Spring 2024 Center Grant Recipients
Allison Bigelow (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese)
Rafael Alvarado (School of Data Science)
We are supporting Maya-led teams in Yucatán and Guatemala to launch digital resources for long-term language revindication in their communities. Since 2020, our project has been funded by CGII, VPR, and the NSF to develop 5 new editions of the ancient narrative Popol Wuj. In 2024-2025, Tz’utujil, K’iche’, Q’eqchi’, and Yukatek students and faculty from linguistics, psychology, communications, and art will travel to monolingual towns and host workshops at their home universities so that elders, parents, students, and youth can learn how to use these interactive texts and videos, while the UVA team completes the backbone and infrastructure here in Charlottesville.