Gudrun Dahl

{{Short description|Swedish social anthropologist}}

Gudrun Dahl (born 3 April 1948 in Enskede, Sweden) is a Swedish social anthropologist. She grew up in Stockholm and Gothenburg. Since 1989 she has been a professor at Stockholm University,{{Cite web|url=https://www.ne.se/uppslagsverk/encyklopedi/l%C3%A5ng/gudrun-dahl|title=Gudrun Dahl - Uppslagsverk - NE.se|website=www.ne.se|language=sv|access-date=2017-11-26}} and is currently a professor emerita. Her current research interests lie in "[m]oral arguments in environmental work."{{Cite web|url=http://www.socant.su.se/english/research/our-researchers/gudrun-dahl|title=Gudrun Dahl|website=www.socant.su.se|language=en|access-date=2017-11-26}}

Professor Dahl has published several books, including Having Herds: Pastoral Herd Growth and Household Economy and Suffering Grass: Subsistence and Society of Waso Borana.{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=Gudrun+Dahl|title=Results for 'Gudrun Dahl' [WorldCat.org]|website=www.worldcat.org|language=en|access-date=2017-11-26}}

She is the daughter of the Swedish geographer Sven Dahl (1912–1979), who himself was the son of the Swedish professor Carl G. Dahl, a pomologist, and Sven's wife, the genealogist Olga Dahl. Her brother, Östen, is also a professor emeritus at Stockholm University, where he teaches linguistics.