Roberto Zavala

Roberto Zavala is Associate Professor at CIESAS-Sureste, a Mexican interdisciplinary research centre for Social Sciences, located in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas. He got his BA in Linguistics at the National School of Anthropology and History in Mexico, and his MA and PhD in Linguistics at the University of Oregon. He has conducted extensive fieldwork on Mayan, Uto- Aztecan and Mixe-Zoquean languages spoken in Middle-America and has written two grammars: one on Akatek-Maya and another on Olutec-Mixe-Zoquean. He has written several papers on Wastek, Akatek and Olutec. He is currently working on language contact in the southern part of Mesoamerica, and language documentation of Zoque, Olutec and Chol.