Begoña EcheverriaBegoña Echerverria is the daughter of Basque immigrants to southern
California. A native Basque speaker with a PhD in sociology, she is a
Professor at UC Riverside's Graduate School of Education. Her
ethnographic work on Basque language shooling has appeared in academic
journals in education, sociolinguistics, and anthropology (Echeverria
2003a, 2003b, 2005, 2007, 2010). She has also published work examining
gender, identity and language use in Basque song (Echeverria 2014a,
2014b) biblical texts (Echeverria 2006, 2016), and folk tales
(Echeverria 2016). Her creative works also include the historical novel
The Hammer of Witches (The Hammer of Witches KVCR), loosely based on the
1610 burnings of Basque "witches" from the Baztan Valley in northern
Spain from which her family hails. Read More Read Less