Rodolfo Cerrón Palomino - Southern Quechua, Cornell University, National University of San Marcos

Rodolfo Cerrón Palomino ( February 10th, 1940 in Huancayo, Peru) is a Peruvian linguist who has crucially contributed to the investigation and development of the Quechua language. He has also made outstanding contributions to the study of the Aymara, Mochica and Chipaya languages. He pursued his first degree at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima. After graduating, he obtained his Master s degree at Cornell University and his Ph.D. degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.