal of Ethics. (with Pilar Ortega, Alejandra Zapien-Hidalgo, Marco Aleman, and Tiffany Shin).
2021. Rethinking the term “limited English proficiency” to improve language-appropriate healthcare for all. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. (with Pilar Ortega and Tiffany Shin).
2021. Feasibility and acceptability of a language concordant health coaching intervention delivered by nurses for Latinx with type 2 diabetes. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing 18: 210-216 (with K Rechenberg, L Szalacha, M Graham, L Stauber and U Menon).
2020. Provider recommendation for HPV vaccination across Hispanic/Latinx subgroups in the United States. Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics 17:1083-1088. (with Paul Reiter, Michael Pennell and Mira Katz).
2020. Incorporate language in medical education to address structural barriers to care during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Academic Medicine 96: e10-e11. (with Pilar Ortega, Tiffany Shin, and Cristina Perez-Cordon).
2020. Communicating and Coaching in Spanish for Chronic Care. Journal of Nursing Education. (with Jose Pares-Avila, Margaret Graham, Leah Stauber, Laura Szalacha, and Usha Menon).
2020. Virtual medical Spanish education at the corazón of Hispanic/Latinx health during COVID-19. Medical Science Educator 39: 1-6. (with Pilar Ortega, Tiffany Shin, and Cristina Perez Cordon).
2020. Language and health equity during COVID-19: Lessons and opportunities. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 31: 1530-1535 (with Pilar Ortega and Lisa C. Diamond.)
2020. Scoping review: Definitions and outcomes of patient-provider language concordance in health. Patient Education and Counseling 103: 1883-1901 (with Maichou Lor).
2020. HPV vaccine coverage across Hispanic subgroups in the United States. Cancer Causes and Control 31:905-914. (with Reiter PL, Pennell ML, Perkins RB & Katz ML).
2019. Communication pitfalls in interpreted genetic counseling sessions. Journal of Genetic Counseling 28:4 (with Rachel Ault, Ana Morales, Russell Ault and Allison Spitale).
2019. Living into immigrant communities through hospitality practice: A Christian ethical approach to community service learning. Journal of Christianity and World Languages (with Elena Foulis)
2016. Against Medical Spanish: Spanish in the health professions yesterday, today, and tomorrow. ADFL Bulletin 44:1.
2013. Innovative approaches to promote a culturally competent and diverse health care workforce at a Hispanic Serving Institution. Academic Medicine 88: 12 (with Suad Ghaddar, John Ronnau, and Shawn Saladin).

Refereed electronic publications

2018. Nurses’ perspectives on language standardization in health care: The silencing of bilingual health providers. Heritage Language Journal 15 pp. 297-318 (with Carmen King de Ramirez)
2014. Vital Signs: A photovoice assessment of the linguistic landscape in Spanish in healthcare facilities along the U.S.-Mexico border. International Journal of Communication and Health.
2012. Elevating “low” language for high stakes: A case for critical, community-based learning in a Medical Spanish for heritage learners program. Heritage Language Journal 9 (with Adam Schwartz).
2003. “Classroom based dialect awareness: A Critical applied linguistic approach”. Heritage Language Journal 1.

Glenn Martinez, Ph.D.