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Barbara Blaha Degler Pfeiler, Ph.D.

Born in Austria and naturalized Mexican. She has a PhD in Romance Philology from the University of Vienna (1987). In 2005 she obtained the post-doctorate and she came legendi in Mesoamerican Studies from the University of Hamburg, Germany. From 1989 to 2006 he worked as full-time professor-researcher at the Faculty of Anthropological Sciences of the Autonomous University of Yucatan, where she held the position of coordinator in the area of ​​Linguistics and Literature (1990-1995). She is currently a full time C researcher at the Peninsular Center in Humanities and Social Sciences of the UNAM, located in Mérida.

She has coordinated several research projects in Mexico and has participated in international and interdisciplinary projects abroad, obtained important support from national and international institutions, and edited works in English, German, Mayan and Spanish. The fields of research are sociolinguistics, language acquisition and dialectology. Since 1980 her research work has been carried out in the Yucatan peninsula. It is from 2010 that is also dedicated to the description and acquisition of Huasteco San Luis Potosí.

Her teaching work includes various national and foreign academic entities. She has elaborated several curricula in linguistics and has directed a score of theses of degree, masters and doctorate. She is a member of the National System of Researchers, level II. In 2007 she obtained the distinction of "Tinker Visiting Professor" of the University of Chicago. In 2014 she obtained the Fulbright-García Robles scholarship.

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Main lines of research:

    ● Sociolingüística
    ● Adquisición de lenguas indígenas de México
    ● Documentación de lenguas indígenas






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