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Susan Gal is the Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, specializing in Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology. She earned her PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976. Gal has conducted ethnographic linguistic field research in Austria and Hungary, focusing on language shift and social determinants of linguistic change. Her influential book, 'Language Shift: Social Determinants of Linguistic Change in Bilingual Austria' (1979), examined the situation of the Hungarian minority in Austria and continues to be a reference in the field. Gal's research interests also encompass language ideology, multilingualism, gendered language practices, and the history of linguistics. She has served on various esteemed committees and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her recent work includes the co-authored book 'Signs of Difference: Language Ideology and Social Life' (2019), which won the 2021 Edward Sapir Prize from the Society for Linguistic Anthropology. Gal is currently engaged in a project exploring mass media communication in the post-communist period in Eastern Europe.
Department of Philosophy