Salikoko S. Mufwene is Professor of Linguistics and member of the Committee on Evolutionary Biology and the Commitee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Ecology of Language Evolution (Cambridge, 2001), Créoles, écologie sociale, évolution linguistique (2005), and Language Evolution: Contact, Competition and Change (2008). He has edited several books, including Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America (2014). He is the founding editor of the Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact series. His research includes the emergence of creoles, the phylogenetic emergence of language, and globalization and language vitality.