Susan Gal

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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.{{Cite web|title=Susan Gal |url=http://anthropology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty_member/susan_gal |publisher=University of Chicago Department of Anthropology |year=2012 |accessdate=2013-02-21}} 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.{{Cite web|title=Google Scholar - Susan Gal citations|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,32&q=susan+gal&btnG=|access-date=2022-02-11|website=scholar.google.com}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://anthropology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty_member/susan_gal/|title=Susan Gal|website=Department of Anthropology - University of Chicago|accessdate=September 22, 2018}}{{cite journal |last1=Gal |first1=Susan |title=Peasant Men Can't Get Wives: Language Change and Sex Roles in a Bilingual Community |journal=Language in Society |date=1978 |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=1–16 |doi=10.1017/S0047404500005303 |jstor=4166971 |s2cid=144342959 }} 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.{{cite web|url=https://linguistics.uchicago.edu/faculty/gal|title=Susan Gal|website=Department of Linguistics - University of Chicago|accessdate=September 22, 2018|archive-date=September 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923010017/https://linguistics.uchicago.edu/faculty/gal|url-status=dead}}

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,{{Cite web |title=Susan Gal |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/5035-susan-gal |publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |year=2013 |access-date=2013-02-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130304075659/http://www.gf.org/fellows/5035-susan-gal |archive-date=2013-03-04 }} 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.{{cite web|title=Editorial board|url=https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/15481433/editorial-board/editorial-board|work=American Anthropologist|doi=10.1111/(ISSN)1548-1433|accessdate=April 6, 2019}}

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."{{cite journal|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-linguistics/article/galslanguage-shift-social-determinants-of-linguistic-change-in-bilingual-austria-new-york-academic-press-1979-pp-xii-201/6886CD52F4D00479D814A3EAA5B5E4FE|title=S. Gal Language shift. Social determinants of linguistic change in bilingual Austria. New York: Academic Press, 1979. Pp. xii + 201.|first=Richard|last=Coates|journal=Journal of Linguistics|volume=17|issue=1|pages=131–133|via=Cambridge Core|doi=10.1017/S0022226700006824|year=1981|s2cid=144444713 |url-access=subscription}} 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),{{Cite web|title=Laurels to Linguists Archive |publisher=Linguistic Society of America |url=http://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/laurels-linguists-archive |year=2012|accessdate=2013-02-21}} 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

{{cite book|last=Gal|first=Susan|editor=P. Auer & J.E. Schmidt|title=Language and Space|year=2009|publisher=Mouton de Gruyter|isbn=9783110180022 |pages=33–50|chapter=Language and Political Space}}
{{cite book|last=Gal|first=Susan|editor=K. Brown|title=The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics|year=2006|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-08-044854-1 |chapter=Linguistic Anthropology}}
{{cite journal|last=Gal|first=Susan|title=Language ideologies compared: Metaphors and circulations of public and private|journal=Journal of Linguistic Anthropology|volume=15|issue=1|pages=23–37|year=2005|doi=10.1525/jlin.2005.15.1.23}}
{{cite journal|last=Gal|first=Susan|title=A Semiotics of the Public/Private Distinction|journal=Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies|volume=13|issue=1|pages=77–95|year=2002|doi=10.1215/10407391-13-1-77|s2cid=144808547}}
{{cite book|last1=Gal|first1=Susan|last2=Woolard|first2=Kathryn |authorlink2=Kathryn Woolard|title= Languages and Publics: The Making of Authority|year=2001|location=Manchester|publisher=St. Jerome’s Press|isbn=1900650436}}
{{cite book|last1=Gal|first1=Susan|last2=Kligman|first2=Gail|title=The Politics of Gender After Socialism: A Comparative Historical Essay|year=2000|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=9780691048949}}
{{cite book|last1=Gal|first1=Susan|last2=Kligman|first2=Gail|title=Reproducing Gender: Politics, Publics, and Everyday Life after Socialism|year=2000|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=9780691048680}}
{{cite journal|last1=Gal|first1=Susan|title=Language and Political Economy|year=1989|journal=Annual Review of Anthropology|volume=18|pages=345–367|doi=10.1146/annurev.an.18.100189.002021}}
{{cite book|last1=Gal|first1=Susan|title=Language Shift: Social Determinants of Linguistic Change in Bilingual Austria|year=1979|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=0122737504}}
{{cite journal|last=Gal|first=Susan|title=Peasant men can't get wives: Language change and sex roles in a bilingual community|journal=Language in Society|volume=7|issue=1|pages=1–16|year=1978|doi=10.1017/s0047404500005303|s2cid=144342959 }}

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