We are happy to share that Michol Malia Miller, a PhD candidate in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, has been chosen as one of 9 winners of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2026 Indigenous Language Scholarship Support Fund! Michol was also chosen as a winner in 2025. This fund is is intended for scholars presenting on Indigenous languages and used to support Indigenous scholarship presentations at the conference. It is meant to “facilitate the presentation of papers, posters, and roundtables on Indigenous languages.”
Michol Malia Miller is a doctoral candidate at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her primary research interests include critical curriculum and materials development and teacher training for Indigenous language revitalization, followed by secondary interests in task-based language teaching, critical pedagogy and cognitive usage-based approaches to second language acquisition. Motivated by her own personal journey of ancestral language reclamation of ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language), her research focuses on exploring ways that contemporary research in applied linguistics and second language acquisition can be leveraged to support the language revitalization efforts of Indigenous language communities around the world.
Congratulations, Michol! We are so proud of your hard work and achievements!
Visit the AAAL website for more information on their upcoming conference and other funding opportunities!