Jhonni Rochelle Charisse Carr, PhD

¡Hola! I am a sociolinguist with a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. I teach Spanish linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley. My research examines how linguistic visibility in public and institutional spaces shapes social belonging, access, and power. Drawing on interdisciplinary methods, I study the linguistic landscape—the displayed language of public space—to analyze Spanish and other minoritized languages in multilingual communities across California, Mexico, and Brazil. My work integrates large-scale quantitative analyses of urban signage with community-based interviews to investigate linguistic accessibility and the social consequences of language presence and absence, situating these patterns within broader questions of language justice.