Susana Victoria Rivera-Mills is a Salvadoran sociolinguist and academic administrator serving as the president of Aurora University since 2023.
Susana Rivera-Mills | |
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.png) Rivera-Mills in 2019 | |
| 14th President of Aurora University | |
| Assumed office June 1, 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Rebecca L. Sherrick |
| Personal details | |
| Born | San Salvador, El Salvador |
| Alma mater | University of Iowa University of New Mexico |
Life
editRivera-Mills was born and raised in San Salvador.[1] Her mother stayed at home and her father owned a construction and trucking business.[1] She attended a girls Catholic school.[1] In 1982, at the age of twelve, her family immigrated to San Francisco and later to Eureka, California.[1] She attended Humboldt State University before transferring to University of Iowa where she earned a B.A. (1991) in Spanish and a M.A. (1993) in Spanish linguistics.[1][2] She completed a Ph.D. in Romance languages at the University of New Mexico in 1998.[1] Her dissertation was titled, Language Use, Proficiency, and Attitudes Among Hispanics in a Northern California Community.[3] Garland D. Bills was her dissertation director.[3]
Rivera-Mills' researched Latino communities, sociolinguistics, and Spanish language and culture.[2] She was a faculty member at Northern Arizona University for 12 years.[1] She joined Oregon State University as chair of the department of modern languages.[1] She also served as executive associate dean of the liberal arts college, dean of undergraduate studies, and vice provost of academic programs and learning innovation from 2007 to 2018.[1] In July 2018, Rivera-Mills became the provost and executive vice president of academic affairs at Ball State University.[4][2] On June 1, 2023, she became the 14th president of Aurora University, succeeding Rebecca L. Sherrick.[2] She is the first Latina in the position.[4]
Selected works
edit- Rivera-Mills, Susana Victoria (2000). New Perspectives on Current Sociolinguistic Knowledge with Regard to Language Use, Proficiency, and Attitudes Among Hispanics in the U.S.: The Case of a Rural Northern California Community. E. Mellen Press. ISBN 978-0-7734-7906-7.
- Rivera-Mills, Susana Victoria; Trujillo, Juan Antonio, eds. (2010). Building Communities and Making Connections. Cambridge Scholars. ISBN 978-1-4438-1957-2.
- Moyna, María Irene; Rivera-Mills, Susana Victoria, eds. (2016). Forms of Address in the Spanish of the Americas. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 978-90-272-5809-0.
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i Adam, Michelle (August 2023). "Dr. Susana Rivera-Mills: From Immigrant to President". Hispanic Outlook on Education Magazine. Retrieved 2023-10-28.
- ^ a b c d "Dr. Susana Rivera-Mills named 14th president of Aurora University". aurora.edu. March 13, 2023. Retrieved 2023-10-28.
- ^ a b Rivera-Mills, Susana Victoria (1998). Language Use, Proficiency, and Attitudes Among Hispanics in a Northern California Community (Ph.D. thesis). University of New Mexico. OCLC 40471760.
- ^ a b "Aurora University new president Dr. Susana Rivera-Mills". CBS Chicago. 2023-03-13. Retrieved 2023-10-28.