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Jorge R Valdés Kroff
Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
The Pennsylvania State University
231 Burrowes Building (814) 865.0035
University Park, PA 16802 jrv147@psu.edu
Education
08/2008-present The Pennsylvania State University
Doctoral Student in Hispanic Linguistics, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
08/2006-05/2008 The Pennsylvania State University
Master of Arts in Hispanic Linguistics, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
08/1997-05/2001 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics
Bachelor of Arts in International Studies, Curriculum in International and Area Studies
Concentration in Political Science and the World System
08/1995-05/1997 North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Competitive 2 year high school program open to residents of North Carolina
Fellowships & Awards
09/2009-08/2012 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
08/2006-present Bunton-Waller Graduate Award, Penn State University
Assistantship offered through Penn State which includes teaching releases and summer funding
05/2008 Teaching Excellence Award, Penn State University
Award granted by Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese to graduate instructors who exhibit teaching excellence based on scores from student evaluations
01/2007 Teaching with Technology Certificate, Penn State University
Certificate awarded by Penn State upon successful completion of Teaching with Technology Portfolio, including website design and sample teaching materials
08/1997-05/2001 James M. Johnston Scholar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
4-year scholarship offered to approximately 70 incoming freshmen for completion of undergraduate degree
04/2008 Ford Foundation Diversity
Fellowship--Honorable Mention
Presentations
Valdés Kroff, J., Guzzardo, R., Dussias, P., Gerfen, H., & Gullifer, J. (2008). Processing grammatical gender in Spanish-English code-switches: A visual world study. Paper to be presented at the 2008 Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii. October 17-19.
Valdés Kroff, J., Guzzardo, R., Dussias, P., Gerfen, H., & Gullifer, J. (2008). The use of grammatical gender in the processing of spoken code-switches by adult Spanish-English bilinguals. Poster to be presented at the International Conference on Models of Interaction in Bilinguals. Bangor, Wales. October 24-26.
Valdés Kroff, J., Guzzardo, R., Dussias, P., Gerfen, H., & Gullifer, J. (2008). Grammatical gender in processing Spanish-English code-switches: A visual world study. Poster presented at the 21st CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. March 13-15.
Teaching Experience
2007-present The Pennsylvania State University
SPAN 215 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
SPAN 003 Intermediate Spanish
08/2001-08/2004 Kamihayashi, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Assistant English Teacher, 1st-9th grade
Research Experience
Spring 2009 Research Assistant to Dr. Paola Dussias, Dept. of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Penn State University
Spring 2008 Tutorials on Eyelink II eyetracking system under supervision of Dr. Paola Dussias, Dept. of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Penn State University
Summer 2007 LSA Summer Institute, Stanford University
Spring
2007 Tutorials on Praat and Soundforge under
supervision of Dr. Henry Gerfen, Dept. of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese,
Penn State University
Fall
2006 Research Assistant in lab of Dr. Judith Kroll,
Dept. of Psychology, Penn State University
Coded bilingual participants’ sound files in Spanish and English from word and picture naming tasks for naming accuracy in relation to target.
Other Work Experience
01/2005-07/2005 Social Research Associate, Injury Prevention Research Center, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Social Work
Assisted in collecting data for Latino Acculturation and Health Project, a research projected funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Also acted as the families’ social worker, advocating for them in the community by connecting them with needed resources.
09/2004-01/2005 Health Care Assistant, Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina
Clinical duties included Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) counseling, patient education on contraceptive methods and options counseling for pregnant women, phlebotomy, ultrasound tech, and assisting physicians with abortion procedures. Clerical duties included filing, phone calls to patients, verification of chart documentation, and closing financial aspects of clinic at the end of the day.