Silvina Montrul has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2025-2026 for Brazil.
Fulbright Scholar Awards are prestigious fellowships that offer scholars opportunities to teach and conduct research abroad, playing a critical role in U.S. public diplomacy.
Montrul is a professor in the Departments of Spanish & Portuguese and Linguistics and the Marjorie Roberts Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Her research focuses primarily on language acquisition, language loss, and language change in bilingual individuals. Her latest book, “Native Speakers, Interrupted,” is a crosslinguistic and cross-generational study of three heritage languages in the United States: Spanish, Hindi, and Romanian. In 2023, this book received the L. Bloomfield Award from the Linguistics Society of America.