Acknowledgements

This volume is a direct product of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2021 conference, hosted by Wake Forest University. We are grateful to the many individuals, offices, and sponsors that allowed Wake Forest University to host HLS for the first time. First, we extend our deepest gratitude to our colleagues in the Department of Spanish who, over a period of 2 years worked together to create an invigorating and accessible conference for our field: Irma Alarcón, Diego Burgos, Jerid Francom, Luis González, César Gutiérrez, and Claudia Valdez. When the COVID-19 pandemic made a virtual conference the most prudent choice, this group worked, alongside our Information Systems team of Donald Dillingham, Preston Neil and Mike Greco, to bring our research community a seamless virtual conference with 109 presentations, four workshops, three plenary talks, two poster sessions, and one panel discussion on bilingual education over a three-day period. We thank our community partners Dr. Leslie Baldwin, Debra Gladstone, Mary Jones, and Dr. Jennifer Love for their contributions to the panel, as well as our plenary speakers Dr. Esther Brown, Dr. Concepción Company Company, and Dr. Kim Potowski. To our knowledge, this is the first time HLS has hosted a panel discussion comprised of researchers and educators geared towards the public as well as the first virtual instantiation of the conference.

Of course, HLS was made possible by our generous sponsors including the Wake Forest University Humanities Institute whose support was made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. HLS also received generous support from the College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of the Provost, the Department of Spanish, the Linguistics Program, and the Latin American and Latino Studies Program.

Finally, we would like to thank the manuscript and volume reviewers. Their expertise and generosity of time and energy has certainly improved the quality, flow, and cohesiveness of the proceedings. We appreciate this labor of love: Amanda Boomershine, Clara Burgo, Salvatore James Callesano, Danielle Daidone, Rodrigo Delgado, Gibrán Delgado Díaz, Vanessa Elias, Andrea Faber, Carmen Fernández Flores, Kimberly Geeslin, Aarnes Gudmestad, Nick Henriksen, Ane Icardo Isasa, Abril Jimenez, Cynthia Kauffeld, Victoria Mateu, Sean McKinnon, Jim Michnowicz, Rafael Orozco, Silvia Perez-Cortes, Chris Pountain, Rajiv Rao, Adrian Rodríguez Ricceli, Megan Solon, Eva Maria Suarez Budendender, Imanol Suárez Palma, María Turrero-Garcia, Sara Zahler.