Viola G. Miglio is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She has held the Barandiaran Endowed Chair of Basque Studies since 2010. Professor Miglio has MAs in Germanic Philology from the University of Edinburgh and Bologna, a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Maryland, and a BA in Icelandic from the University of Iceland. She taught English and Romance linguistics at the University of Iceland, before accepting the position at UCSB, where she has been since 2002. She has also been affiliated faculty at the University of Iceland since 2014. Prof. Miglio has taught linguistics courses at several universities in Iceland, Italy, Mexico, as well as courses on Basque historical whaling at Boise State University and on the rights of linguistic minorities at the University of Michigan (LSA summer institute). She has published a number of articles on linguistics, translation, languages in contact, linguistic rights, Basque historical whaling and Basque-Icelandic interactions in the 17th century. She wrote the book Interactions between Markedness and Faithfulness Constraints in Vowel Systems (Routledge 2005, 2012), and she is co-editor with Xabier Irujo of The Protection of Cultural Diversity (Center for Basque Studies/University of Nevada Press, 2014) and Basque Whalers in the North Atlantic (2015), and with Josep Martines of Approaches to Evidentiality in Romance (2015).