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.[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]
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] She received the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.[6]
Honors and awards
Gal co-authored Signs of Difference: Language and Ideology in Social Life (2019)[7] with Judith T. Irvine. The book received the Edward Sapir Prize from the Society for Linguistic Anthropology in 2021.
Gal received the Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 2002 for the study of language ideologies and political authority during and after socialism,[8] 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.[9]
Gal is a member of the editorial board of American Anthropologist.[10]
