{"id":24,"date":"2022-07-17T03:54:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T03:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/richsandoval\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2026-09-07T01:10:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:10:54","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/richsandoval\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I am an Associate Professor of Anthropology for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msudenver.edu\/soc\/\">Department of Sociology and Anthropology<\/a> at Metropolitan State University of Denver. I earned my <a href=\"https:\/\/media.proquest.com\/media\/hms\/ORIG\/2\/vSu5K?_s=9%2Fjp8P8kzqwzNk%2Bqvr6QLdsD248%3D\">PhD in Linguistics<\/a> with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/program\/clasp\/\">certificate in Culture, Language, and Social Practice<\/a> from the University of Colorado Boulder. As a linguistic anthropologist and educator, I focus on multimodal forms of linguistic expression and discourse. I do so from a variety of perspectives \u2013 sociocultural, interactional, historical \u2013 and always with an eye to how language intersects with other areas of meaning making (e.g., symbolic artistic, design-oriented, mathematic). <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">As such, I engage with many sub- and allied fields of linguistic anthrop<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">ology, including discourse analysis, gesture studies, and epigraphy. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">My research specifically involves Hand Talk and other traditional signed-language practices of Indigenous America, focusing on how sign-based and speech-based elements are combined within linguistically coherent expressions. I am currently examining this <i>linguistic bimodalism<\/i> within Ancient Maya texts, where (speech-based) hieroglyphs are accompanied by textual hand signs (which are held by depicted figures). In Sandoval (2025), I initiated the decipherment of these Ancient Maya hand signs and demonstrated how the hieroglyphic script and hand-sign script are textually integrated components of a beautifully complex Mayan scribal tradition. My previous work focused on describing the sign-speech linguistic bimodalism of Arapaho (an Algonquian language of North America&#8217;s Great Plains).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__headline\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an Associate Professor of Anthropology for the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Metropolitan State University of Denver. I earned my PhD in Linguistics with a certificate in Culture, Language, and Social Practice from the University of Colorado Boulder. As a linguistic anthropologist and educator, I focus on multimodal forms of linguistic expression <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/richsandoval\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":883,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/richsandoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/richsandoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/richsandoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/richsandoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/883"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/richsandoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/richsandoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/richsandoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/richsandoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}