Mario López-Gopar (Ph.D., OISE/University of Toronto) is a Professor at the Facultad de Idiomas at Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, México. Mario's main research interests are intercultural and multilingual education of Indigenous peoples in Mexico, as well as decolonizing pedagogies for young learners of the "English" language in Mexico. He has received over 15 academic awards. His Ph. D. thesis was awarded both the 2009 AERA Second Language Research Dissertation Award and the 2009 OISE Outstanding Thesis of the Year award. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Language Education and Identity, Applied Linguistics, ELT Journal, and the International Journal of Multilingualism, among others. He has also published numerous book chapters. His latest books are Decolonizing Primary English Language Teaching (Multilingual Matters, 2016) and International Perspectives on Critical Pedagogies in ELT (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019).