Salikoko Mufwene

Salikoko S. Mufwene studies the evolution of languages. His recent books include Language Evolution: Contact, Competition, and Change (Continuum Press, 2008); Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America (editor, University of Chicago Press, 2014), and Complexity in Language: Developmental and Evolutionary Perspectives (co-editor, Cambridge University Press, 2017). He is the Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Linguistics, the Committees on Evolutionary Biology, Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and African Studies, and the College at the University of Chicago. Mufwene also serves as the Interim Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture.