Susan Gal is Mae and Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Chicago. Her work explores the links between language and society with methods that are both linguistic anthropological and sociocultural. Gal's work has focused on the linguistic and sociolinguistic processes of language shift, maintenance, and revitalization in minority communities in Eastern Europe (Language Shift, 1979). She has also written comparatively about links among language, ethnicity, and gender politics, as well as the ways political rhetoric shapes social change. Most recently, her work on ideologies of social and linguistic differentiation theorizes the semiotic relations between linguistic variation, language change and political economy (Signs of Difference, 2019).

To learn more about Susan Gal's research and publications, please visit her faculty page at the Department of Anthropology here.