Alana DeLoge

  • Quechua Instructor, Quechua Program Coordinator, Quechua Minor Advisor

Alana DeLoge is currently the Quechua Program Coordinator at the University of Pittsburgh and one of the Directors of QINTI (Quechua Innovation and Teaching Initiative), a collaborative project of language teaching, advocacy, and activism, housed at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She has a PhD in Linguistics, an MA in Anthropology, and an MPH in Behavioral and Community Health Sciences. Bridging all three fields, her research in sociolinguistics focuses on the vitality of Quechua as a global language, demonstrated through the domain of health. Through her work with QINTI, she also is engaged in the scholarship of teaching and learning. 

Research Cluster
- Sociolinguistics
- Public Health
- Medical and Linguistic Anthropology
- Language Advocacy and Activism
- Teaching and Learning
- Language Variation & Change
- Field Methods

Research Interest Summary

Ethnolinguistic vitality of Quechua

Research Cluster