A native of Mobile, Alabama, Erin Hannahan received her B.A. in Language and Linguistics from Baylor University. During a gap year between her undergraduate and master’s studies, she taught English as a foreign language at Máximo Nivel, an English language institute in Cusco, Peru, where she also began studying Quechua. After attending the 2019 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, she began an M.A. in Linguistics at the University of Georgia and was awarded three consecutive Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships to continue her study of Quechua. After graduating with an M.A. in Linguistics and a Graduate Certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, she taught Spanish and Latino/a Multidisciplinary Studies at the University of Georgia. Her research interests include language documentation, second language acquisition, Latin American multilingualism, language prestige, and women’s health in Latin America.
