Carlos Enrique Ibarra

PhD Candidate

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Carlos Enrique Ibarra passed his Comprehensive Exams in fall 2017 and since then has been working on his dissertation on “Intergenerational Linguistic Identity, Attitudes, Usage, and Language Preservation among Bilingual and Trilingual Mixtecos in Woodburn, Oregon.” Carlos Enrique is a rigorous scholar, and his research is important, innovative, and community engaged. While focused on Woodburn, Oregon, his research engages Mexico directly in terms of his subjects’ language practice and attitudes in Mexico, prior to immigration. His research also has implications for indigenous language studies in Mexico as he questions the notion that there is just one mutually understandable variety of Mixteco.