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Thomas Stephens is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Director of the Language Center. He provides leadership to The Language Center, the Language Engagement Project, and the Language and Social Justice Initiative. Professor Stephens is the co-author of “Dictionary of Latin American Identities” with J. Maddox IV (University Press of Florida Editorial Board, 2021).He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, most notably the Academic Excellence Grant, Rutgers University, Graduate Program in Bilingualism.For a full list of Professor Stephens' scholarly contributions and service to Rutgers, click here. He teaches courses on: History of the Spanish Language Race, Language, and Ethnicity in Latin America Language and Social Justice in Latin America The Romance Languages: A Brief Introduction Dialectology in the Spanish-Speaking World