Sergio Francisco Romero

Born and raised in Guatemala City, Sergio Romero is associate professor at the University of Texas in Austin with appointments in the Lozano-Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) and the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese. Currently, he serves as LLILAS’s Associate Director for Indigenous Programs, and is also a Numerary Member of the Guatemalan Academy of Geography and History. He is a former Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Fellow (2018-2021) and a former Fulbright US Scholar (2022). Trained in linguistics and anthropology, his research on language change and indigenous languages is cross-linguistic, multi-sited and interdisciplinary. His interests include language variation and change, ethnicity and colonialism, semiotics and ritual, the emergence of Mesoamerican Christianity, and, more recently, Maya migration to the United States. He has written extensively on K’iche’, Kaqchikel, Q’eqchi’, Ixil and Nahuatl communities. His publications include “Language and Ethnicity among the K’iche’ Maya” published by Utah University Press and numerous journal articles and chapters in edited volumes. His next book, an annotated Spanish translation of the Memorial de Sololá (Kaqchikel), will be published in Guatemala City this year.