Acknowledgements

First, we want to acknowledge our deep gratitude for the numerous ways that Kim Geeslin truly excelled in every portion of her life as a researcher, teacher, mentor, colleague, friend, and confidante, not to mention as a mother, sister, and daughter. We provide more detailed accounts of the manifold ways that Kim has forever shaped us in the introductory chapter, as do other colleagues (Bob Bayley, Laura Gurzynski-Weiss, Kristen Kennedy Terry, and Eliza Pavalko) in the epilogue.

We are incredibly grateful to the numerous scholars who supported this project from its initial proposal stages to its publication. We are thankful for the diligent work and spirit of collaboration of the contributing authors who made this volume possible. We would also like to recognize the following individuals for their help in reviewing the chapters in this volume: Grant Berry, Whitney Chappell, Jenny Dumont, Chelsea Escalante, Stephen Fafulas, Angela George, Amanda Huensch, Tiffany Judy, Stephanie Knouse, Xiaoshi Li, Bret Linford, Ian Michalski, María Elena Placencia, Rebecca Pozzi, Ana de Prada Pérez, Brendan Regan, Lauren B. Schmidt, Naomi Shin, Virginia Terán, Trish Thrasher, Nicole Tracy-Ventura, Mason Wirtz, and Sara Zahler. We are also grateful to Patrícia Amaral and Ymke Verploegen for editorial support.

Finally, we would like to acknowledge the late Robert Bayley, who contributed to this volume as a co-author on both a chapter and the volume’s epilogue. Bob was an ardent and generous supporter of this project and of all of the scholars who participated. He championed the idea for the volume, participated fully (despite his own ailing health), and encouraged wider dissemination through a conference panel at NWAV 52 in Miami, Florida in November 2024. Like Kim Geeslin, Bob Bayley was a kind, generous, and supportive mentor to so many. He made an indelible mark on the fields of Hispanic linguistics and sociolinguistics and on innumerable scholars and mentees. He is dearly missed.