Acknowledgements
More than most other projects, edited volumes require a team effort. The authors who contributed to this volume have been highly responsive, engaging, and good willed, and have produced amazing work in a short period of time. I am grateful for their collaboration, their questions, their suggestions and ultimately for the care and attention each paid to their individual contribution. There is some risk in identifying authors through their work, rather than through a prior personal connection but, in so doing, I believe the contents of this volume are a testament that the risk has paid off. The chapters are uniformly excellent and represent the leading edge of each sub-field included and, through the process of cross-referencing and planning, new collaborations have been established that will further enhance inquiry across fields. I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to each and every author who contributed to the Handbook.
Every volume begins with a dialogue between a handful of people, but the ultimate quality of the final product depends heavily on the input from many others. I am grateful to the anonymous reviewers of the original proposal, whose comments helped to delimit the scope of the volume even further. Additionally, I am indebted to the many colleagues who agreed to review individual chapters, providing helpful feedback for the authors along the way, often at a record pace. These reviewers are listed here in recognition of the important service they have provided:
Jessi Aaron
Patrícia Amaral
Mark Amengual
Meghan Armstrong-Abrami
Sonia Barnes
Silvina Bongiovanni
Melissa Bowles
María José Cabrera-Puche
José Camacho
María Cristina Cuervo
Lori Czerwionka
Justin Davidson
Gibran Delgado-Díaz
Manuel Delicado Cantero
Antonio Fábregas
Timothy Face
Carolina González
John Grinstead
Tim Gupton
Manuel Gutiérrez
Daniel Jung
Matt Kanwit
Tania Leal
Bret Linford
Luis López
Kelley Lowther Pereira
Cristóbal Lozano
Jim Michnowicz
Joan C. Mora
Neil Myler
Chiyo Nishida
Erin O’Rourke
Rafael Orozco
Ana Pérez-Leroux
María Elena Placencia
Jorge Porcel
Margaret Quesada
Katherine Rehner
Marcos Rohena-Madrazo
Francisco Salgado-Robles
Elena Schoonmaker-Gates
Sandro Sessarego
Christine Shea
Alexandra Spalek
Gabriela Terrazas Duarte
Ellen Thompson
Natasha Tokowicz
Rena Torres Cacoullos
Catherine Travis
Jorge Valdés Kroff
Julio Villa-García
Mark Waltermire
Caroline Wiltshire
Karen Zagona
Sara Zahler
I am grateful to Andrew Winnard, Executive Publisher at Cambridge University Press, for his guidance on this project from start to finish. From our first coffee meeting in Indiana to the present, he has been upbeat and has provided sound advice and valuable feedback. I am also thankful to Editorial Assistant Stephanie Taylor, Content Manager Adam Hooper, and Copy-editor Virginia Catmur, for their support and attention to detail. These individuals, and likely many others that I do not know, have been immensely helpful and have kept the volume moving forward. In developing the proposal and addressing helpful reviewer comments, I leaned heavily on colleagues across several fields for their insider knowledge. Most especially, I am thankful to Tania Leal for her assistance and her willingness to talk through some of the most vexing challenges with me. In order to manage the work of this particular project, I have relied on the help of several research assistants during this time period to help with other professional demands. Whether directly or indirectly involved in the Handbook, each has made this project possible. During the timeframe of this project Silvina Bongiovanni, Danielle Daidone, Megan DiBartolomeo, Juan Escalona Torres, Carly Henderson, Dylan Jarrett, Daniel Jung, Tess Kuntz, Sean McKinnon, Ian Michalski, and Sara Zahler have all been instrumental in keeping me afloat!
In addition to the many research assistants named above, there is one individual who has been dedicated to this project from the very beginning and has seen it through to today. My research assistant, Travis Evans-Sago, has been involved in every step of the production of this volume and I am especially grateful to him. He has helped manage records, correspondence, the review process, multiple versions of papers, marketing materials, and each editorial task along the way. What is more, he has done this with good humor and genuine interest in the process and quality of the volume. Working with him has made the Handbook project infinitely more engaging and enjoyable.
In writing this I reflected on the last chance I had the opportunity to individually and publicly acknowledge those who support my efforts to produce worthwhile scholarship and to balance those demands against other responsibilities, personal and professional. Although those demands have changed, I was struck by how fortunate I am to have a steady, continuous network of support. In the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, several colleagues continue to provide leadership, research and professional support, and an atmosphere of collegiality that makes a demanding profession enjoyable. Likewise, I am fortunate to belong to a program in Hispanic Linguistics that is energetic, hard-working and flexible enough to move forward in changing times. I am most especially grateful for the support of family and friends outside the office. Without each of them, the work–life balance would cease to exist.
