Susan Gal

Susan Gal
Born	1949 (age 75–76)
Education	Barnard College (B.A.) University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.)
Occupations	Anthropologist linguist professor

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.[5]

In 2007 Gal was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[7]

Gal is a member of the editorial board of American Anthropologist.[8]

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."[9] 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),[7] 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

• Gal, Susan (2009). "Language and Political Space". In P. Auer & J.E. Schmidt (ed.). Language and Space. Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 33–50. ISBN 9783110180022.
• Gal, Susan (2006). "Linguistic Anthropology". In K. Brown (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-08-044854-1.
• Gal, Susan (2005). "Language ideologies compared: Metaphors and circulations of public and private". Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 15 (1): 23–37. doi:10.1525/jlin.2005.15.1.23.
• Gal, Susan (2002). "A Semiotics of the Public/Private Distinction". Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. 13 (1): 77–95. doi:10.1215/10407391-13-1-77. S2CID 144808547.
• Gal, Susan; Woolard, Kathryn (2001). Languages and Publics: The Making of Authority. Manchester: St. Jerome’s Press. ISBN 1900650436.
• Gal, Susan; Kligman, Gail (2000). The Politics of Gender After Socialism: A Comparative Historical Essay. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691048949.
• Gal, Susan; Kligman, Gail (2000). Reproducing Gender: Politics, Publics, and Everyday Life after Socialism. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691048680.
• Gal, Susan (1989). "Language and Political Economy". Annual Review of Anthropology. 18: 345–367. doi:10.1146/annurev.an.18.100189.002021.
• Gal, Susan (1979). Language Shift: Social Determinants of Linguistic Change in Bilingual Austria. Academic Press. ISBN 0122737504.
• Gal, Susan (1978). "Peasant men can't get wives: Language change and sex roles in a bilingual community". Language in Society. 7 (1): 1–16. doi:10.1017/s0047404500005303. S2CID 144342959.

References

1. "Susan Gal". University of Chicago Department of Anthropology. 2012. Retrieved 2013-02-21.
2. "Google Scholar - Susan Gal citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
3. "Susan Gal". Department of Anthropology - University of Chicago. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
4. Gal, Susan (1978). "Peasant Men Can't Get Wives: Language Change and Sex Roles in a Bilingual Community". Language in Society. 7 (1): 1–16. doi:10.1017/S0047404500005303. JSTOR 4166971. S2CID 144342959.
5. "Susan Gal". Department of Linguistics - University of Chicago. Archived from the original on September 23, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
6. "Susan Gal". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-03-04. Retrieved 2013-02-21.
7. "Laurels to Linguists Archive". Linguistic Society of America. 2012. Retrieved 2013-02-21.
8. "Editorial board". American Anthropologist. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1548-1433. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
9. Coates, Richard (1981). "S. Gal Language shift. Social determinants of linguistic change in bilingual Austria. New York: Academic Press, 1979. Pp. xii + 201". Journal of Linguistics. 17 (1): 131–133. doi:10.1017/S0022226700006824. S2CID 144444713 – via Cambridge Core.