Luisa Martin Rojo

Luisa Martín Rojo (born 1961) is a Spanish linguist researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), and a visiting professor at the ARC Research Centre of City University of New York (CUNY). At UAM, she heads the Interdisciplinary Research Center MIRCo (Multilingualism, Discourse and Communication), and she is listed as a founder and former president of the Iberian Discourse and Society Association (EDISo). She specializes in sociolinguistics and she has published research focusing on multilingualism in areas that include traditional education and related activities, especially as it affects Hispanic populations. Recently she has begun studying the ways by which people who engage in protest movements can transform urban areas. Her published research studies, which have appeared in national and international journals, focus on multilingualism outside traditional educational arenas.