She earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Southern California (USC). Her main areas of research focus on phonology and phonetics with a particular interest in variation and exceptionality. Her research on variation has focused on Modern Hebrew and Rioplatense Spanish. Dr. Temkin Martínez has been at Boise State University since Fall 2009 and has taught Introduction to Language Studies, Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology (Special Topics), Psycholinguistics, Applied English Linguistics, and the Senior Seminar in Linguistics. She currently serves as the adviser for the Boise State Linguistics Association.