Sonia Kania, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Office: Hammond Hall 323
Office Phone: 817.272.5537
Fax: 817.272.5408
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Dr. Kania’s area of specialty is historical Spanish linguistics, particularly American Spanish of the colonial period. She has edited numerous documents from both Mexico and New Mexico and has written articles regarding features of American Spanish evidenced in colonial texts. Her articles have appeared in La corónica, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, and the Journal of the Southwest. Dr. Kania is a collaborator in the Cíbola Project, directed by Jerry R. Craddock of the University of California, Berkeley, which is concerned with the edition and publication of documents of the Hispanic Southwest from the 16th-18th centuries. Her continuing research involves the edition of the “Probanza de méritos” of Vicente de Zaldívar, a 135-folio document dating from 1600-1602. Her book, Mexican Spanish of the Colonial Period: Evidence from the Audiencia of New Galicia, is being published by the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (New York, Forthcoming 2009).

Visit Dr. Kania's UTA Research Profile  (includes her course syllabi).