CHP 2025 Miami trip student participants
Ten Chancellor’s Scholars travelled to Miami with CHP in late May 2025. Using sociolinguistics as a guiding discipline, they explored the relationship between language, power, and multilingualism within the diverse cultural landscape of Miami. These students studied how migration, exile, globalization, and the media shaped the stories of Spanish, Haitian Creole, English, and other languages. Through readings, food tours, local fieldwork, seminars with Miami-based researchers, visits with local authors, and cooking classes, students immersed themselves into Miami to study multilingualism in an urban, global city. Professor Sal Callesano led the tour, and he is a sociolinguist whose research focuses on language variation, perception, and bilingualism, specifically investigating the relationship between language and social variation and how that variation is judged and policed by others.
If this event is full when you try to register, please email chp@illinois.edu to be placed on a waitlist.