Christian Puma Ninacuri

Christian Puma Ninacuri is originally from Ambato (Ecuador). He graduated with a B.A. in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE). Christian entered the Ph.D. program in the fall of 2017 and is interested in sociolinguistics, with an emphasis on language contact (especially between Kichwa and Spanish in Ecuador), dialectology, and language identity. Christian is also a member of the interdisciplinary linguistic research project Oralidad Modernidad that aims to study indigenous languages in Ecuador.