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Susan Gal

Susan Gal (born 1949) is the Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago[1] She is the author or co-author of several books and numerous articles on linguistic anthropology, gender and politics, and the social history of Eastern Europe.[2]

Education and career

Gal received her B.A. in psychology and anthropology from Barnard College in 1970 and received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976.[3] [4] She taught at Rutgers University from 1977 to 1994, and then moved to the University of Chicago, serving as the Chair of the Department of Anthropology between 1999 and 2002.[5]

Honors and awards

Gal received the Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 2002 for the study of language ideologies and political authority during and after socialism,[6] and has been awarded the SSRC-ACLS International Fellowship, as well as Fulbright and NIMH Fellowships.

In 2007 Gal was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Gal is a member of the editorial board of American Anthropologist.[7]

Research

Her first book, Language Shift: Social Determinants of Linguistic Change in Bilingual Austria, was published in 1979 and examined the linguistic situation of a Hungarian minority in the town of Burgenland, Austria. As Richard Coates states in his review of the book, the book argues that "language shift is essentially a symbolic change correlated with the changing relative status of the value-systems which each language symbolizes, and not a simple function of industrialization, urbanization or some other large-scale social change."[8] Gal co-wrote the book The Politics of Gender After Socialism (2000) with Gail Kligman, which won the 2001 Heldt Prize (awarded by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies),[9] and co-edited the anthology Reproducing Gender: Politics, Publics, and Everyday Life after Socialism with Kligman. These books examine the complex relationship between ideas and practices of gender and political economic change, taking the post-Soviet transition across a number of East Central European countries as case studies.

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Susan Gal . University of Chicago Department of Anthropology . 2012 . 2013-02-21.
  2. Web site: Google Scholar - Susan Gal citations. 2022-02-11. scholar.google.com.
  3. Web site: Susan Gal. Department of Anthropology - University of Chicago. September 22, 2018.
  4. Gal . Susan . Peasant Men Can't Get Wives: Language Change and Sex Roles in a Bilingual Community . Language in Society . 1978 . 7 . 1 . 1–16 . 10.1017/S0047404500005303 . 4166971 . 144342959 .
  5. Web site: Susan Gal. Department of Linguistics - University of Chicago. September 22, 2018. September 23, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180923010017/https://linguistics.uchicago.edu/faculty/gal. dead.
  6. Web site: Susan Gal . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . 2013 . 2013-02-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130304075659/http://www.gf.org/fellows/5035-susan-gal . 2013-03-04 .
  7. Web site: Editorial board. American Anthropologist. 10.1111/(ISSN)1548-1433. April 6, 2019.
  8. S. Gal Language shift. Social determinants of linguistic change in bilingual Austria. New York: Academic Press, 1979. Pp. xii + 201.. Richard. Coates. Journal of Linguistics. 17. 1. 131–133. Cambridge Core. 10.1017/S0022226700006824. 1981. 144444713 .
  9. Web site: Laurels to Linguists Archive . Linguistic Society of America . 2012. 2013-02-21.

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