Prof. Eva Eckert, Ph.D.

Eva Eckert is Professor of Linguistics. Her areas of academic interest include language contact and loss, immigration and immigrant languages, language atrophy, language and disadvantage, migration history, language policy, nation-building, and language ideology.

Eva Eckert earned her Ph.D. in the University of California in Berkeley, her M.A. at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and her tenure and professorship at Connecticut College where her career developed from 1990 to 2010. At AAU she teaches The Story of Language: Empires, Language and Global English, Intercultural Communication, Language and Power, Psychology: Language and the Mind, and Language Policy at SOH and IRD. She chaired Slavic Studies at Connecticut College for ten years, coordinated the Linguistics program, and developed a Study Away-Teach Away semester in Prague, conducted four times.

She presented papers, organized and chaired panels at the annual conferences of the American Association for Advancement of Slavic Studies, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, and Czechoslovak Society for Arts and Sciences throughout the world. In 2012 she was a Visiting Professor at the Hankuk University for Foreign Studies in Seoul, Korea.

Her books include Stones on the Prairie: Acculturation in America (Slavica Publishers, 2007); Kameny na prérii: Čeští vystěhovalci v Texasu (NLN 2004); and Varieties of Czech: Studies in Czech Sociolinguistics (Rodopi Editions, Amsterdam/ Atlanta, 1993).

Her articles appeared in various Routledge journals, Journal of Slavic Linguistics, Český lid, Dějiny a současnost, etc. She contributed entries to encyclopedias (such as that of Czech language), and edited and co-edited sociolinguistic volumes. Her most recent publications include Changing the Map, Changing Identity: Immigration, Language and Conflicting Ideologies, in Changing World Language Map, Springer (2017); The Power of Language, Learning and Socialization: Romani and Ebonics, Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, Routledge Publ. (in print); Romani in the Czech Sociolinguistic Space and Introduction, in Special Issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language 238: Multilingualism and minorities in the Czech sociolinguistic space, eds. Lida Cope &Eva Eckert, Routledge Publ.; Atrofie and Czech Language in the U.S. In Marek Nekula (ed.), Encyklopedie češtiny, Brno: Masaryk University; American Ethnicity and Czech Immigrants’ Integration in Texas: Cemetery Data, Journal Studia Migracyjne-Przeglad Polonijny 4; Language planning for Romani in the Czech Republic, Current Issues in Language Planning 16/1-2, 80-96.

Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Immigration, Language Contact, Nationalism and Nation Building, Language Policy and Ideology