Curriculum Vitae SUSAN GAL Mae and Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor Anthropology, Linguistics, the College ADDRESS: Department of Anthropology University of Chicago 1126 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637 [email protected] 773 702 2551 EDUCATION: PhD University of California, Berkeley 1976, Anthropology M.A. University of California, Berkeley 1971, Anthropology B.A. Barnard College, Columbia University 1970, cum laude Anthropology and Psychology EMPLOYMENT: 2015-2019 Director, Center for Eastern European, Russian and Eurasian Studies 2004 Mae and Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics, the College U. of Chicago 1999-02 Chair, Department of Anthropology, U. of Chicago 1994 Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Chicago 1993-94 Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University Director, Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University 1986-88 Director, Program in Linguistics, Rutgers University 1986 Visiting Associate Professor, Princeton University 1982-93 Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University 1977-82 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University 1976-77 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Psycholinguistics, Psychology Department, University of California, Berkeley, NIMH AWARDS, GRANTS, HONORS: 2018 John J. Gumperz Memorial Lecture, UC Santa Barbara 2017 Bauman Lecture in Linguistic Anthropology, Indiana University 2016 Arany János Award for Lifetime Achievement in Scholarship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Committee on Hungarian Research Abroad) 2014 Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring 2013 Carroll D. Clark Lecture in Anthropology, University of Kansas, Lawrence Kansas 1 2013 Iris Marion Young Distinguished Lecture, Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies University of Chicago 2010 Simon Distinguished Visitor, Anthropology Department, University of Manchester, UK 2009 Daphne Berdahl Memorial Lecture at the University of Minnesota. 2007 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2006 Center for International Studies Grant to support UChicago and UMichigan linguistic anthropology faculty seminar for two years. 2005 SSRC International Scholars Fellowship. 2004-5 Provost’s Grant, Univ of Chicago, Computational Enhancement of Teaching: Analysis of Conversation in Linguistic Anthropology 2002-4 Wenner-Gren Grant for Univ. of Chicago and University of Michigan Faculty Seminars on Linguistic Anthropology (with Michael Silverstein). 2004 Fellow at the Collegium Budapest Center for Advanced Study, Budapest Hungary. July-August-September. 2002 Rockefeller Fellowship to Bellagio Center, Italy (July) 2002 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship “Language ideologies and political authority during and after socialism.” 2002 Invitation to Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, (deferred). 2000 Heldt Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies for book: Politics of Gender After Socialism 1997 Research Grant, MacArthur Foundation "Gender and Social Transformation: State Contraction in East and West" (with Gail Kligman) 1995 Conference Grant "Closing conference for Women, Gender, and the Transition in Eastern Europe." (with Gail Kligman) ACLS and Open Society Institute 1994 Research Grant "Gender in the Hungarian Transition" (with Katalin Kovács and Joanna Goven) Wenner-Gren Foundation. 1994 Research Grant "Women, Gender and the Transition: The Politics of Reproduction in Eastern Europe – A Comparative Study" (with Gail Kligman) Soros Foundation. 1993 Conference Grant "Women, Gender and the Transition" (with Gail Kligman) ACLS. 1993 Rockefeller Fellowship Grant awarded to Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture (three years of support for two institutional fellowships a year) (applied as Director, with Bruce Robbins and Neil Smith). 1992 Conference Grant "Intellectuals in Political Life: East and West," SSRC. 1991 Faculty Service Award, Rutgers (merit raise) 1990 Fulbright Fellowship for Research (Hungary) 1989 Research Grant, Rutgers Research Council 1986 American Council for Learned Societies, Senior Fellowship (one year leave). 1986 Research Grant, Rutgers Research Council 1981 Research Grant, National Science Foundation "Social Function in Language Change." 1976 Dissertation Prize, Joint Committee on Eastern Europe of the ACLS and SSRC. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: 2017- Editorial Board of J of Sociolinguistics, Language in Society 2016- Advisory Board, Neubauer Collegium, University of Chicago 2 2016- Editorial Board of American Anthropologist, Anthropological Theory 2015-18 Chair, Advisory Board, Institute for Advanced Study, Central European Univ. 2014- Editorial Board of Intersections:East European Journal of Society and Politics Hungarian Academy of Sciences 2012- 14 Member, Selection Committee, Institute for Advanced Study, Central European U. 2011- Editorial Board of J of English as a Lingua Franca (Vienna) 2010- Member, Babylon Center for Diversity in Society, Tilburg, Netherlands 2008-12 Editorial Board of Annual Review of Anthropology 2008- Editorial Board of Magyar Nyelv 2008-21 Editorial Board of Slavic Review 2008-14 Editorial Board of American Ethnologist 2004-11 Editorial Board of Gender and Language 2004- Editorial Board of Uralica Nova (journal of Uralic Studies, University of Vienna) 2004-17 Editorial Board of Intercultural Pragmatics 2003- Editorial Board of East European Politics and Societies 2003-17 Advisory Board of Critical Discourse Studies 2002-11 Editorial Board of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 2001-03 Review Panel for Wenner-Gren Foundation 1999-01 President of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology 1996-15 Editorial Board of Social Politics: International Studies Gender, State, Society. 1996-8 Member, Advisory Board, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research 1990-5 Member, Joint Committee on Eastern Europe of the ACLS-SSRC 1994-98 Editorial Board of Public Culture 1993-95 Member, Ethics Committee of the AAA 1991 Member, Anthropology, Linguistics, Sociology Panel of NSF Grad Fellowship Program 1990-95 Editorial Board, Language in Society 1990-95 Editorial Board, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 1990-96 Editorial Board, Cultural Anthropology 1990-2 Chair, Nominations Committee, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, AAA 1989-92 Member, Advisory Panel on Linguistics, NSF 1989-92 Member at Large, Society for Anthro of Europe, AAA 1980- Editorial Referee: American Anthropologist, Current Anthropology, Language, J of Ling. Anthropology, Language in Society, American Ethnologist, J. of Greek Studies, Critique of Anthropology, Anthropological Quarterly, Pragmatics (among others). 1980- Grants Reviewer: NSF, NEH, Wenner-Gren, Canada, Council, Fulbright, Soros Foundation (among others). PUBLICATIONS: Books and Special Issues: 2019 Signs of Difference: Language and Ideology in Social Life (co-authored with Judith T. Irvine) Cambridge University Press. 3 2018 A Nyelv Politikája: Antropológiai nyelvészeti tanulmányok. Susan Gal válogatott írásai magyar nyelven. [Language's Politics: Linguistic Anthropological Studies: Susan Gal’s Selected Wrtings in Hungarian]. eds. Ildikó Vancó and István Kozmách. Nyitra, Slovakia: University of Nyitra Press. 2015 [2001] Languages and Publics: The Making of Authority. New York: Routledge. (co- edited with Kathryn A. Woolard). Re-issued. 2006 (ed.) Gender and Circulation in East European Politics and Societies. (Special Issue) East European Politics and Societies. Vol. 20:1:1-180. 2000 The Politics of Gender After Socialism. Princeton University Press. (co-authored with Gail Kligman) [Winner of the Heldt Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2000; Romanian translation: 2003] 2000 (co-editor with Gail Kligman) Reproducing Gender Politics, Publics and Everyday Life After Socialism. Princeton U. [Translated into Romanian 2002]. 1979 Language Shift: Social Determinants of Linguistic Change in Bilingual Austria. Academic Press: New York. [Sections of this book continue to be excerpted in textbooks: R. Fasold (1984) The Sociolinguistics of Society, Blackwell; K. Hakuta 1986) Mirror of Language, Basic Books; S. Barbour and P. Stevenson (1990) Variation in German, Cambridge; R. Holmes (1999) An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Longman; R Mesthrie, J Swann, A Deumert and W Leap Introducing Sociolinguistics, 2nd edition (2008)] Articles/Chapters: 2019 Making registers in politics: Circulation and ideologies of linguistic authority. Journal of Sociolinguistics 1-17. 2018 Discursive struggles about migration: A commentary. Language and Communication. 59:66-69. 2018 Ideología de la lengua y diferenciación linguística,” IN E. Cerón (ed.) Ideologías, Linguísticas, Politica e Identidad: Cuatro Ensazos de Linguística. Veracruz, Mexico: Universidad Veracruzana: Veracruz, Mexico (transl. of Irvine & Gal 2000.) 2018 Registers in circulation: The social organization of interdiscursivity. Signs and Society 6:1:1-24. (Papers in honor of Michael Silverstein) 2017 Qualia as value and knowledge: Histories of European porcelain. Signs and Society 5:1:128-153 (Special issue) 2017 Visions and revisions of minority languages: Standardization and its dilemmas. IN P. Lane and J. Costa (eds.) Standardizing minority languages in the global periphery: 4 competing ideologies of authority and authenticity. Routledge. Pp. 222-242. 2016 Language and political economy: An afterword. HAU: A Journal of Ethnographic Theory