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 in linguistic anthropology, language and gender, and social history of Eastern Europe.

The book The Politics of Gender After Socialism by Susan Gal and Gail Kligman won the 2001 Heldt Prize, awarded by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.[2] In 2002 Gal was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the study of language ideologies and political authority during and after socialism.[3]

In 2007 Gal was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[2]

Selected publications

References

  1. "Susan Gal". University of Chicago Department of Anthropology. 2012. Retrieved 2013-02-21.
  2. 1 2 "Laurels to Linguists Archive". Linguistic Society of America. 2012. Retrieved 2013-02-21.
  3. "Susan Gal". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2013. Retrieved 2013-02-21.


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