Kevin Martín

Kevin is a PhD candidate on the linguistics track of the Romance Languages and Literatures Program, emphasis Italian. Kevin’s interdisciplinary research focuses on the sociolinguistic history of the Romance language family, with particular emphasis on its interactions with languages and cultures beyond Western Europe. In his dissertation project, Kevin uses qualitative and quantitative historical sociolinguistic methods to investigate linguistic phenomena that spawned from the Italian colonial period in the Horn of Africa (1882-1947), such as the development of Italian-African pidgin languages. Before joining Berkeley in 2021, Kevin worked as a high school foreign language teacher and a mobile app translator in New York City.