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Susan Gal

Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, and of Social Sciences in the College; Director, Center for Eastern European, Russian and Eurasian Studies Susan Gal

Area of Study

Department of Anthropology

Susan Gal

Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, and of Social Sciences in the College; Director, Center for Eastern European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Professor Gal is presently doing research on the political economy of language, including linguistic nationalism, language and gender, and especially the rhetorical and symbolic aspects of political transformation in contemporary eastern Europe and post socialism generally. Her work focuses as well on the construction of gender and discourses of reproduction.

Read more about Professor Gal here.