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Assoc Prof Zuckermann's research focuses on language, culture and identity. He analyses language contact and the ways in which languages emerge and evolve. Ghil'ad Zuckermann is Associate Professor and ARC Discovery Fellow at UQ. He has been Gulbenkian Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, and has been affiliated with the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Studies, University of Cambridge.
After studying at the United World College of the Adriatic (Collegio del Mondo Unito dell'Adriatico; Duino, Trieste) and performing several years of military service, he was selected for the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Programme for Outstanding Students of Tel Aviv University, where he studied philosophy, psychology, classics, literature, law and mathematics, and specialized in linguistics, receiving his MA (97%, summa cum laude) from the Department of Linguistics in 1997. As Scatcherd European Scholar of the University of Oxford and Denise Skinner Graduate Scholar of St Hugh's College, Oxford, he gained his DPhil (Oxon) in 2000.
He has published in English, Israeli ('Ivrit'), Italian, Yiddish, Spanish, German and Russian. His book Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew came out with Palgrave Macmillan in 2003, and Israelit Safa Yafa (Israeli, a Beautiful Language) is in press (2008) with Am Oved. He is currently preparing two further volumes: (1) Language Genesis and Multiple Causation, and (2) Language, Religion and Identity.
Assoc Prof Zuckermann has taught various undergraduate and graduate courses at different universities in the UK, USA, Singapore and Israel. He has been research fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Study and Conference Center (Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy), Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (University of Texas at Austin), Research Centre for Linguistic Typology (Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe University) and Kokuritu Kokugo Kenkyuuzyo (National Language Research Institute, Tokyo). He has held a range of fellowships and scholarships, including a British Academy Research Grant, Memorial Foundation of Jewish Culture Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harold Hyam Wingate Scholarship, British Chevening Scholarship and DAAD.
He has delivered keynote speeches, other conference papers and invited public lectures in Ann Arbor (Michigan), Armidale, Atlanta (Georgia), Auckland (NZ), Austin (Texas), Bangkok, Beer Sheva, Beijing, Bellagio, Bergamo, Berkeley (California), Bloomington (Indiana), Boston (Massachusetts), Boulder (Colorado), Brisbane, Cambridge, Christchurch (NZ), Dunedin (NZ), Gainesville (Florida), Haifa, Hamilton (NZ), Hong Kong, Honolulu, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Jinan (China), Kfar Saba, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Melbourne, Miami (Florida), Moscow, Munich, Nanjing (China), New Brunswick (New Jersey), New York City, Orlando (Florida), Oxford, Princeton (New Jersey), Roehampton (UK), San Diego (California), Santiago de Cuba, Shanghai, Singapore, Stanford (California), Sydney, Tampa (Florida), Tel Aviv, Tempe (Arizona), Tianjin (China), Tiv`on, Tucson (Arizona), Tokyo, Vilnius and Wellington (NZ).
Assoc Prof Zuckermann has been an invited speaker on various TV and radio programmes in Israel (e.g. Channel 2, YES, Channel 10) and Australia (e.g. four ABC Lingua Franca programmes, various SBS interviews in Israeli, Yiddish, Italian and English, 6PR Perth, 3ZZZ Melbourne), and has featured in many newspaper articles in the USA (e.g. The Forward), Israel (e.g. Maariv, YNet, Haaretz) and Australia (e.g. Courier Mail).
In 1993-6 he taught preparatory courses for various psychometric examinations and co-authored several books in this field. Other interests include opera (in particular Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti and Mozart), film, photography, poetry, constrained literature, paleo-anthropology and human migration, cultural immersion through travel, and world politics.
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Social Sciences: Phonology, Social Sciences: Semantics, Geographical: Middle/Near East, Social Sciences: Jewish Studies, Social Sciences: Sociology of Language, Social Sciences: Linguistics/Philology, Geographical: Israel, Social Sciences: Aboriginal Studies, Social Sciences: Islamic Studies, Humanities: Chinese Language/Literature, Humanities: Southeast Asian Languages/Literature, Humanities: Slavic Language/Literature, Humanities: Russian Language/Literature, Humanities: Philosophy of Language, Humanities: Modern History, Humanities: Latin American Languages/Literature, Humanities: Language and/or Literature, Esperanto, Humanities: Language and/or Literature, Classical Latin, Humanities: Language and/or Literature, Classical Greek, Humanities: Jewish History, Humanities: Japanese Language/Literature, Humanities: Italian Language/Literature, Humanities: Icelandic Language/Literature, Humanities: German Language/Literature, Humanities: English Language/Literature, Humanities: Culture, Humanities: Cultural Studies, Humanities: Cultural History, Humanities: Comparative Religion, Humanities: Asian Languages/Literature, Humanities: Arabic Language/Literature, Humanities: ARTS/HUMANITIES/CULTURAL ACTIVITIES, Humanities: Yiddish Language/Literature, Humanities: Hebrew Language/Literature, Geographical: International Affairs, Social Sciences: Globalization, Social Sciences: American Studies, Geographical: New Zealand, Geographical: Poland, Geographical: Estonia, Education: Educational Testing/Measurement, Social Sciences: Human Learning and Memory, Social Sciences: Political History, Education: Politics of Education, Social Sciences: Anthropology, Geographical: Lebanon, Social Sciences: Cultural/Social Anthropology, Social Sciences: Cross-Cultural Studies, Science and Technology: Logic, Social Sciences: Linguistic Geography, Social Sciences: Turkish Studies, Geographical: Taiwan (Nationalist China), Education: Public Education, Social Sciences: Psycholinguistics, Humanities: Philosophy, Social Sciences: Syntax, Humanities: Medieval Studies, Humanities: Medieval History, Education: Foreign Languages Education, Medical: Dyslexia, Education: English as a Second Language, Social Sciences: Language Acquisition and Development, Social Sciences: Planning/Policy Studies, Social Sciences: Nationalism, Social Sciences: National Planning/Policy, Social Sciences: Migration |
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