John Banks (M.A. 2004) has published his master's thesis, "The Verbal Morphology of
Santiam Kalapuya," in Northwest Journal of Linguistics 1(2):1-98, 2007. John is entering the Ph.D. program in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Oregon in Fall 2007.

Robert Englebretson (Ph.D. 2000) has been named the recipient of the 2007 Phi Beta Kappa teaching award at Rice University. This annual award is given to a nontenured assistant professor at Rice who has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to student education in the liberal arts or sciences.

Robert Englebretson taught a presession course on "Transcribing Spoken Interaction" at the Linguistic Society of America Institute at Stanford University in July 2007.

Robert Englebretson's edited volume Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, Evaluation, Interaction was published in 2007 by John Benjamins.

Loretta O'Connor (Ph.D. 2004) has published Motion, Transfer and Transformation: The Grammar of Change in Lowland Chontal(John Benjamins, 2007).

Minerva Oropeza-Escobar (Ph.D. 2005) has published "Discourse, authority, and mediation in an ethnographic encounter in Eastern Mexico," Pragmatics 17(3):439-460, 2007.

In August 2007, Minerva Oropeza-Escobar (Ph.D. 2005) received a $25,000 UC-MEXUS CONACYCT grant to compile an electronic corpus of oral and written folktales of the Mexican State of Veracruz. Two UCSB faculty members, Stefan Th. Gries and John W. Du Bois, are also involved in the project.