Jaime Pérez González

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Jaime Pérez González is a bilingual Tseltal-Spanish speaker from Mexico and a linguist who writes literature in his spare time. He is currently a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Cruz (2021–23). In 2022 he started an assistant professorship in the Department of Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara.

  • A photograph of a man in a colorful talking into a microphone

    Talk: A Tseltal Poem

    September 2023
    Jaime Pérez González
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