Title: Associate Professor of Chicano Studies
Office Location: Bowden Hall 228
Campus Phone: 6512
E-Mail Address: canop@wnmu.edu

Degrees: B.A., Business Education and Spanish, Western New Mexico University, 1975
M.A., Spanish, New Mexico State University, 1977
A.B.D., University of New Mexico

Date began at WNMU: 1989

Academic Research and Interests: Hispanic Linguistics, Spanish of the Southwest, Teaching Spanish as a Heritage Language, Spanish Language Maintenance in the United States, Societal Bilingualism, Second Language Acquisition

Favorite Quote: "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."